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The candidates for Kentucky governor debated live on WLWT Friday night.Gov. Matt Bevin (R) and Attorney General Andy Beshear (D) both participated in the live hour-long debate at Northern Kentucky University. REWATCH THE DEBATE IN THE PLAYER ABOVE The format consisted of opening statements, followed by questions from WLWT anchor Sheree Paolello. Candidates rotated the order of answers, concluding with closing statements from each candidate. This debate is hosted by Northern Kentucky University and presented by WLWT News 5, in partnership with Presenting Regional PartnersABOUT THE CANDIDATE: Gov. Matt BevinKentucky voters will decide if they’ll keep Gov. Matt Bevin in office for another four years or if they’ll go with the son of the governor who preceded him.Bevin spoke about the upcoming election at the Enzweiler Building Institute in Erlanger, one of two groundbreakings he attended in Northern Kentucky.He arrived having slipped from a dubious distinction. According to one poll, he is no longer America’s most unpopular governor.Bevin now ranks second to a Rhode Island Democrat in that category.He wore the designation as a badge of pride, shrugging with his eyes and saying: “They’re all the opinion of whoever puts the poll out. What matters is, is our state doing better?”Bevin says he is feeling momentum in the home stretch of his reelection campaign.He presides over an economically energetic time in Kentucky where the jobless rate is 4 percent.The governor joined federal, state and local officials and area business leaders to break ground on the newest airport in Sparta, the state’s 58th general aviation airport.According to a news release, it’s the first local airport to serve the business needs of the Interstate 71 corridor from Louisville to Cincinnati.Then, after a symbolic groundbreaking for job training purposes at the Enzweiler event, Bevin laid out his case to us for making Kentucky the center of manufacturing and engineering.”I’d like to see us start to do things from east to west, north to south. Big projects like the Brent Spence, but other projects that touch every single county in Kentucky.”As for what holds us back, he stated, “It’s dollars and it’s conviction.”Bevin said the makeup of the legislature is changing and he expects it will develop the conviction to support tolls and gas taxes in conjunction with government funding to finally get a replacement bridge, noting: “It’s not going to get built on my watch. But it will get started. It will get underway.”Bevin said elected leaders need to have a vision for long after they’re out of office, and implement it.”It’s the ability of men and women to think beyond their immediate next election cycle but think about what’s good for our state 20 and 50 years from now.”He encouraged youth at the event about the skills they’ll develop, knowing two weeks from now, he’ll either remain their governor or revert to his business roots as Andy Beshear becomes Kentucky’s 63rd governor.He warned business leaders that the Bluegrass state would be sitting on its hands again if another Beshear ascends to the state’s highest office.”The more likely would be that those hands wouldn’t be sat on, they’d be in your pockets,” he said in reference to spending and higher taxes and what he described as greasing the wheels of cohorts.Bevin styles himself as Trumpian in approach.The president and vice president will campaign for him in the Bluegrass state right before the vote.”Think about this,” he said earnestly. “We’ve never in the history of Kentucky ever even had a seated president visit more than once. President Trump has already been here four times. He’s coming back for the fifth time. He’s been the president three years. It’s not ’cause we’re a swing state. It’s not because we have so many electoral votes. The same with the vice president. He’s been here multiple times. He and I have been friends since he was the governor of Indiana. And I’m just grateful to have them here. It’s good for us.”We asked Bevin what he thinks about the heat Trump is getting for describing the impeachment inquiry as the political equivalent of a lynching.Here is how he put it. “We’ve become so hyper-sensitive to the use of vocabulary. The reality is that’s an actual word with actual meaning. It has a very connotative connection to a dark and brutal time in our society. It was very racially tinged, the word is. But the word is bigger than just that. If you want to assume that that’s all that it means then you could assume that but that would not be correct. And so for him to be getting grief over that, I mean, give me a break.”In a half-joking, half-serious manner, Bevin described being governor to a roomful of business and government folks as “the crappiest job I’ve ever had”.When the laughter subsided, he added he is grateful for it and serious about it. The father of nine said it takes 15 to 20 years to change the culture of a state.He said he wants the days of mocking Kentucky