Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers presides over a session at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

For three straight days, Kentucky state Senate President Robert Stivers (R-Manchester) has chastised local news media for being negative about the state’s upper chamber.

Stivers called reporters a “dying breed” on Tuesday for “trying to create division in the state.”

Stivers, who shot down giving teachers raises and implementing universal Pre-K last Saturday, has been the president of the Kentucky Senate since 2013.

Last October, Stivers gave a lengthy statement defending the Electoral College after Gov. Andy Beshear (D) called for repealing the mostly unpopular system. Stivers called the electoral college, a “vital pillar of our Republic” and that “we [Kentucky GOP] reject any attempt to dismantle it.”

Embed: KY Senate Majority on X: “The following statement is in response to @GovAndyBeshear’s call to abolish the Electoral College and may be attributed to @kysenatepres Robert Stivers on behalf of the Senate Majority Caucus. #kyga24 #kyinterim24 https://t.co/OHjZ6Uogne” / X

After Gov. Andy Beshear (D) took office in 2020, Stivers and other Senate Republicans filed legislation to strip power away from the governor’s office. The Kentucky GOP has also repealed many of Beshear’s vetoes in the past and been heavily critical of his positions.

The Kentucky Senate will be in session for 30 days in 2025. The Kentucky GOP has filed bills requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, crack down the release of too many balloons and repeal Beshear’s conversion therapy ban for minors.