From Courier-Journal.com:

But it still seemed a bit out of place when Attorney General Jack Conway, thundering away at the notoriously loud and uncivil crowd at the state’s premier annual political event — held at St. Jerome Catholic Church — told them to go ahead and make noise.

“Go ahead and chew on my hide … it only grows back tougher,” Conway told the crowd, ostensibly quoting retired Sen. Wendell Ford, who is a legend in these parts. “You’re looking at one tough son of a bitch.”

Conway grew up in Louisville’s Catholic community, where even among the very religious, an occasional curse word or two really doesn’t faze folks. It wouldn’t be surprising if he heard one of the Xaverian brothers at St. Xavier High School use similar language — I did when I went through a few years earlier.

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