♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ THE 143rd ANNUAL FANCY FARM PICNIC SERVED UP A HHY AND BARBE DENISONS AND VISITORS OF THE COUNTY.

IT IS A FUNDRAISER FOR THE ST. JEROME CHURCH THERE BUT KNOWN FOR THE POLITICAL STUMP SPEECHES OF YESTERYEAR THAT OFTEN SERVE AS AN UNOFFICIAL KICKOFF TO THE GENERAL ELECTION SEASON.

THIS YEAR, KENTUCKY IST WATCHEDE IN THE COUNTRY AS KENTUCKIANS WILL DECIDE WHO WILL HOLD THE STATE'S HIGHEST OFFICE.

>> CURRENT GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR IS FACING OFF AGAINST ATTORNEY GENERAL DANIEL CAMERON IN THE RACE FOR THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION.

THE TWO CANDIDATES TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRADE BARBS AND MAKE T C T COMMONWEALTH'S TOP JOB.

WE'LL SHOW YOU THE BEST ONE LINERS, PUNCH LINES AND CROWD PLEASERS AS WE RECAP THE POLITICAL EVENT FANCY FARM 143 NOW ON KET.E, I'M RENEE SHAW ALONG WITH CASEY PARKER-BELL.

FANCY FARM HOSTS THE LARGEST ONE-DAY PICNIC IN THE WORLD.

A HOMECOMING FOR THE COMMUNITY'S NATIVES AND A MUST-SEE EVENT FOR THOSE WHO GEEK OUT ON KENTUCKY POLITICS.

>> THE PICNIC OCCURS ON THE FIRST SATURDAY IN AUGUST AND HAS BE POLITICAL SPEAKING EVENT.

BUT HOW DID THE COMMUNITY OF JUST OVER 500 PEOPLE COME TO HOLD THE WORLD'S LARGEST PICNIC?

OUR TOBY GIBBS EXPLAINS HOW THE EVENT EVOLVED AND HOW THE TOWN GOT ITS CHARMING NAME.

THE STORY RY THE 1820s WHEN SETTLERS FROM TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND OTHER PARTS OF KENTUCKY FIRST ARRIVED IN PRESENT DAY GRAVES COUNTY MANY WERE CATHOLIC AND FOUNDED ST. JEROME'S CATHOLIC CHURCH IN 1836.

A SERIES OF FAMILY REUNIONS TURNED INTO AEGAR PICNICS AND BY880, THE PIC NICK HAD BECOME A FUNDRAISER FOR THE CHURCH, BUT IT WASN'T POLITICAL.

AT FIRST.

>> MY GRANDFATHER ITSELF THE ONE WHO POPULARIZED THE POLITICAL ASPECT OF THE FANCY FARM PICNIC AND THAT WAS IN THE 1930S.

>> 1931 SPECIFICALLY THE YEAR A.B.

HAPPY CHANDLER SPOKE WHILE RUNNING FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

HE WON THE RACE AND FANCY FARM BECAME A PLACE FOR OLD SCHOOL POLITICAL SPEECHIFYING.

WE THINK OF AWAY FROM AS THE FIRS S THAT WASN'T ALWAYS THE CASE.

IN FACT, FOR MOST OF ITS HISTORY, IT WASN'T.

IT WAS IN JULY UNTIL 1956 WHEN KENTUCKY'S PRIMARY WAS IN AUGUST.

WHEN THE PRIMARY MOVED TO MAY, FANCY FARM WAS PUSHECA THE UNOFO THE FALL CAMPAIGN.

SOME BIG NATIONAL NAMES HAVE TURNED UP AT FANCY FARM.

GOVERNOR GEORGE WALLACE SPOKE IN 1975, ONE YEAR BEFORE HIS FOURTH AND FINAL CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT AND THREE YEARS AFTER HE WAS WOE ASSAIN'S BULLET.

>> HE WAS UP AT THE PODIUM SPEAKING WHEN THE PHOTOGRAPHERS HAD THE OLD STYLE CAMERAS WITH THE EXPOSED FLASH BULBS ON THEM.

THE PHOTOGRAPHER TOOK A PICTURE AND IT POPPED LIKE A GUN AND GOVERNOR WALLACE FLERCHE ANYTHING.

HE WENT ON AND PROCEEDED WITH THE SECH.

THE PHOTOGRAPHER RELOADED THE BULB.

TOOK ANOTHER STILL SHOT OF HIM AND IT POPPED LIKE A GUN AND HE SAID IN HIS ALABAMA ACCENT, HAV M I'M STILL A LITTLE BIT GUN SHY UP HERE.

>> SENATOR LLOYD BENTSEN THERE IN 1988 AS A CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT BUT COULDN'T SWING KENTUCKY TO THE DUKAKIS-BENT CENTRAL TICKET.

AL GORE SPPED AT YEARS LATER.

HE WAS SCESSFUL.

CLINTON AND GORE CARRIED KENTUCKY THAT NOVEMBER.

ALVIN BARCLAY SPOKE AT FANCY FARM MULTIPLE TIMES, FAMILIAR TURF FOR HIM.

THE JACKSON PURCHASE'S FAVORITE SON WAS BORN IN GRAVES COUNT HAS MADE THE HISTO BOOKS WN PICNIC GOERS PUT AWAY 15,000 POUNDS OF MUTTON, PORK AND CHICKEN, IT MADE THE BOOK OF WORLD'S RECORD.

YOU MAY BE ASKING HOW THE COMMUNITY GOT ITS NAME.

THE STORY IS IN THE 18 4 WHEN OWN POST OFFICE, A VISITING POSTAL INSPECTOR STAYED AT A FARM THAT MADE QUITE AN IMPRESSION ON HIM AND HE NAMED THE AREA FANCY FARM.

FOR KET, I'M TOBY GIBBS.

>> Renee: DEMOCRAT INCUMBENT GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR HAS NOT ATTENDED T FANCYNIC SINCE 2019 WHEN HE WAS FIRST ELECTED AS THE STATE'S C.E.O.

HE MISSED THE FIRST TWO YEARS IN HIS BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC AND LAST YEAR AFTER THE FLOODING IN EASTERN KENTUCKY BUT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE DID NOT SKIP THIS ELECTION YEA OPPONENTS REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL DANIEL CAMERON IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR AFTER ONE TERM IN HIS CURRENT POSITION.

HE RECEIVED NATIONAL ATTENTION AFTER HIS OFFICE INVESTIGATED THE KILLING OF BREONNA TAYLOR.

NOW HE IS RUNNING A LAW AND ORDER MESSAGE AGAINST BESHEAR WHO REMAI OF THE MOST POPULAR GOVERRS IN THE COUNTRY.

>> GOVERNOR, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE, BUT I KNOW YOU FEEL KIND OF OUT OF PLACE HERE AT A CATHOLIC PICNIC.

I KNOW YOU FEEL MORE AT HOME SPENDING TIME WITH THE SISTERS .

THIS GOVERNOR MEETS WITH ANTI-CHRISTIAN HATE GROUPS MORE THAN HE MEETS WITH THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

AM I RIGHT, JASON?

THEY SAY A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS AND THERE IT IS ...

BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THAT PHOTO, THREE WORDS WILL DO THE JOB.

ANDY, YOU'RE FIRED.

NOW ONE THING I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT ANDY BESHEAR.

THERE IS A TV ANDY AND THEN THERE IS A FRANKFORT ANDY.

TV AND ELIS ABOUT HIS RECORD ON JOBS, CRIME AND TEACHERS.

ANDY WANTS TO YOU BELIEVE HE HAS NEVER HEARD OF JOE BIDEN BUT WHEN THE CAMERAS ARE NOT ROLLING AND HE THINKS YOU ARE NOT WATCHING, THAT'S WHEN FRANKFORT ANDY, THE REAL ANDY BESHEAR REARS HIS HEAD.

HE VETOES TAX CUTS, HE FIGHTS R THE HE DEMANDS THAT BOYS PLAY IN GIRLS SPORTS.

HE PROTECTS TRANSGENDER SURGERIES FOR KIDS I'VE BEEN WATCHING FRANKFORT ANDY UP CLOSE FOR NEARLY FOUR YEARS.

AND I HAVE JUST ONE QUESTION.

GOVERNOR, ARE YOU AUDITIONING FOR A JOB WH BUT MARKETING TEAM?

