We are counting down to Election with just over a week to go and debates out of the way Candidates at the top of the tic are spending the final days of the campaign embarking on bus Governor Andy Beshear stopped in several over the weekend, including Covington, Ashland and Attorney General Daniel Cameron began his bus tour today with stops in Lagrange, Fort Mitchell and Paynesville.

We caught up with both candidate for governor on the campaign tra and more on the messages they're delivering to supporters in these final days.

Tomorrow, we also hit the road and went to Kentucky to hear from you, the v Kentucky Edition's June Leffler asked people what i are driving them to vote in this year's election.

At Northern Kentucky University James Retton.

I have been studying music educa for about four years and I plan into music education, be a hopef a high school choir director.

Ryan already voted by absentee b for Democratic candidate Andy Be Governor Beshear brought humanity back to our edu under the Bevin administration.

There were numerous teacher strikes for better pay and to be treated fairly and to get our pensions funded.

We cannot focus on children and their education and their ne if our basic human needs, such as housing, food and internet connection and othe like that, are not being met and we can't meet those unless we have fair and competit Bashir is calling for an 11% raise across the board.

Republican candidate Daniel Cameron wants to bump fir teacher pay to more than $41,000 That's 3500 more dollars than th starting pay in Kentucky, according to the National Educat Association.

I see that as a way to try and m the teacher shortage crisis, But it doesn't solve the crisis because they're going to get a p in the first year.

But where are they going to get in subsequent years as they're moving up in their ca And more needs are being faced, especially for our young educato as we're trying to buy houses, g cars, start family is as we grow in our careers and as people and having more financial commitment That starting salary isn't going what we need in the future.

Beshear also supports fully fund universal pre-K, while Cameron has endorsed a 16 week tutoring to help struggling students.

But education is not all that's on voters minds.

And for Thomas Zachary Smith.

I am a local attorney in northern Kentucky.

I grew up in Louisville, and I am also a part of the boar of the Northern Kentucky Young Republicans.

I'm the the program director and I want to bring a college and I wanted to serve my communi So I ended up going to chase law for law school after Berea.

And I loved it so much up here.

I decided to stay.

Smith didn't agree with Governor COVID 19 lockdowns.

Though.

For Daniel Cameron, the main rea because one of our board members sue Andy Beshear for the right to go to church because the Kentucky State Polic threatened to criminalize him if go home for celebrating Easter S Freedom of religion is a corners in American democracy, and the right to go t church is above everything else.

For Smith, this is not a matter of the past I don't want any more COVID lock And I and I hope nothing happens Even if Andy Beshear does become that he tries to do that.

But I know that Daniel Cameron and I believe that if something like COVID, he would not shut down the economy and shut d churches like Andy Beshear did.

Smith also says Cameron is a bet and order candidate.

Cameron wants to add a Kentucky Police post to Louisville, where Smith's grandmother still lives in the West in.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm June L So you're going to hear from vot in other parts of the state late this week on Kentucky Edition.

And although Election Day is just a little bit more than a away, voting actually starts thi Early voting begins Thursday and runs through Saturday.

Kentucky's secretary of State, M Adams, who is running for reelec the best way to avoid lines at t is to take advantage of early vo You can find your voting locatio and see a sample ballot at go vo Y.

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