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FRANKFORT, Ky. - With a bust in the balance, Kentucky's governor is siding with Colonel Sanders over Pamela Anderson. Gov. Ernie Fletcher wrote the "Stacked" actress to say a bust of the KFC founder will stay in the Kentucky Capitol, despite Anderson's claim that Sanders is a symbol of cruelty to chickens.

"Colonel Sanders remains a Kentucky icon," Fletcher wrote last week. "His success story has been an inspiration to many. The industry he began has employed hundreds of thousands of workers over the years. His business and his legacy have been good for Kentucky."

Anderson has been involved in a public relations campaign with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to raise awareness of what she calls abuse of chickens in processing plants that supply poultry to the Louisville-based chicken chain.

She responded to the governor's decision in a letter Tuesday, saying Sanders' chief legacy is a company "that mutilates God's creatures."

In her letters to Fletcher, the 38-year-old actress has detailed alleged abuses of chickens by KFC suppliers. Among her claims, she said workers in a slaughterhouse in West Virginia have been filmed tearing the heads off live birds, spitting tobacco in their eyes and boiling the chickens alive in tanks of scalding water.

KFC has called Anderson's attack on Sanders a misguided publicity stunt.

Fletcher was courteous in his letter, thanking Anderson for her comments. "I hope you will feel free to contact me any time an issue is important to you," he wrote.

The white-bearded, bolo-tied Harland Sanders, who died in 1980 at age 90, began the Kentucky Fried Chicken empire more than six decades ago from his own kitchen in rural Corbin, serving a few hungry travelers who stopped in his service station. Now, KFC restaurants serve more than a billion chicken dinners a year around the world.

It's official. Pamela has lost her f'ing mind!

I must be in the minority, but I actual agree with Anderson on SOME of the things she has said in her battle against KFC.

It has been proven the abuse and inhumane way that KFC has treated the chickens they use.

Hell....she said at one point that she and a group were going to rally in front of KFC and hand out buckets of blood to small children to show them the gortesqueness of killing chickens for humna consumption.

The lady is whack!

This was all over the news here the other day. I live in Kentucky and KFC and Col. Sanders are BIG here. While, I don't personally like the Governor here (he's a Republican and I'm a Democrat), I do have to agree with his decision that Col. Sanders is a Kentucky icon. There is even an organization, The Kentucky Colonels, that is named after him here. I also agree that KFC may not kill chickens in a humane fashion. I can see both sides of this argument.

As for Pamela Anderson, she may be a little odd, but she's no Anna Nicole Smith.

How odd. I live in Frankfort and this is the first I've heard of this. And, yes, in general, I think Fletcher is an idiot. You should try working a party full of KY politicos. It's inbreed hillybilly politicians for days.

How odd. I live in Frankfort and this is the first I've heard of this. And, yes, in general, I think Fletcher is an idiot. You should try working a party full of KY politicos. It's inbreed hillybilly politicians for days.

It was on the news here one day last week. I caught the tail end of it on one of the Louisville stations. And, so true about Fletcher. He is a complete idiot, espicially after all the scandal he has been involved in recently. And then attending the invitation-only speech Bush gave in Louisville a few weeks back...it was dumb and dumber.

I have one thing to say about Fletcher --- noodling. The dumbest speech given in the history of politics *ever*. I swear the man was a Muppet in a former life.

I have one thing to say about Fletcher --- noodling. The dumbest speech given in the history of politics *ever*. I swear the man was a Muppet in a former life.

Ah yes, his 'State of the Commonwealth' Address the other night. A person could get more out of a speech by Bush, he's just that boring.