As Andy Beshear walked into Bub’s Cafe in Elizabethtown, dozens of supporters packed into the restaurant greeted him by cheering and holding up campaign signs. The current attorney general and Democratic candidate for Kentucky governor was joined by the slate of Democratic candidates running for statewide offices.
“Fired up?” he asked his supporters as he entered the restaurant. They cheered in the affirmative.
The group is traveling throughout the state as Election Day approaches. Beshear was joined by his running mate, Jacqueline Coleman, attorney general candidate Greg Stumbo, secretary of state candidate Heather French Henry, auditor candidate Sheri Donahue, state treasurer candidate Michael Bowman, and ag commissioner candidate Robert Conway. The group visited New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Radcliff before coming to Elizabethtown, and attracted about 80 people at each stop.
The candidates began their remarks by encouraging people to vote Tuesday.
“We can be behind TV cameras and behind a computer and sitting on our couch talking about all kinds of politics, but it doesn’t mean anything if we don’t get to that ballot box,” Bowman said.
The Democratic slate also promoted each other and asked the voters to cast straight-ticket ballots.
“This Democratic ticket will fight for a government that works for all Kentuckians,” Donahue said.
The candidates didn’t waste the opportunity to criticize Gov. Matt Bevin over a plethora of issues.
“We have a governor that has attacked and bullied our teachers and is trying to tear down our system of public education,” Beshear said. “The future of health care, especially rural health care, is on the line with a governor whose policies would shut down our rural hospitals. In the next five days, we’ve got to beat him. The future and security of the pensions for our most trusted public servants is on the line because, in those debates, he says, yes, he’s going to privatize them.”
A Kentucky native, Beshear is the son of Bevin’s predecessor, Steve Beshear. The attorney general and governor have had a combative relationship, with Beshear suing Bevin over numerous laws and actions during their tenures.
After Hardin County, the Democratic slate also visited Campbellsville, Lebanon, and Springfield on Thursday. Statewide Republican candidates held a similar campaign stop in Elizabethtown last week.
The election is Tuesday. Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time.
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Written by Trey Crumbie. Cross-posted from the
News-Enterprise via the Kentucky Press News Service.