[ CHEERING ] THIS GOVERNOR LIES MORE THAN A HUNTER BIDE BIDEN TAX RETURN.

BUT HERE'S THE TRUTH.

HIS RECORD IS ONE OF FAILURE AND IT FLIES IN THE FACE OF TRUE KE VALUES.

ANDY BESHEAR LOCKED THE SCHOOLS AND THREW OPEN THE JAILS.

HE SENT THE STATE POLICE AFTER CHRISTIANS ON EASTER SUNDAY.

HE CLOSED DOWN MAIN STREET AND BENT OVER BACKWARDS FOR WALL STREET.

THERE ARE FEWER PEOPLE THAN WHER TOOK OFFICE AND THAT'S A FACT.

BUT, FOLKS, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY.

WE CAN RECOVER FOR OUR CHILDREN WHAT ANDY BESHEAR TOOK FROM THEM.

WE CAN RESTORE LAW AND ORDER.

WE CAN BUILD A FUTURE THAT'S BAD VALUES INSTEAD OF THE BESHEAR-BIDEN RADICAL IDEOLOGY.

GOVERNOR, I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE OBSESSED WITH PRONOUNS THESE DAYS.

BUT COME NOVEMBER, YORPS ARE GOING TO BE HAS AND BEEN.

[ CHEERING ] ANDY BESHEAR AND JOE BIDEN ARE LIBERAL LEAKS THAT HAVE A LOT OF RULES FOR YOU BUT NONE FOR THEMSELVES.

THE GOVERNOR HAS THE AUDACITY TO LECTURE RURAL KENTUCKIANS ON RIGHT AND WRONG WHEN HE AND JOE BIDEN C'T TL THE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN THEY MOCK OUR FAITH, OUR FAMILIES AND OUR VALUES, AND THEY TRY TO CANCEL ANYONE WHO DISAGREES.

WELL, THE FOLKS OF FANCY FARM HAVE O RESPO THAT IN A SMALL TOWN.

CHEERING ] WE NEED A GOVERNOR WHO WILL STAND UP TO THE WOKE MOM, NOT CHEER THEM ON WHEN THE MOB CAME TO MY FRONT LAWN TO THREATEN ME, I REFUSED TO BACK DOWN.

I WILL P CHILDREN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM AND KEEP BOYS OUT OF GIRLS SPORTS.

I WILL SUPPORT OUR TEACHERS AND MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE RESOURCES THEY NEED.

I WILL MAKE SURE OUR SCHOOLS ARE ABOUT READING, WRITING AND MATH AND THEYRE INCUBATORS FOR LIRAL AND PROGRESSIVE IDEAS.

I WILL BLACK THE BLUE AND I WILL HOLD JOE BIDEN ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS WAR ON ACCOUNT COAL.

THIS GOVERNOR, HE HAS FAILED TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.

AND AS ATTORNEY GENERAL, I HAVE KE AND WON.

BUT THE ULTIMATE JUDGMENT WILL COME FROM WE, THE PEOPLE.

WE THE PEOPLE SAY THE EVIDENCE IS OVERWHELMING AND THE VERDICT MUST BE GUILTY AS CHARGED.

[ CHEERING OOING).

>> IT IS GREAT TO BE IN WESTERN KENTUCKY WHERE MY FAMILY IS FROM AND WHERE JAMIE COMER PRETENDS TO LIVE AND WHERE DANIEL CAMERON WILL SHOW UP FOR A POLITICAL RALLY BUT NOT FOR TORNADO CAMERON IS HERE THOUGH, WHICH IS SURPRISING.

HE TOLD ERIC DEETERS HE WOULD GO TO HIS BIG RALLY AND BACKED OUT.

HE TOLD ERIC HE REALLY WANTED TO COME, HE REALLY DID BUT HE HAD OTHER THINGS TO DO.

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT RYAN QUARLE.

[ CHEERING ] BUT, HEY, HE HAS ROBBIE MILLS.

YOU KNOW IF YOU TOOK ALL THE PEOPLE ON DANIEL'S LG LISA AVERAGE ROBBY MILLS AND PUT THEM ALL IN A ROOM TOGETHER, YOU WOULD HAVE THE BGEWD CAMERON CA.

ROBBY MILLS IS AN INTERESTING CHOICE.

WHEN I WENT TO COURT AND SAVED THEEN EVERY TEACHER AND POLICE OFFICER ROBBY MILLS WAS BIG MAD.

HE SAID IT WAS THE MOST FRUSTRATED HE HAD EVER BEEN WHICH IS HOW DANIEL FELT WHEN THE BEST HE GOT WAS ROBBY MILLS.

AND, LISTEN, I KNOW YOU JUS FRO.

IT'S NOT TRU IT'S ALL LIES.

BUT IF YOU ARE WILLING TO LIE ABOUT A GRAND JURY, HE IS WILLING TO LIE TO YOU.

[ CHEERING ] LISTEN.

WE ALL HAVE FUN A WE THROW OUT SOME ZINGERS BUT WE SHOULD REMEMBER WE ARE AT A CHURCH PICNIC AND IN A PLACE HIT HARD BY TORNADOES AND RECENTLY FLOODING.

THIS AREA HAS SHOWN US HOW TO BE OUR BEST.

NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE DO IN CARE OF EACH OTHER.

PEOPLE HAULED OUT DEBRIS, VOLUNTEERED THEIR TIME AND DONATED EVEN WHEN BUDGETS WERE TIGHT.

MY FAITH TEACHES ME THAT WHILE WEEPING MAY LINGER IN THE EVENING, JOY COMES IN THE MORNING.

THAT IS RECORD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTIGHT HERE IN WESTERN KENTUCKY.

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS INVESTS IN THIS AREA.

GOOD PAYING JOBS, MAYFIELD, IS MURRAY, PRECISIONILLE, ASCEND, SO NL IN BENTON,OAD COVERING SOLUTIONS, NOVELLAS IN TODD COUNTY, PAPER IN HENDERSON AND SO MUCH MORE.

THESE ARE THE JOBS CHANGING THE TRAJECTORY OF FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES.

WEAVE HAD THAN $26 MILLION OF NEW PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT IN KENTUCKY.

WE HAVE OUR LOWEST ANNUAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN HISTORY, AND MORE JOBS THAN BEFORE THE PANDEMIC.

WE HAVE ALSO BROUGHT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARSERNT TO REBU.

WE ARE REBUILDING HOUSESOR FAMILIES, SUPPORTING FARMERS AND SMALL BUSINESSES AND, FATHER, WE PAID FOR THE FUNERAL OF ALL 81 PEOPLE WE LOST BECAUSE WE GRIEVE TOGETHER.

DAAY AST.

JEROME'S LET'S REMEMBER WE ARE TOLD NOT JUST TO TALK ABOUT OUR FAITH, BUT TO ACTUALLY LIVE IT OUT.

I'M REMINDED OF THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH IS THAT WE LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR AS OURSELVES.

AND THE PARABLE OF ODTAE ISN OUR NEIGHBOR.

HERE YOU SEE A CTRAST.

THIS RACE IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VISION AND DIVISION.

SEE, THEY'RE TRYING TO PIT US AGAINST EACH OTHER, CALLING EVERYONE NAMES WHO DISAGREE WITH THEM.

TELLIN Y TO YELL AT AND EVEN HATE YOUR FELLOW KENTUCKIANS.

I'M READY TO PROVE THAT'S A LOSING STRATEGY IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY.

>> DANIEL CAMERON ANNOUNCED ROBBY MILLS AS HIS RUNNING MATE LESS THAN A MONTH AGO.

MILLS REPRESENTS PART OF WESTERN KENTUCKY IN THE STATE SENATE AND IS FROM HENDERSON.

GOVERNOR BESHEAR KEPT HIS RUNNING MATE FROM THE LAST ELECTION, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR JACQUELINE COLEMAN.

THE FORMER TEACHER AND BASKETBALL COACH TOOK DIRECT AIM AT REPUBLICAN NOMINEE DANIEL CAMERON.

>> WELL, IT'S GOOD RNORHEAR HERE TODAY.

IT'S NICE TO MEET YOU, GOVERNOR.

OUTSIDE OF A PRESS CONFERENCE.

YOU MAY NOT KNOW WHO I AM, GOVERNOR, BUT I'M A LEGISLATOR FROM THE KENTUCKY GENERAL ASSEMBLY YOU KNOW, THAT CO-EQUAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.

