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Jan 14, 2021 11:47 AM
Kentucky House Speaker David Osbourne (R-Prospect) this week said the House of Representatives will send a citizen’s petition calling for the impeachment of Rep. Robert Goforth (R-East Bernstadt) to the same impeachment committee investigating a petition to impeach Gov. Andy Beshear, according to the Lexington Herald Leader. The committee was formed because state law requires the Speaker of the House to form an impeachment committee once petitions are filed by members of the public. Rep. Goforth challenged and lost to sitting Republican then-Governor Matt Bevin in the 2019 gubernatorial primary. Rep. Goforth was indicted in September on charges of assault and strangulation. He easily won re-election in November with nearly 71 percent of the vote. The newspaper reports that Wednesday’s petition against Rep. Goforth is a political repercussion of Speaker Osbourne’s formation of an impeachment committe