Letters to the Editor: Readers weigh in on Kentucky’s primary election
Hicks best choice
Democratic candidate Josh Hicks is the best choice to represent Kentucky’s 6th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. For too long Rep. Andy Barr has avoided taking on key issues that have affected Kentuckians, opting instead to take money from large corporations and advancing their interests. We need a candidate with a working class background who understands the issues in Kentucky, and Josh is the best candidate to fill that role.
Josh is a proponent of keeping and expanding the Affordable Care Act, something Barr voted to strip from millions of Americans. Josh also supports a public option to buy into Medicare as well as establishing a system that covers people with preexisting conditions.
Josh also supports providing broadband to rural areas of Kentucky, something that is desperately needed.
He is a former Marine, police officer, and now a lawyer in Lexington. If Kentucky wants change, it’s imperative that we elect Josh Hicks.
Willie Vega, Lexington
Kentucky advocate
Andy Barr must go. Congressman Barr and Sen. Mitch McConnell have hurt, hindered, and damaged Kentucky long enough.
The list is endless: voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act, taking money from corporate PACs, representing the big corporate donors, and ignoring the needs of rural Kentucky.
Josh Hicks is the representative Kentucky’s 6th District needs. He will represent all people, in every zip code. Healthcare, education, climate, and jobs are his priorities. It’s not banks, pharmaceuticals, and payday lenders that will be his constituents.
As citizens and consumers, our power is in how and where we spend our money and in casting our vote. To forgo that power is to surrender your power and your rights to those who don’t represent your interest.
It’s time for everyone to stand and be counted. No candidate is perfect and we can’t agree on everything. But Josh Hicks is a good, honorable man who is running for Congress for the right reason.
It’s time for a representative with a soul and conscience.
Mary F. McCall, Lexington
Gibson dedicated
Bob Gibson, Democratic candidate for the 56th District state House seat, has a history of community involvement that has spanned decades and has been a lifelong public servant as an educator in Woodford County Public Schools. When I was the dive coach for Woodford County High School, I worked with Bob, who was then the athletic director. I found him to be supportive, caring, passionate, and incredibly hardworking to ensure that the students were given special opportunities. I admire his work as a teacher, coach, athletic director, assistant principal, and now as chief information officer. His commitment to the 56th District is demonstrable and I believe that Kentucky needs his leadership as a state representative.
James (Jamie) Palumbo, Lexington
Fogle experienced
I urge my fellow 9th District voters to choose Willy Fogle as their next Lexington council member.
In addition to being a former council member, Willy has also served as an aide in the mayor’s office and served as council aide to my late husband, former council member Julian Beard.
Willy understands the ins and outs of the complex issues facing our city and is a truly dedicated community servant.
He will lead not by trying to solve pressing issues on his own but instead by collaborating with his council colleagues, our mayor, city staff, and key community leaders to achieve positive results.
In a time where politics are divisive, Willy Fogle can be counted on to build working relationships to help Lexington be the best it can be.
Lynn Beard, Lexington
‘New vision’
2020 has been a year unlike any other and this coming election in November may be one for the history books. Kentucky has the opportunity to shake up the United States Senate down to its very core.
Democratic candidate Charles Booker offers a new vision and new ideas to reimagine a prosperous, sustainable, and just Kentucky. Sen. Mitch McConnell has served for too long and become one of the richest senators at the expense of hardworking Kentuckians. He is the chief obstructionist, the barricade against progress, and must be removed.
Booker supports policies that will benefit Kentuckians and the nation, not the corporate elite. He offers the change that the United States and Kentucky desperately needs; Mitch only offers the status quo.
Send Booker to the U.S Senate and end McConnell’s era of obstructionism.
Robert Craycraft, Versailles