WE ACTUALLY WORK IN THE SAME BUILDING WITH YOU, BUT YOU NEVER STOP BY TO SEE US.

YOU SPENT FOUR YEARS HOLD UP IN YOUR OFFICE REFUSING TO WORK WITH A OF US ON YTHING.

AND IT IS TRULY A SHAME, GOVERNOR, BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ARE DETERMINED TO DELIVER FOR KENTUCKY.

WE ARE HELPING FAMILIES MAKE ENDS MEET.

WE ARE INVESTING IN INFRASTRUCTURE, SCHOOLS AND OUR WORKFORCE.

WE ARE STANDING STRONG FOR OUR KENTUCKY VALUES AND THE MOST VULNERABLE.

YOU KNOW, I REALLY DON'T THINK GOVERNOR BESHEAR WANTS US TO KNOW WHAT GOES ON IN HIS OFFICEM HIM IS IN A TO MESSAGE AND WE ALL KNOW HOW THOSE END, DON'T WE?

>> NOW WE KNOW THIS IS AN ELECTION YEAR BECAUSE THIS SIDE IS DUSTING OFF MATT BEVIN'S OLD PLAYBOOK AND HE IS ATTACKING OUR SCHOOLS AGAIN.

LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHI FANCY FARM, IT DID NOT WORK THEN AND IT IS NOT GOING TO WORK NOW.

IT IS SURREAL TO THINK WE WERE FIGHTING A FEWEARS FIGHTING N CU LET ME REMIND YOU, DANIEL CAMERON SAID HE WOULD HAVE DEFENDED THOSE ILLEGAL PENSION CUTS; BREAKING THAT PROMISE TO OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT, OUR SOCIAL WORKERS AND OUR TEACHERS!

DON'T WORRY, DANIEL, AS YOUELFRS FORMER GOVERNOR, I HEAR YOU ARE IN GOOD COMPANY.

AS HIS FORMER RUNNING MATE, ROBBY MILLS, IT WASN'T ENOUGH FOR THEIR SEWER BILL THAT LOST UNANIMOUSLY IN COURT.WA S SESSIN TO TRY TO RAM IT THROUGH AGAIN.

JU THINK ABOUT THAT.

7 NOs.

0 YESES.

SOUND LIKE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SPEED DATING WITH DANIEL CAMERON.

>> THE CANDIDATES ARE NOT THE ONLYNES SPEAKING ASSIGNMENT.

THE EMCEE THAT KEEPS THE EVENT ON TRACK ENDURES THE STAGE, TOO.

DAVID BECK, PRESIDENT OF KENTUCKY VENUES WAS SELECTED AS EMCEE OF THE STUMP SPEECHES AND TOLD US LAST WEEK ABOUT HIS RESPONSE TO THE INVITATION AND HOW HE PREPARED FOR THEK.

>> WELCOME, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU.

>> GOOD TO BE HERE TODAY.

>> Renee: FANCY FARM 143, YOU ARE THE EMCEE, HOW ARE YOU PREPARING OR HOW DID YOU PREPARE FOR THIS ROLE?

>> MY GOOD FRIEND STEVEN RCHED O WEEKS AGO AND WE TALKED ABOUT IT AND IT TOOK ME ABOUT A WEEK TO GET BACK WITH STEVEN AND I CONSIDER IT AN HONOR AND PRIVILEGE.

IT WASN'T ON MY RADAR.

SOMETHING I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT AND THEN THE CALENDAR STARTED CLICKING AWAY.

LASTUNDAY AFTER URCHAFTERLU THOUGHT AND PREPARATION TO IT AND THE PEOPLE I WILL BE INTRODUCING ON STAGE I HAVE KNOWN AND WORKED WITH.

I WANT TO BE BALANCED AND FAIR AS THE EMCEE THIS YEAR.

JUST PICKING THROUGH ALL THAT, THINKING ABOUT WHAT I WANT TO SAY AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT I DON'T SAY, I GUESS.

[LAUGHR]>>en: AND IT'S INTERTING BECAUSE I THINK, AS WE DISCUSSED ARE THE FIRST LOUISVILLAN TO HAVE THIS ROLE.

YOU COME FROM A CORPORATE BACKGROUND AS WELL.

THERE HAVE BEEN APE LOT OF DIFFERENT VOTING RIGHTS OF EMCEES, YOU KNOW, MAT JONES ANDU HAVE YOUR POLITICIANS AND JOURLISTS LIKE AL SMITH, AL CROSS, THERE HAS BEEN A CROSS SECTION OF PEOPLE.

WHEN YOU GOT THE CALL WERE YOU SURPRISED?

>> I WAS.

IT WAS NOT ON MY RADAR.

I ATTENDED FANCY FARM FOR MANY YEARS.

I'M FROM WESTERN KENTUCKY.

I HAVE A REAL APPRECIATION FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

FUNDRAISER FOR THE CHURCH AND THE SCHOOL.

BUT THEN THE POLITICAL SIDE OF IT.

THIS COMMUNITY HAS BEEN THROUGH A LOT AND THEY HAVE A HUGE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE THAT EXAMPLE AND TRADITION.

THAT MEANS A LOT TO ME.

I RESPECT WHAT THEY DO AND I REALLY CONSIDER IT AN HONOR TO BE INV AND TO BE PAROF THAT LONG TIME KENCKY HISTORICAL TRADITION.

>> Renee: I WON'T ASK YOU WHO YOUR FAVORITE EMCEE IS FROM ALL THE FANCY FARMS YOU HAVE BEEN TO AND WHO YOU MIGHT EMULATE BUT ARE YOU GOING TO COME WITH A SET OF JOKES?

ARE YOU GOING TO BE FUNNY OR STAY DOWN THE MIDDLE AND DO THE INTRODUCTIONS?

WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TO SEE?

>> I HAVE SOME THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO SAY ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS TRADITION.

I WANT TO SEE IT CONTINUE.

MY GOAL IS TO BE FAIR AND HAVE A SUCCESSFUL EVENT AND RECOGNIZE WHY WE ARE HERE.

AND WHAT THIS IS ALL AUT FDRAISE POLITICAL SIDE, WHICH IS IMPORTANT.

AS KENTUCKIANS, WE WANT TO MEET OUR CANDIDATES, SHAKE THEIR HAND, LOOK THEM IN THE AYE EVALUATE THEIR VALUES AND VISION AND WHAT THEY STAND FOR AND COMPARE THOSE TO OUR A EL DAY.

AND AS WITH ANY MEDIA, IT' IMPORTANT WITH COMMERCIALS.

BUT PEOPLE WANT TO SHAKE HANDS IN KENTUCKY.

ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO KEEP THIS GOING UNDERSTAND I'M PLEASED WE ARE GOING HAVE GREAT ATTENDANCE FROM PARTICIPANTS ON STAGE, IT'S GOOD TO SEE THAT BACK IN PLACE AS WELL.

>> Renee: U.S.

SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL MADE NEWS RECENTLY WHEN HE FROZE MID SENTENCE FOR MORE THAN 20 SECONDS AT A PRESS CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON.

LED TO QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS HEALTH AND LED TO STORIES ABOUT RECENT FALLS AND WHEELCHAIR USE BY THE SENATE MINORITY LEAR.

BU McCONNE WAS AT THE FANCY FARM PICNIC ON SATURDAY AND SPENT HIS TIME ON SATURDAY TAKING SHOTS AT THE CURRENT WITH THE STDOWN GOVERNOR IN CHARGE, I'M SURE STATE TROOPERS ARE JUST GLAD TO BE ON CHURCH PROPERTY WITHOUT HAVING TO TAG LICENSE PLATES.

MY FRIENDS, I'LL BE HONEST IT'S NOT HARD FOR REPUBLICANS TO LOOK GOOD THESE DAYS.

WERE UT S GAVE YOU RECORD HIGH INFLATION.

WE ARE UP AGAINST FOLKS WHO CLOSE SCHOOLS AND THEN TOLD YOU THE TEACHERS UNIONS KNOW WHAT'SU WE ARE UP AGAINSFOLKS WHO WOULD RATHER LET REPEAT OFFENDERS WALK FREE THAN GET TOUGH ON CRIME.

I'M GLAD GOVERNOR BESHEAR FINALLY DECIDED TO COME TO FANCY FARM.

IT HAS BEEN THE FIRST SATURDAY IN AUGUST FOR 143 YEARS.

