I'm Laura Rogers and it is time for our midweek check in with Ry.

Linda Barton, a senior editor for the NPR States team.

And Raelyn, let's begin with State Representative Daniel Grossberg.

This is one of those stories that we've been talking about for several weeks now.

There are new calls today, Senate Democratic leadership calling for him to resign, to step down, joining several others who have voiced the same concerns.

Tell us more about that statement that was released today.

Yeah, this continues to develop and it's a big step for Senate Democrats to call for him to step down.

Last week, House Democrats, where he's a member of the House of Representatives, representatives, they officially kicked him out of their caucus so he won't be able to vote on leadership or or caucus with them, you know, where they're kind of planning on discussing what bills are coming up.

And last week, Governor Bashir to also call for him to resign.

So the Democrats have really lined up for this and he continues to be defiant, says that he's done nothing wrong here, says that what what's been reported by the Lexington Herald-Leader and others is it's been misconstrued.

But accounts continue to come in.

Last week, the Herald-Leader published a story about how he had been kicked out of a strip club, Louisville strip club, how he'd allegedly offered money for sex with somebody there.

So it's it continues to not look good for him.

And but he he says he's seeking treatment to help deal with his impulses, behavior.

But so far, he's not saying that he's going to step down, actually.

And you think about how hard it would be to legislate when members of your own party are urging you to step aside.

Yeah.

In such a small group of Democrats already, I mean, there could be a different shape after the election.

But there's only 20 Democrats in the House right now out of 100.

Right.

An issue that's getting a lot of attention as we draw closer to Election Day is amendment two.

That will be on the ballot concerning public dollars for private schools.

And we have seen this I'll call it a tweet, but it was on, I suppose, a Republican state lawmaker tweeting this satirical video, but saying, hey, this isn't satire, this is real.

And it appears to be a humorous attempt at drawing attention to amendment.

To tell us more about this situation.

A bit sticky there.

Yeah, it started out as a humorous tweet from somebody.

And then Pike County, who is he was kind of basing off a story that had come out of Letcher County where Letcher County had bought it, an SUV, which the county says that they're using to transport kids to various events is something that could hold nine passengers.

So they said it was well worth the money.

But this blogger or this person put out a video saying that it was more expensive SUVs and a state.

Robert Lindsey tipster actually retweeted it, saying that this is such an example of waste in the system and how lawmakers need to pass Amendment two, which is this school choice amendment, which would allow some money to go to non nontraditional public education and saying that would be a solution of it.

Louisville Public Media Kentucky Public Radio's Sylvia Goodman kind of check this, the kind of show that this is all a series of misunderstandings here, but also that that this school choice knew who was taking advantage of these of these tweets and claiming that they're true.

The tweets are still out there.

But this is just there's it's getting to a little bit of that silly season ahead of the election where one people are on a hair trigger to look for to look for that kind of news.

But also it's something that can confuse voters.

And, you know, this is a big blow.

It could amend the state's constitution to change how public dollars can be spent, not only allowing just for public education, but for some of these nontraditional public efforts as well, possibly like charter schools, possibly like school vouchers.

So that's something that all Kentuckians can weigh in on on November.

Yes.

And we are seeing that conversation heat up.

We've had several community forums and panel discussions, and we're hearing all different kinds of reasons whether to vote yes or no on this amendment.

Yeah, this group of superintendents are really worried about what this would do to the current state of public education in Kentucky, because it's it ultimately leads to a law passing where more kids who are currently in public schools would be going to some of these nontraditional schools.

They would undoubtedly to decrease in funding for a lot of these public school districts.

They were citing an analysis from the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy.

It's a progressive group that does a lot of kind of budget and policy analysis.

And they showed we look at some other states and how voucher programs have worked out there, what it would look like in Kentucky.

And, you know, and some of the the decreases in funding and also in student enrollment in those areas is stark.

And those superintendents are saying, well, I think the state needs to do.

Sure, they acknowledge that public school system has its problems.

They just need to they need to put more funding into it, not less.

And that a voucher program, for example, would end up costing hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

So, yeah, there's that.

But then also some high profile folks rallying in support of the amendment.

KELLY Paul licensed Rand Paul would also that conservative commentator and you know right is rallying support along with that former lieutenant governor Jeanine Hampton in Bowling Green yesterday as you mentioned trying to get folks who do have those frustrations, the public school system.

So here's a will see a lot more ads over this next where we got five six weeks until Election Day.

And this is really the big thing on the ballot in Kentucky this year.

Rylan, great talking with you as always.

We really appreciate it.

Great to see to our.