Cracks in the reverence of the Constitution and democracy, in the home state of Republican Rand Paul and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, drug money meets vote buying in Creation Museum Land:

....In the Clay County case, former Circuit Court Judge Cletus Maricle, 67, and seven others were convicted in 2010 in a massive vote-buying scheme that ran through several elections... Several convicted major drug dealers testified during the trial about just how easy it was to spread many thousands of dollars around to buy votes.

‘I always bought votes,” Kenneth Day testified.  The 60-year-old was serving 18 years in federal prison for multimillion-dollar drug trafficking. Prosecutors say he dealt in "millions of dollars in drugs, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine” and “had developed one of the most successful drug trafficking businesses in the whole entire region.”....Day was not only an admitted drug trafficker, but he also had served as the longtime Clay County Republican commissioner of the Board of Elections....