BUT ANDY ONLY SEEMS TO MAKE TIME FOR YOU ALL WHEN HE'S STARING DOWN ELECTION DAY.

FRIENDS, I KNOW A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT BEATING BESHEARS, AND LET ME TELL YOU, LET ME TELL YOU, ANDY MADE HIS DAD LOOK LIKE A REPUBLICAN.

STEVE BESHEAR THOUGHT WOKE WHAT WHAT IS HE DID FROM HIS SENATE MIGHT MAYOR RACE IN 1996.

BUT ANDY, HE SPOKES LIBERAL WITH A CALIFORNIA ACCENT.

SO MAKE NO MISKE.

BIDEN AND BESHEAR ARE AS THICK AS THIEVES NOT JUST BECAUSE HE WANT TO ROB YOU BLIND IN TAXES.

DON'T TAKE MY WORD AT IT.

LET'S LOOK AT ANDY'S RECORD.

HE OSED DOWN BUSINESSES AND HE CLOSED DOWN LIQR SRES A SCHOOLS-- HE SHUT DOWN SCHOOLS WHILE KEEPING LIQUOR STORES OPEN.

HE MIGHT AS WELL BE RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF SANRANCISCO.

>>ENO FACE I THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE NEXT YEAR AS THE LAST TWO OFFICE HOLDERS ARE CURRENTLY RUN RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR.

THE CANDIDATES FOR THE STATE'S TOP LAW ENFORCEMENT JOB ARE FORMER UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL RUSSELL COLEMAN AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE PAMELA STEVENSON.

COLEMAN SERVED AS THE U.S. ATTORNEY FOR KENTUCKY' WESTERNRS LACK OF A KENTUCKY LAW LICENSE.

STEVENSON MADE HER ATTACKS FROM THE STUMP A LITTLE MORE PERSONAL.

AFTEGRADUATING FROM U.K. LAW SCHOOL, I SPENT MANY HOURS, A LOT OF HOURS BEFORTHE TORNADO TOOK IT IN WHAT WAS THE GRAVES COUNTY COURTHOUSE.

STUDYING FOR THE KENTUCKY BAR EXAM.

WELL, HOLD ON A MINUTE, REPRESENTATIVES STEVENSON, LET ME TELL YOU THE KENTUCKY BAR EXAM IS A TEST YOU TAKE TO PRACTICE LAW IN KENTUCKY.

JOKES ASIDE, I'M RUNNING FOR THE VERY SERIOUS PURPOSE OF PROTECTING YOUR FAMILY AND MINE FROM VIOLENT CRIME, FROM THE DEADLY DRUGS THAT WE ARE SEEING DUMPING INTO OUR COMMUNITIES, D OM THE RADAL O OFHE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IN WASHINGTON D.C. FRIENDS, I AM RUNNING TO BACK THE BLUE.

I HAVE WORN A BADGE AND I HAVE CARRIED A GUN AS A STREET AGENT.

I HAVE BEEN A STATE PROSECUTOR VETHE CHIEF FEDERAL PROSECUTOR APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THENITED STATES.

I HAVE RAISED MY HAND TO SERVE OVERSEAS IN A COMBAT ZONE, TO PROTECT THIS COUNTRY FROM ITS ENEMIES.

THIS PICNIC IS A CELEBRATION OF CONSERVATIVE KENTUCKY VALUES.

BUT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, LED BY GOVERNOR BESHEAR AND PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS ABANDONED THOSE VALUES.

WHY ELSE WOULD GOVERNOR BESHEAR KEEP OUR SCHOOLS CLOSED AND FAIL OUR STUDENTS?

AND GOVERN, IS NOGETTING THE JOB DONE TLET OUR KIDS MENTAL HEALTH CRATER AND JUVENILE VIOLENCE INCREASE!

WHY ELSE WOULD GOVERNOR BESHEAR PARDON SO MANY VIOLENT OFFENDERS THAT WENT ON TO REOFFEND AND HURT KENTUCKY FAMILIES AND WHY ELSE WOULD HE RECRUIT A E R AL WHO COULDN'T EVEN LEGALLY PRACTICE LAW IN OUR COMMONWEALTH?

THAT'S RIGHT.

MY OPPONENT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A KENTUCKY LAW LICENSE.

THIS NOVEMBER YOU WILL HAVE A CLMEING SUPPORTED BY KENTUCKY LAW ENFORCEMENT TO INCLUDE AN ENDORSEMENT FROM THE KENTUCKY STATE POLICE AND WHO IS YOUR LAWYER?

>> THEY CALL ME CONFORM PAM BECAUSE SERVED 27 YEARS IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE AND RETIRED... AND RETIRED AS A COLONEL.

SINCE I DIDN'T HAVE MITCH LOST WOMEN DO IT.H T I EARNED IT.

I STOOK ON THE TOUGHEST JOBS.

I WAS A CHIEF PROSECUTOR.

I HELPED THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES.

I WORKED WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

ENFORCEMENT!ED WH LAW I MITIGATED HUNDREDS OF CASES.

I NEGOTIATED A HOSTAGE CRISIS IN CROATIA.

I WORKED THE UNITED NATIONS I ASST THE 91 COMMISSION ANDEPLOYED TO THE MILE EAST.

AND THAT WAS ALL ON A MONDAY!

NOW I KNOW THESE BOYS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO MAKE A BIG TO DO ABOUT MAY BAR STATUS.

I I WOULD, TOO, IF I HAD TO COMPETE AGAINST MY RESUME.

LORD, LORD KNOWS, AND I NOTE THE LORD, THAT SOME OF THESE BOYS WOULDN'T EN MAKE IT OUOF OT CAMP.

SO, LET'S BE REAL, KENTUCKY.

I MAY NOT BE THE MOST EXCITING CANDIDATE.

I QUILT.

I LIKE TO GO TO BED EARLY.

AND I'M NOT SO TALL.

BUT I AM STILL MILES MORE INTERESTING THAN MY OPPONENT.

HE'SO D CAMERON SEEM LIKE A REAL ATTORNEY!

ALL JOKES ASIDE, I HAVE FULFILLED EVERY REQUIREMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION FIVE TIMES OVER IN NEARLY 40 YEARS OLAW PRACTICE, I AM MORE QUALIFIED THAN THE MAN WHO CURNTLY HOLDS THE JOB.

>> THE ONLY DOWN BALLOT RACE WITH AN INCUMBENT RUNNING IS SECRETARY OF STATE.

CURRENT OFFICE HOLDER MICHAEL ADAMS WON THE LAST ELECTION USING THE TAG LINE, EASIER TOVO.

BUT THIS YEAR HE SPENT A LOT OF TIME ALLUDING TO BUDDY WHEATLEY'S SUSPENSION WHEN HE WAS COVINGTON FIRE CHIEF AFTER DRINKING AND DRIVING.

>> HE LOST HIS SEAT IN 2022 AS REPUBLICS EXPANDIRER MAJORITY.

AT THE PODIUM ON SATURDAY, WHEATLEY KNOCKED ADAMS RECORD AS SECRETARY OF STATE SAYING WHEATLEY WOULD BE THE ONE TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR KENTUCKY YARNS TO VOTE-- KENTUCKIANS TO VOTE.

>> I AM A FOURTH GENERATION FIREFIGHTER AND RETIRED FIRE CHIEF.

I KNOW A THING OR TWO ABOUT WORKING IN THE HEAT AND WORKING UNDER PRESSURE TOM HEAT THAT MICHAEL ADAMS IS AWARE OF IS HIS OWN HOT AIR.

MY FAMILY HAS BEEN IN KENTUCKY FOR 150 YEARS.

PUBLIC SERVICE WAS IMBUED IN ME FROM A YOUNG AGE AND I HAVE KNOWN THE VALUE OF WORKING HARD AND GIVING BACK TO YOUR COMMUNITY.

THAT'S THE VALUE I WILL CAR ME TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE.

WE ARE LUCKY TO LIVE IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STATE IN THE COUNTRY.

AND THANKS TO GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR WE ARE SEEING RECORD JOB GROWTH.

RECORD INVESTMENT IN OURSC IROVR INFRASTRUCTURE.

HE IS MOVING KENTUCKY FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE!

BUT SADLY, WE ARE IN A VERY IMPORTANT WAY, FALLING BEHIND.

AND THAT'S HOW WE RUN OURTION MIAEL ADAMS IS THE REASON.