to be over and for its citizens to hold the state up to reveal the potential he believes it has.ABOUT THE CANDIDATE: Attorney General Andy BeshearThe heat in the Kentucky governor’s race is starting to turn higher with just under two weeks to go until the votes are counted.Democrat Andy Beshear was in Northern Kentucky Wednesday afternoon, saying the governor’s office shouldn’t be used to bully people.Beshear strides like he is on the cusp of becoming Kentucky’s 63rd governor and displays no worry lines about how his strong early poll numbers have evaporated into a dead heat.The latest Mason-Dixon poll has both Beshear and Bevin at 46% with 7% undecided.The gloves have come off in the home stretch of the daily campaigning.Bevin described Beshear to us as privileged, corrupt and “the Hunter Biden of the Bluegrass.”Beshear reacted today by saying “That’s not the way a governor should talk or behave. Aren’t we ready for more decency? Aren’t we ready for a governor that doesn’t spend every day attacking people?”The state’s attorney general and son of Bevin’s predecessor is drawing support from teachers who still smolder about last year’s battle with Bevin over the pension.”Our teachers are fired up,” Beshear stated. “They’re fired up because of their students and they’re fired up because they want to protect public education. And I think they’re ready to vote for a ticket that has one of them on it.”That was a reference to Beshear’s running mate for lieutenant governor, Jacqueline Coleman.At an educational session at the Children’s Home of Northern Kentucky, he asked today “And how many of the kids that you’re serving, their families are also on expanded Medicaid?”He was told 85%.Along with preexisting condition, it’s an issue he trumpets as a key difference when measuring Beshear versus Bevin.Beshear dismissed the national focus of this race which he described as Kentucky kitchen table-focused.Trump’s fifth visit to the state on election eve is designed to help push Bevin over the 2019 goal line.”I can tell you all across Kentucky, people who are going to vote for this president, are still ready to vote for this ticket,” saidTrump won the Bluegrass State by 30 points in 2016. His approval rating in Kentucky registers at around 57 percent.He is a big Bevin booster as is Pence, who will also be in to stump for Bevin a few days ahead of the vote.But Beshear believes even those educators who back Trump won’t forget or forgive the insults they say came their way from Bevin.
The candidates for Kentucky governor debated live on WLWT Friday night.
Gov. Matt Bevin (R) and Attorney General Andy Beshear (D) both participated in the live hour-long debate at Northern Kentucky University.
REWATCH THE DEBATE IN THE PLAYER ABOVE
The format consisted of opening statements, followed by questions from WLWT anchor Sheree Paolello. Candidates rotated the order of answers, concluding with closing statements from each candidate.
This debate is hosted by Northern Kentucky University and presented by WLWT News 5, in partnership with Presenting Regional Partners
ABOUT THE CANDIDATE: Gov. Matt Bevin
Kentucky voters will decide if they’ll keep Gov. Matt Bevin in office for another four years or if they’ll go with the son of the governor who preceded him.
Bevin spoke about the upcoming election at the Enzweiler Building Institute in Erlanger, one of two groundbreakings he attended in Northern Kentucky.
He arrived having slipped from a dubious distinction. According to one poll, he is no longer America’s most unpopular governor.
Bevin now ranks second to a Rhode Island Democrat in that category.
He wore the designation as a badge of pride, shrugging with his eyes and saying: “They’re all the opinion of whoever puts the poll out. What matters is, is our state doing better?”
Bevin says he is feeling momentum in the home stretch of his reelection campaign.
He presides over an economically energetic time in Kentucky where the jobless rate is 4 percent.
The governor joined federal, state and local officials and area business leaders to break ground on the newest airport in Sparta, the state’s 58th general aviation airport.According to a news release, it’s the first local airport to serve the business needs of the Interstate 71 corridor from Louisville to Cincinnati.
Then, after a symbolic groundbreaking for job training purposes at the Enzweiler event, Bevin laid out his case to us for making Kentucky the center of manufacturing and engineering.
“I’d like to see us start to do things from east to west, north to south. Big projects like the Brent Spence, but other projects that touch every single county in Kentucky.”
As for what holds us back, he stated, “It’s dollars and it’s conviction.”
Bevin said the makeup of the legislature is changing and he expects it will develop the conviction to support tolls and gas taxes in conjunction with government funding to finally get a replacement bridge, noting: “It’s not going to get built on my watch. But it will get started. It will get underway.”
