Election 2023
Beshear and Cameron release debate schedules ahead of November election
Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron are preparing to face off in a series of gubernatorial debates and forums this fall.? Both campaigns released their upcoming appearance schedule on Friday afternoon, as well as their running mates. Beshear and Cameron first appeared alongside each other this election season at the Fancy […]
Beshear calls for pay raises for officers, more funding for public safety in new budget plan
Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday called for more money for training, body armor and raises for law enforcement in what he says will be the first of several spending plans he’ll announce over the next month. Beshear acknowledged that governors typically reveal budget proposals around the time lawmakers return to Frankfort in January, but said […]
20 minutes — and a world of worry — away from the political theatrics
BARDWELL — Mayor Philip King has a problem. A flash flood on July 19 turned Bardwell’s Front Street into a river and dumped at least seven inches of water on city hall. Spending the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed for repairs would be a waste, he says, because the building would just flood again, […]
What did he say?
FANCY FARM — After the energetic crowd left the Fancy Farm Picnic grounds Saturday, the ramifications of political speeches given are felt throughout the commonwealth.? The headlining speeches, given by incumbent Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron, put a spotlight on the differences between them and what’s at stake for their […]
A Fancy Farm gallery: Stump speaking and heckling. A Kentucky tradition is renewed.
The 143rd Fancy Farm Picnic — a feast for connoisseurs of barbecue and Kentucky politics — is in the history books. After a day of colorful personal interactions with voters and each other, Gov. Andy Beshear and Attorney General Daniel Cameron must now return their attentions to raising vast sums of money to pay for […]
Down ballot Kentucky candidates raise the political heat at Fancy Farm
FANCY FARM — Kentucky Democrats and Republicans running for statewide offices echoed the tops of their tickets while trading jeers and heckles Saturday at the 143rd Fancy Farm Picnic.? While the main spotlight was on gubernatorial candidates Republican Daniel Cameron and Democrat Andy Beshear, their running mates did not waste the opportunity to lodge a […]
Beshear, Cameron face off before a raucous crowd
FANCY FARM — As the sweltering humidity rose, Kentucky’s gubernatorial candidates turned the heat up on each other Saturday afternoon in West Kentucky.? Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron traded barbs and addressed a raucous crowd of supporters and naysayers during the 143rd Fancy Farm Picnic.? Fancy Farm’s political speeches laid […]
McConnell vows this won’t be his last Fancy Farm
MAYFIELD — Nine days after he stopped speaking mid-sentence in a news conference in Washington, D.C., raising concerns about his health, Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell returned to Kentucky to take part in the annual Fancy Farm Picnic — and vowed it wouldn’t be his last. McConell, the Senate’s Republican leader, addressed a crowd at […]
Beshear, Cameron warm up jabs in party gatherings before Fancy Farm main event
MAYFIELD — Republican Daniel Cameron said Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is out of step with Kentucky values as Beshear said “the other side” stands for division and even hate during party gatherings leading up to the main event Saturday afternoon at the Fancy Farm Picnic. Rivals Cameron and Beshear will share a stage for the […]
Weddles found a way to fund Beshear even as campaign contributions were returned
FRANKFORT – As the Kentucky Democratic Party and Gov. Andy Beshear’s campaign were refunding the excess campaign contributions of London Mayor Randall Weddle last spring, Mayor Weddle and his wife found a different avenue for making additional donations to boost Beshear’s reelection chances. Weddle, a Republican, and his wife Victoria contributed $75,000 to the Democratic […]
Fancy Farm Picnic returns to put political spotlight on Western Kentucky
The Fancy Farm Picnic will once again bring Kentucky politicos together this Saturday for fiery stump speeches as well as barbecue and Sun Drop soda. The premier Kentucky political event, which takes place in the Graves County community of Fancy Farm, is a fundraiser for St. Jerome Catholic Church held each August. The Western Kentucky […]
With Beshear absent, Cameron pitches himself as the rural candidate in farmer forum
Values was the word of the day as Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron addressed a crowd of Kentucky Farm Bureau board members and employees in its Measure-the-Candidate forum.? He pitched himself as a politician who embodies rural ideas and criticized the absence of his opponent in the gubernatorial race, incumbent Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.? “Of […]