HE WANTS TO MAKE IT HARDER TO VOTE, NOT EASIER FOR KENTUCKIANS.

THAT'S WHY HE TOOK AWAY SO MANY OF OUR POLLING LOCATIONS IN THE 2022 ELECTION, LEADING TO THE LOWEST VOTER TURNOUT IN 30 YEARS.

HE SAYS HE WANTS TO CUT DOWN ON VOTER FRAUD, BUT THEN HE WANTS TO PULL US OUT OF A BIPARTISAN NATIONAL VOTER PROTECTION PROGRAM.

HERE'S WHAT I'M GOING TO DO AS SECRETARY OF STATE.

GIVE KENTUCKIANS T FULL ELY VOTG KEEP OUR POLLS OPEN UNTIL 7 P.M. ON ELECTION DAY AS OUR CONSTITUTION PERMITS AND, YES, HELP ENSURE THAT THE VICTIMS OF NATUL D LIKE OUR FLOODS AND DISASTROUS TORNADOES ARE GIVEN THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO VOTE.

AND HERE IS ANOTHER THING.

WHEN I'M SECRETARY OF STATE, IT AN ARE PAYING MICHAEL ADAMS TO WORK FOR THEM IN FRANKFORT BUT WE FOE HE CONTINUES TO MOONLIGHT AS A LAW PARTNER IN ANLECTIONS FIRM THAT REPRESENTS ELECTION DENIERS AND SOME OF THE WORST POLITICIANS THIS COUNTRY HAS ER SN.

TH DEMOCRATS LATELY.

UNDER GOVERNOR BESHEAR,HEY HAVE LOST 150,000 REGISTERED VOTERS.

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS LOSING CUSTOMERS FASTER THAN BUD LIGHT.

BETTER.NENT IS NOT FAIRING ANY INS OY GETTING 24%.

IN THIRD PLACE BEHIND UNDECIDED.

BUT, FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE IS RELIEVED TO SEE A NUMBER ABOVE .08% AS YOUSECRETARY OF STATE, I AM PROUD TO TELL YOU THAT WE HAVE HELPED USHER INTO BEING OVER 100,000 KENTUY BUSINESSES.

WE HAVE TAKEN STRONG ACTION TO PROTECT SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND, YES, WE HAVEEDLECN THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY.

WE HAVE REQUIRED A PHOTO I.D.

TO VOTE.

WE'VE CLEANED UP OUR VOTE ERROL ROLES AND SO MUCH MORE.

TWO MONTHS AFTER I TOOK OFFICE, COVID HIT.

OTHE STATES ELECTNS POLLS WERE CLOSED WITH NO NOTICE.

BALLOTS WERE LOST.

VOTERS CROWDED INTO LONG LINES AND GOT SICK WITH CORONAVIRUS.

BUT UNDER MY LEADERSHIP, IN 2020, KENTUCKY WAS THE FIRST STATE TO SUCCESSFULLY CONDUCT AN ECON IN A PANDEMIC.

COMING OUT OF THE ELECTION, I FACED A CHALLENGE.

I WANTED TO PERMANENTLY IMPROVE OUR ELECTIO WITH MORE VOTING DAYS AND EVEN BETTER SECURITY.

NO ONE THOUGHT I COULD DO IT.

BUT WHEN I FACED THAT CHALLEN, I SAI W BUDDY WHEATLEY NEVER SAYS: HOLD MY BEER.

WORKING IN GOOD FAITH WITH BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE, I PRODUCED THE BIGGEST REFORM OF OUR ELECTION SINCE THE 1850s.

AND EVERY Y O M PASSED A BIPARTISAN BILL TO MAKE YOUR VOTING EXPERIENCE BETTER.

SO HOW DOES MY OPPONENT COMPARE?

WHEN HE FILED A RUN FOR THIS OFFICE, HE COULDN'T EVEN FILL OUT THE ONE-PAGE FORM CORRECTLY.

HE FORGOT TO PUT DOWN THE OFFICE HE WAS RUNNING FOR.

IN THE LEGISLATURE, HE VOTED AGAINST MY VOTE I.D.

TO VOTE BILL.

HE VOTED AGAINST TRANSITION TO PAPER BALLO AND VOTED AGAINST EXPANDING OUR AUDIT PROCESS AND VOTED AGAINST LETTING THE GOVERNOR AND ME WORKOGHER TO THE 2020 ELECTION IN KENTUCKY.

IF HE HAD BEEN SECRETARY OF STATE IN 2020, WE WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN WHO WAS VOTING IN OUR ELECTIONS UNTIL THEY CHECKED IN AT THE HOSPITAL WITH COV.

THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN HIS LEGISLATIVE RECORD IS HIS DRIVINGECORD.

CURNTLI TREASURER ALLISON BALL WAS THE YOUNGEST CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICER IN THE COUNTRY WHEN SHE WAS ELECTED IN 2015 AND THE FIRST KENTUCKY CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICER TO GIVE BIRTH WHILE IN OFFICE.

TERM LIMITS IN HER CURRENT POSITION, SHE IS LOOKING TO WIN A DIFFERENT OFFICE THIS YEAR.

STATE AUDITOR.

HEOPPONENT IEMOCT KIM REEDER.

REEDER SOLD HER EXPERIENCE AS A TAX ATTORNEY WHILE BALL SPENT HER TIME ATTACKING GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR.

DEMOCRATS HAVE A NUMBERS PROBLEM.

AND I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE THE FEWEST ELECTED DEMOCRATS IN KENTUCKY HISTORY, OR THAT THEY HAVE THE SMALLEST PERCENTAGE OF KENTUCKIANS REGISTERED TO VOTE IN KENTUCKY HISTORY.

I AM TALKING ABOUT ALL OF IT.

THINK ABOUT IT.

THE ONLY NUMBERS THAT MY DEMOCRAT OPPONENT THINK ABOUT ARE HER NATIONOLRS FROMLIRNIAND.

THE LY NUMBERS THAT JACQUELINE COLEMAN THINK ABOUT DURING A PANDEMIC ARE THE PHONE NUMBERS OF HER HAIR DRESSERS.

ANDY BESHEAR'S NUMBERS, ON JOBS, TEACHERS AND THE HOMICIDE RATE ARE WAY OFF THE MARK, AND E BIDECAN'T REMEMBER HOW MANY GRANDKIDS HE HAS.

BUT IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, THE DEMOCRATS TROUBLE WITH NUMBERS ARE CAUSING US REAL PROBLEMS.

BIDEN ECONOMICS IS CAUNGATIOET AND ANDY BESHEAR IS MORE INTERESTED IN COUNTING LICENSE PLATES NUMBERS THAN FIGURING OUT HOW MANY FOSTER KIDS ARE SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR OF OFFICE BUILDINGS OR HOW MANY JUVENILES ARE SUFFERING IN JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERS.ESE E SERIOUSO HAVE.

THIS REPUBLICAN TICKET ON THE OTHER HAND IS THE ONLY ONE WITH THE NUMBERS TO MAKE KENTUCKY GREAT AGAIN.

WE'VE LOWERED YOUR TAXES WE'VE CREATED JOBS, AS STATE TREASURER I'VE MADE SURE ALL 171 SCHOOLDIO TEACFINANCIAL LITERACY TO THE NEXT GENERATION.

I HAVE RETURNED $170 MILLION OF UNCLAID PROPERTY.

I'VE HELPED KENTUCKIANS WITH DISABILITIES SAVE NEARLY $12 MILLION OF THEIR OWN MONEY.

RELY P OF THIS ONE.

HAVE I FOUGHT AINST THE ESG MOVEMENT OR AS I LIKE TO CALL IT, EXTREME SHORTAGES GUARANTEED MOVEMENT.

>> I SPENT 20 YEARS BUILDING A SUCCESSFULAW PCTICE.

I WAS OF THE TOP TAX ATTORNEYS IN THE COUNTRY.

BUT ALL OF THAT PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS REALLY DIDN'T SEEM TO MATTER AS MUCH WHEN MY MOTHER WAS DIAGNOSEDITH AN EARLY ONSET FORM OF DEMENTIA SO I RAISED MY HAND TO HELP HER.