Bevin said elected leaders need to have a vision for long after they’re out of office, and implement it.
“It’s the ability of men and women to think beyond their immediate next election cycle but think about what’s good for our state 20 and 50 years from now.”
He encouraged youth at the event about the skills they’ll develop, knowing two weeks from now, he’ll either remain their governor or revert to his business roots as Andy Beshear becomes Kentucky’s 63rd governor.
He warned business leaders that the Bluegrass state would be sitting on its hands again if another Beshear ascends to the state’s highest office.
“The more likely would be that those hands wouldn’t be sat on, they’d be in your pockets,” he said in reference to spending and higher taxes and what he described as greasing the wheels of cohorts.
Bevin styles himself as Trumpian in approach.
The president and vice president will campaign for him in the Bluegrass state right before the vote.
“Think about this,” he said earnestly. “We’ve never in the history of Kentucky ever even had a seated president visit more than once. President Trump has already been here four times. He’s coming back for the fifth time. He’s been the president three years. It’s not ’cause we’re a swing state. It’s not because we have so many electoral votes. The same with the vice president. He’s been here multiple times. He and I have been friends since he was the governor of Indiana. And I’m just grateful to have them here. It’s good for us.”
We asked Bevin what he thinks about the heat Trump is getting for describing the impeachment inquiry as the political equivalent of a lynching.
Here is how he put it. “We’ve become so hyper-sensitive to the use of vocabulary. The reality is that’s an actual word with actual meaning. It has a very connotative connection to a dark and brutal time in our society. It was very racially tinged, the word is. But the word is bigger than just that. If you want to assume that that’s all that it means then you could assume that but that would not be correct. And so for him to be getting grief over that, I mean, give me a break.”
In a half-joking, half-serious manner, Bevin described being governor to a roomful of business and government folks as “the crappiest job I’ve ever had”.
When the laughter subsided, he added he is grateful for it and serious about it. The father of nine said it takes 15 to 20 years to change the culture of a state.
He said he wants the days of mocking Kentucky to be over and for its citizens to hold the state up to reveal the potential he believes it has.
ABOUT THE CANDIDATE: Attorney General Andy Beshear
The heat in the Kentucky governor’s race is starting to turn higher with just under two weeks to go until the votes are counted.
Democrat Andy Beshear was in Northern Kentucky Wednesday afternoon, saying the governor’s office shouldn’t be used to bully people.
Beshear strides like he is on the cusp of becoming Kentucky’s 63rd governor and displays no worry lines about how his strong early poll numbers have evaporated into a dead heat.
The latest Mason-Dixon poll has both Beshear and Bevin at 46% with 7% undecided.
The gloves have come off in the home stretch of the daily campaigning.
Bevin described Beshear to us as privileged, corrupt and “the Hunter Biden of the Bluegrass.”
Beshear reacted today by saying “That’s not the way a governor should talk or behave. Aren’t we ready for more decency? Aren’t we ready for a governor that doesn’t spend every day attacking people?”
The state’s attorney general and son of Bevin’s predecessor is drawing support from teachers who still smolder about last year’s battle with Bevin over the pension.
“Our teachers are fired up,” Beshear stated. “They’re fired up because of their students and they’re fired up because they want to protect public education. And I think they’re ready to vote for a ticket that has one of them on it.”
That was a reference to Beshear’s running mate for lieutenant governor, Jacqueline Coleman.
At an educational session at the Children’s Home of Northern Kentucky, he asked today “And how many of the kids that you’re serving, their families are also on expanded Medicaid?”
He was told 85%.
Along with preexisting condition, it’s an issue he trumpets as a key difference when measuring Beshear versus Bevin.
Beshear dismissed the national focus of this race which he described as Kentucky kitchen table-focused.
Trump’s fifth visit to the state on election eve is designed to help push Bevin over the 2019 goal line.
“I can tell you all across Kentucky, people who are going to vote for this president, are still ready to vote for this ticket,” said
Trump won the Bluegrass State by 30 points in 2016. His approval rating in Kentucky registers at around 57 percent.
He is a big Bevin booster as is Pence, who will also be in to stump for Bevin a few days ahead of the vote.
But Beshear believes even those educators who back Trump won’t forget or forgive the insults they say came their way from Bevin.
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