In the final, gasping hours of the 2026 Kentucky General Assembly — via free conference committee — House Bill 757 required “the state curator to accept a statute, monument, or object to art that is privately funded and created depicting or representing United States Senator Addison Mitchell McConnell for display in the New State Capitol rotunda.” And Senate President Robert Stivers said, “For the last almost 40 years, he’s been the most significant political figure in this state.” For...