AND IN 2014, MY DAUGHTER AINSLEY AND I MOVED BACK TO MOREHEAD TO BE WITH MY MOTHER IN THE LAST YEAR OF HERIF AFTER SHE PASSED AWAY, I CONTINUED TO RAISE MY HAND, TO WORK AT OUR LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL, TEACHINGOMMUNICATIONS, TO TEACH FOR FIVE YEARS IN THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM.

AND NOW I'VE RAISED MY HAND TO RUN FOR AUDITOR.

BECAUSE MY EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS MAKE ME EXCEPTIONALLY QUALIFIED FOR THIS JOB.

I AM JUST A CAREER POLITICIAN TRYING TO GET ANOTHER POLITICAL JOB.

I'M A PROFESSIONAL, WHO WANTS TO USE MY SKILLS, MY INTELLECT AND MY DECADES OF EXPERIENCE TO WORK FOR KEUC >> Renee: IN ADDITION TO OFFICE HOLDERS AND SEEKERS, POLITICAL ACTIVISTS SWARMED THE FANCY FARM PICNIC GROUNDS LOOKING TO MOTIVATE THE POLITICIANS TO MAKE THEIR ISSUES A PRIORITY.

REPRESENTATIVES FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE ABONEBATE ENGAGING PICNIC GOERS.

CASEY SPOKE WITH ONE FROM KENTUCKY RIGHT TO LIFE AND ANOTHER FROM PLANNED PARENTHOOD.

>> WHY ARE YOU ALL HERE AT FANCY FARM?

ORGANIZER T WWECTUALLY HAVE AN ME EVE YEAR TO FANCY FARM.

IT'S RLLY IMPORTANT THAT WE TALK ABOUT THESE ISSUES.

IT'S IMPORTANT FOR EVERY CANDIDATE TO KNOW THAT ABORTION IS A WINNING ISSUE.

YOU KNOW, WE CARRIED A LOT OF THE STATE LAST YEAR WITH THE AMENDMENT AND WE ACTUALLYALLO, E DISTRICTSIKE McCRACKEN AND DALAWAY WITH AT-- CALLOWAY WERE AT 49%.

WE ALMOST TOOK SOME OF THE COUNTIES IN WESTERN KENTUCKY AND WE DID BETTER THAN DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES HAVE DONE IN THESE COUNTIES SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR CANDIDATES TO PAY ATTENTION TO ABORTION BECAU IT IS A WINNINGSSHERE MBERS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO CARE ABOUT THIS.

AND IT DOES HAVE CROSSOVER POTENTIAL.

>> AS PEOPLE ARE STOPPING BY, THEY SEE YOU ARE ALL SET UP, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING TO THEM?

>> YEAH, NO, THEY ASK ABOUT OUR ISSUES.

THEY ASK ABOUT HEALTHCARE.

THEY'RE REALLY FRIGHTENED RIGHT NOW BEUSE THEY ARE PERIENCING N TO ACCESS HEALTHCARE.

IT'S BEEN A YEAR SINCE ABORTION HAS NO LONGER BE ACCESSIBLE IN KENTUCKY AND THEY HAVE FOUND, YOU KNOW, THAT THEIR ACCESS TO A VARIETY OF REPRODUCTIVE CARE, NOT JUST ABORTION IS MADE MORE INACCESSIBLE.

DOCTORS ARE LVING THE STATE ANDY'RE FINDING ITGET CEND THEYT THAT RIPPLE EFFECT HIT THEM IN VARIOUS WAYS.

AND SO I WOULD EXPECT TO SEE ABORTION EVEN BE MORE POPULAR IN COUNTIES WE DIDN'T CARRY BUT CAME CLOSE TO.

>> SO, WHY ARE YOU ALL HERE AT FANCY FARM THISEA >> W THERENG LIKE FANCY FARMNENTUCKY.

IT IS THE PLACE TO BE.

WE HAVE ALL OF OUR RACES RUNNING AND WE HAVE ENDORSED CANDIDATES IN OUR KENTUCKY RIGHT TO LIFE PAC HAS GONE AND STUDIED AND ENDORSED FOR THIS RACE.

IT'S MORE THAN THAT.

WE ARE HERE FOR A VOICE FOR FE.

CE FOROM.

WE ARE VERY PROWOMEN AND THE SUPPORT WOMEN GET AND UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES FACING THE COMMONWEALTH CONCERNING OUR CHILDREN AND OUR EDUCATION.

WE BRING EVERYTHING HERE AS WE ARE HERE AT FANCY FARM TO BE A VOICE FOR CHILDREN, WOMEN, THE UNBORN AND OUR ISSUES.

>> OBVIOUSLY IT WILL BE THE FIRST TIME SOM PEOPLE STOP ANDSE AT FANCY FARM.

NOT EVERYONE HERE IS EXACTLY HERE FOR THE POLITICS.

WHATS YOUR MESSAGE TO THOSE PEOPLE AS THEY STOP BY AND VISIT YOUR BOOTH?

>> THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO AS KENTUCKIANS IS TO VOTE AND LOW TURNOUT IN THE ELECTIONS IS A SME BECAU WRE CHOOSING OR LEADERS FOR TOMORW AND WE HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT THOSE LEADERS STAND FOR AND WILL YOU HEAR ABOUT THAT PREPETEDLY.

OUR ISSUE IS RIGHT TO LIFE AND THE UNBORN BUT MAKING SURE THE ELECTED OFFICIALS WE HAVE ELECTED TOL CAMERO ALL OF THE TEAM, ARE ELECTED TO GET TO THE POLLS AND VOTE BECAUSE IT WON'T HAPPEN WITHOUT THE VOTE OF THE PEOPLE.

>> Renee: KENTUCKY HAVE L HAVE A NEW AGRICULTURAL COMMISSIONER AS THE CURRENT COMMISSIONER RYAN QUARLES IS TERM LIMITED.

LOOKING TO REPLACE HIM ARE DEMOCRATIERRA ENLOW AND PUAN JONATHAN SHELL.

ENLOW SERVES ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE KENTUCK ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

SHE SAYS SHE HOPES TO GROW THE AG INDUSTRY THROUGH ECONOMIC INVESTMENT.

JONATHAN SHELL IS A FORMER KENTUCKY HOUSE FLOOR LEADER AND HE W UEA THE 2018 REPUBLICAN PMARY.

ON SATURDAY, SHELL PUT HIS FOCUS ON NATIONAL ISSUES.

>> JOE BIDEN AND ANDY BESHEAR ARE OUT OF TOUCH WITH KENTUCKY FARMERS AND KENTUCKYALUES.

THEIR WOKE AGEND IS INFECTING EVERY ASPECT OF OUR CULTURE AND GOVERNMENT.

I'M RUNNING FOR AG COMMISSIONER TO PUT AN END TO T MADNESS, TO STOP BIDEN AND SAVE KENTUCKY!

I'M SURPRISED GOVERNOR BESHEAR EVEN SHOWED UP TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH PICNIC I GUESS HE WILL HAVE TO ASK FOR ABSOLUTION FROM THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE.

I'M GLAD HE COULD FIT US INTO HIS FAREWELL TOUR.

DON'T WORRY, GOVERNOR, NO ONE CARES IF YOU SKIP NEXT YEAR.

THEY USUALLY DON'T INVITE FORMER GOVERNORS.

WHAT DOES KENTUCKY AGRICULTURE MEAN TO ME?

FOOD, FAITH AND FAMILY.

THAT'S WHAT THIS PICNIC IS ALL B. RAL KENTUCKY NEEDTENKFORTITE EXPERIENCE TO LEAD AND BACKLOAN AND THEACK BONE TO STAND UP FOR OUR VALUES.

DESPITE ANDY BESHEAR'S BEST EFFORTS, THIS CHURCH IS OPEN AND THIS PICNIC IS THRIVING!

ETHER YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO RAISE CROPS OR A FAMILY, I'LL FIGHT FOR YOURALUES EVERY SINGLE DAY.

TO PROTECT OUR LIVES FROM JOE BIDEN AND ANDY BESHEAR AND REST OF THEIR RADICAL PARTY, WE NEED!

I'M SO PRO TO SHARE THIS STAGE WITH KENTUCKY'S LAST TWO COMMISSIONERS.

THEY'RE CHAMPIONS OF KENTUCKY AGRICULTURE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO BUILDING ON THEIR MANY, MANY ACHIEVEMENTS AND LOOK AT THIS REPUBLICAN DREAM TEAM I'LL GET WORK WITH.

