Tired of yelling at their televisions during the news, four men from Central Kentucky each hope to join Congress to block what they see as President Barack Obama’s socialist, ruinously expensive agenda.
To get there they must face one another and two much-better-funded rivals in the May 18 Republican primary for the 6th Congressional District. The winner has to oust four-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Ben Chandler, D-Versailles, on Nov. 2.
Adding to the challenge, they’re attempting to win with scant campaign funds and without promising to bring projects back from Washington if elected. In fact, they pledge to abolish federal funding for local projects, arguing that the national government already is trillions of dollars in debt.
“We’ll be at political events and sometimes the local officials, like the magistrates, will sidle up to us and say ‘Hey, if you win and go to Congress, we’d like to talk to you about some projects we want.’ And I say, ‘You must not understand what we’re saying here. We’re not going to be doing that,’ ” said candidate John Kemper III of Lexington.
Beating Chandler won’t be hard because angry voters are hankering to dump career politicians, the candidates predicted. “My cat could beat Ben Chandler this year,” said candidate Perry Wilson Barnes of Nicholasville.
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