DANIEL CAMERON IS AN ALL STAR WHO HAS BEATEN ANDY BESHEAR AT COURT AND HE WILL BEAT HIM AT THE BALLOT BOX.

ROBBY MILLS HAS DELIVERED FOR E D HWILL DO THEDHE SAME AS GOVERNOR.

RUSSELL COLEN, ALLISON BALL, MIKE ADAMS, AND MY GOOD FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR FROM GARRETT COUNTY, MARK METCALFE.

WE ARE COMMON SENSE CONSERVATIVES, READY TO STOP JONATHAN, IT'S EVEN NICE TO E OW STAGE TODAY.

I WAS BEGINNING TO THINK THAT YOU HAVE ACTUALLY GIVEN UP ON CAMPAIGNING SIN YOU MISSED AT LEAST FOUR COMMISSIONER FORUMS OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS.

WHICH ACT SAUSE I THOUGHT AFTER OUR YOUNG FARMER BUREAU DAYS YOU GOT COMFORTABLE SHARING A STAGE WITH ME KWING YOU ARE GOING TO COME IN SECOND.

WHILE YOU HAVE BEEN AEN WE KIBOUT KENTUCKIANS AND MAKINGURE THEY CAN RETURNOME TO THEIR FAMILY FARMS.

I KNOW FIRSTHAND HOW HARD IT IS TO RETURN TO YOUR RURAL COMMUNITY.

I HAD TO LEAVE MY FAMILY FARM TO GAIN THE CAREER EXPERIENCE THAT I NEEDED TO BENEFIT MY COMMUNITY AND THAT AS YOUR NEXT AG COMMISSIONER I WILL USE TO BENEFIT THE COMMONWEALTH.

WHILE JONATHAN HAS BEEN GONE, HE E EN LTENING TO MY SPEECHES BECAU HE STARTED TO SAY THAT THE FOCUS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SHOULD BE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EVEN THOUGH HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, HE'S RIGHT.

WHETHER IT'S AT THE FARM GATE OR IN THE BOARD ROOM, I'M THE ONLY NETIATEDVEIN THIS RACE WHO HAS DOLLARS IN INVESTMENT IN KENTUCKY'S COMMUNITIES.

AND HAS THE EXPERIENCE NECESSARY TO BUILD AN ECONOMY THAT WKS FOR ALL OF KENTUCKIANS.

THIS RACE IS ABOUT ECONOMI DEVELOPMENT.

SHOULDN'T THE PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY HIRE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPER?

AS YOUR NEXT COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE, I WILL BE THE DRIVER IN ROLLING OUT MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEM AROUND IT.

WE NEED TO GET GROW OPERATIONS UP AND RUNNING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

JATHAN ELL HAPPENHAPPENED WITH WITH MEDICAL MARIJUANA.

KENTUCKY, UNFORTUNATELY, HAS A HISTORY OF ACOMMISSIONERS PROMOTING FAIRY TALES.

AND WE'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE.

IF YOU ARE A SERIOUS FARMER, YOU HAVE SEEN A FEW OF THESE TALES.

WE KNOW THE STORIES OF THE CPS.WE THE AGRICULTURE FADS COE AND GOND WE SEE PEOPLE LIKE JONATHAN GET FLEECED BY THEM EVERY SINGLE TIME.

I'LL LET YOU IN ON SOMETHING I'VE KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME.

WHEN IT COMES TO AGRICULTURE, JONATHAN SHELLS LIVES IN A FAIRY TALE, HE HAS ALWAYS PICTURED HIMSELF ASNG BUT IN REALITY, JONATHAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN A DAMSE EL IN DISTRESS RIGHT NOW HE IS HOPING TO BE SAVED BY MAGIC DUSTING OF CAMPAIGN DONATIONS THAT HIS FAIRGOD MOTHER MITCH McCONNELL.UC TREASURER WILL BE MARK METCALF OR MICHAEL BOWMAN.

BOWMAN HAS RUN FOR THE OFFICE BEFOREHANDLY BEAT BY ALLISON BALL IN 2019.

REPUBLICAN MARK METCALF IS THE GARRETT COUNTY ATTORNEY.

BOTH MADE THE CASEHAT THEY HAD NEXTTATE TREASURER.E TO BE T TO OUR DEMOCRAT FRIENDS WE SAY WELCOME TO FANCY FARM AND TOUR G.O.P.

FAMILY RNION.

OUR MAJORITIES DIDN'T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT.

WE HAD LOTS OF HELP.

OUR DEMOCRAT FRIENDS FORGOT THE SMALL BUSINSWNER, MINER, THE TRUCKER THE CARPENTER, THE POLICEMEN ABDOMEN AND WOMEN WORKING IN KENTUCKY AND OUR DEMOCRAT FRIENDS FORGOT THE RATS REPLACED THE FAMILY WITH THE UNRELIABLE GREEN ENERGY.

SHOWS, DRAG SHOWS, AND ABORTION ON DEMAND.

THIS ISN'T CALIFORA, THIS IS KENTUC WRE GOD ISORSHIPED WHERE CHILDREN BORN AND UNBORN ARE LOVED.

WHERE MOMS AND DADS WO AND WHERE WOKE GOES BROKE.

DEMOCRATS ARE WORRIED AND THEY SHOULD BE.

MY DEMOCRAT OPPONENT HAS PROUDLY DECLARED HE IS AGAINST THE TAX CUTS PASSED BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

INSTEAD, HE HAS SUPPORTED THE GOVERNOR'S VETO OF TAX RELIEF TO HARD WORKING KENTUCKY FAMILIES.

I UNDERSTAND HARD WORK AND >> I KNOW HOWT O GET LOST ON THESE BAC ROADS, ALMOST AS EASY AS LOSING A WHISTLEBLOWER.

ASK JAM COMER.

I'M SURE HE WILL TELL YOU.

ON SECOND THOUGHT, MAYBE SOMEBODY WHO NEEDED THE GERM TO GERRYMDEA MAP JUST TO SURE HIS HOMIN IN HIS DISTRICT ISN'T THE BEST PERSON TOSK DIRECTIONS FROM.

A LOT OF YOU KNOW ME.

AND FOR OSE WHO DON'T, I'M GOING TO HELP YOU OUT.

MY NAME IS MICHAEL BOWMAN.

I'M A SIXTH GENERATION KENTUCKIAN AND GROWING UP I LEARNED THE IMPORTANT LIFE LESSONS LIKE CARING FOR YOUR ALHE RIGHT THINGS FOR PEOPLE.

AFTER BEING A BANK OFFICER FOR ONE OF THE LARGEST BANKSN THE COTRY, GOVERNOR BESHEAR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR COLEMAN ASKED ME TO JOIN THEIR ADMINISTRATION TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY BY WORKING TO EXPAND EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES ACROSS TH.

ENSURING THAT THE XT GENERATION OF WORKERS IN KENTUCKY ARE PREPARED FOR THE ECONOMY THAT WE ARE BUILDING.

IT HAS BEEN NEARLY 40 YEARS SINCE WE ELECTED A TREASURER WITH ANY PROFESSIONALRAINING OR EDUCATION IN FINANCE.

THK ABOUTHA YEARS.

AND WHAT DID THAT GET US?

IN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS ALONE WE VE HAD A TREASURER STA BY AND DOING IN WHEN A RECKLESS FORMER GOVNOR SLASHED EDUCATION, PRESSED FOR UNCONSTITUTIONAL CHARTER SCHOOLS, AND SPENT MILLIONS ON BOONDOGGLES.

NOW THEY'RE TRYING TO CONVINC T SOMNE ELSE WHO WILL DO THE SAME?

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

>> ReneeKENTUCKY'S FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT CONGRESSMAN JAMES COMER HAS BECOME A NOTABLE FACE IN WASHINGTON, BECAUSE OF HIS INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE BIDEN ADMINISTRA.

HE LEADS THE POWERFULOVMITTEE.

SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME ON THAT STAGE SATURDAY TALKING ABOUT THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE PRESIDENT'S SON, HUNTER, BUT HE ALSO MADE CLEAR HIS SUPPORT OF THIS YEAR'S REPUBLICAN TICKET.

I WANT TO SAY THIS PUBLICLY AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY.

I'M PROUD TO ENDORSE THIS ENTIRE REPUBLICAN TICK THIS NOVEMBER, ESPECIALLY OUR NEXT GOVERNOR, DANIEL CAMERON!

>> SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, DEPENDING WHERE YOU GET YOUR NEWS, THAT I'M LEADING A LITE INVESTIGATION IN WASHINGTON D.C. AT THE END OF JANUARY 2023, I BECAME CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.

AND THE FOUR BIGGEST NEWAPERS IN AMERICA HAVE WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY ON OUR INVESTIGATION.

THOSE NEWSPAPERS ARE THE NEW YORK POST, "THE NEW YOIMES," THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.

IN FACT, THEY HAVE WRITTEN OVER 250 ARTICLES ABOUT OUR INVESTIGATION.

NOW, USUALLY THEY DIDN'T START OFF RIGHT, BUT ONCE THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE STEPPED IN,.

IF YOU GET YOUR NEWS IN KENTUCKY OM THE FOUR BIGGEST NEWSPAPERS IN KENTUCKY, YOU HAVE READ A TOTAL OF ZERO STORIES ABOUT THAT INVESTIGATION.

>> TWO OF KENTUCKY'S CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS WILLOT BE ON BALLOTS THISAL STATE AUDITOR MIKE HARMON AND RYAN QUARLES.

BOTH RAN IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY FOR GOVERNOR.

QUARLES FINISHED A DISTANT SECOND BEHIND NOMINEE DANIEL CAMERON.

HARMON FINISHED SIXTH.

THEY SPOKE TO THE AUDIENCE AT FANCY FARM FOR THEAS TIME IN THEIR CURRENT POSITNS.

>> TODAY I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING THAT IS UNCOMMON, UNEXPECTED AND DOWNRIGHT RARE FOR FANCY FARM.

I'M JUST GOING TO SAY A SIMPLE THANK YOU, KENTUCKY.

THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY T SERVE YOU THE LAST 13 YEARS IN PUBLIC OFFICE.

IT HAS BEEN AN OPPORTUNI OF A LIFETIME TO SERVE AS YOUR COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND AS A LEGISLATURE AND I'M HERE TO SAY WE ARE JUSTETTING STARTED.

AND AFTER OFFER A DECAD OF TRAVELING OUR BEAUTIFUL COMMONWEALTH AND VISITING ALL 120 COUNTIES, SOMETHING I CALL COMPLETING THE 120 PROOF, MULTIPLE TIMES, I'M HERE TO TELL YOU JUST ONE THI.

NTUCKY IS WORTH THE FIGHTING R. ANKENTUCKY, I'M NOT DONE FIGHTING FOR YOU.

YOU YOU THINK SIN IS ABHORRENT BUT THE ONLY THING THAT IS A SIN IS VOTING REPUBLICAN, YOUHT BE A BESHEAR-BIDEN DEMOCRAT.

IF YOU HAVE EVER CALLED SOMEONE A SCIENCE DENIER BUT CAN'T DEFINE WHAT A WOMAN IS, YOU MIGHT BE A BESHEAR-BIDEN DEMOCRAT.

IF YOU THINK THE ONLY HUNTER THAT SHOULD HAV A GUN IS HUNTER BIDEN, YOU MIGHT BE A BESHEAR BIDEN DEMOCRAT.

IF YOU THINK SHUTTING DOWN A CHURCH WILL SAVE AIF BUT SHUTTING DOWNNBORTION CLINIC... YOU MIGHT BE A BESHEAR-BIDEN DEMOCRAT.

>> THE TWO GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS REPRESENTING FANCY RM'S PART OF WEST KENTUCKY ARE STATE SENATOR JASON HOWELL AND RICHARD HEATH.

THEY TOUTED THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE IN RECENT YEARS AND WASTED NO TIME ATTACKING THEIR PARTY'S MAIN TAET.

GOVERNOR ANDY BESHEAR.

>> WE PASSED BILLS AIMED AT ELIMINATING THE STATE INCOME.

MODERNIZING TAXE,NG UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND RKER'S COMP.

SUPPORTING LAW EORCEMENT, BUILDING OUR WORKFORCE AND MAKING OUR SCHOOLSAFER.

WE MADE HISTORIC PROGRESS IN PROTECTING THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE.

PARENTS RIGHT ARERE RIGHTS AS WL AS PREVENTING BIOLOGICAL MALES FROM COMPETING IN GIRLS SPORTS.

SORRY BOYS, PACK YOUR BAGS AND LEAVE THE FIELD.

WE HAVE IESTED 300 LLIO IN BROADBAND, 500 MLION IN UPGRADING AGINGATER INFRASTRUCTURE AND ALMOST $20 MILLION IN OUR PUBLIC PENSIONS.

GOOD TO SEE YOU WELCOME BACK.

TO THE DEMOCRATS OUT HERE, WELCOME TO WEST KENTUCKY.I THINM OUGHTF STATE SO I WANT TO HP YOU OUT A LITTLE BIT.

I KNOW YOU GET SCWEEM ISSUE WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT EATING MEAT.

LET ME TELL YOU.

I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO TRY THE MUTTON.

IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

TO THE REPUBLICANS UP HERE ON STAGE, WELMEK.

S GREATO HAVE YOU DOWN IN MY DISTRICT.

YOU CAN TL IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR WHEN THERE ARE PEOPLE ON THIS SIDE OF THE STAGE.

WE'LL BE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU BACK HERE IN FOUR YEARS.

>> KET'S FREQUENT POLICAL COMMENTATORS BOTH KENTUCKY'S SECRETARIES OF STATE HAVE BEEN ON THE FANCY FARM STAGE DURING THEIR POLITICAL CAREER.

FOR POST SPEECH ANALYSIS, THEY EACH SHARED MEMORABLE PUNCH LINES AND ZINGERS FROM SATURDAY.

>> WE HEARD A LOT O TALBO VALU, A LOT OF GIGGING ABOUT NOT COMING DOWN TO FANCY FARM THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS BY DEMOCRATS AND THE GROWTH THE PARTY AND WE HEARD A LOT FROM THE DEMOCRATS ABOUT THE GOVERNOR'S RECORD, YOU KNOW, HE DID THAT RECITATION OF ALL THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND HE WAS LESS POLIL IN HIS SPEECH WHICH MAKESENSE.INCUMBENTS TEND TO BES POLITICAL.

YOU RUN ON YOUR RECORD AND CAMERON NEEDED TO BE POLITICAL BECAUSE HE'S THE CHALLENGE.

IN GENERAL, BOTH SIDES DID A NICE JOB GETTING OUT WHAT THEY WANTED TO GET OUT.

I'M GLAD THE WATER HELD OUT AND IT WASOISTEROU AND GOOD ZINGERS AS ALWAYS.

>> Renee: WHAT DID YOUHINK THE MESSAGING FROM BOTH PARTIES, HOW DID IT RESONATE WITH YOU AND GIVE US A COUPLE OF THE BEST ONE LINERS YOU HEARD TODAY.

>> ALL THE DOWN BALLOT CANDIDATES DID A GOOD JOB.

THE CONSENSUS IS THAT THE DOWN BALLOT CANDIDATES HAVE AN EDGE BUT THE DEMOCRATS MADE A GD SHOWING AND SOID THE REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS AND NEW FACES ON THE STAGE AS WELL.

THE BATTLE WAS AT THE TOP.

BUT IF YOU ARE DOWN THE BALLOT YOU ARE NOT AS WELL KNOWN HERE ORSTATE THE TWO TOP CANDIDATE IS ARE.

I MEAN THEY'RE ON THE AIR, THEY'RE EVERYWHERE AND THEY'RE COVERED.

IT'S HARD TO GET DOWN BALLOT ATTENTION UNLESS YOU DO SOMETHING TERRIBLE.

TREY AND I HAVE LIVED THAT LIFE AND YOU DO HAVE T SHARE EVERYTHING Y CAN ABOUT ARE BACKGROUND.

I THINK THEY DID AN EXCELLENT JOB DEFINING THEMSELVES A SHARING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND LETTING KENTUCKIANS KNOW WHO THEY ARE.

>> THAT'S ALL FOR THE COVERAGE OF THE 143rd FANCY FARM PICNIC.

YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE ENTIRE AT ket.org/FANCY FARM.

>> Renee: AND STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE KENTUCKY POLITICAL NEWS WITH KENTUCKY EDITION MDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

I'M RENEE SHAW ALONG WITH CASEY PARKER-BELL.

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING AND WE WIEEOU AIN SOON.