Kentuckians for the Commonwealth’s New Power PAC has announced 70 endorsements for the 2018 November election, including eight in Northern Kentucky. Local KFTC members are working hard to get those candidates elected.
“The New Power PAC has chosen to endorse these candidates because we believe they share our values and support our issues, because we believe we can make a difference in their race, and because – when elected – they can make a difference in our democracy,” said Meta Mendel-Reyes, chairperson of Kentuckians For The Commonwealth.
The Northern Kentucky endorsements are for seven candidates running for the Kentucky General Assembly, and Seth Hall, running for the U.S. House of Representatives.
KFTC’s New Power PAC is supporting these Northern Kentucky candidates for the Kentucky General Assembly:
• Josh Blair, House District 63 (Boone and Kenton counties)
• Charles “Buddy” Wheatley, House District 65 (Kenton County)
• Roberto Henriquez, House District 66 (Boone County)
• Dennis Keene, House District 67 (Campbell County)
• Jason Kilmer, House District 68 (Campbell County)
• Col Owens, House District 69 (Boone and Kenton counties)
• Rachel Roberts, Senate District 24 (Bracken, Campbell and Pendleton counties)
KFTC member-led Democracy Teams in Northern Kentucky participated in an extensive, thoughtful and deliberate democratic process to recommend candidates running in their communities. They read over candidate surveys, researched their records and backgrounds, and met with candidates to learn more about them.
Throughout the fall, the teams registered voters, talked with voters at their doorsteps and on the phone, held events to let voters learn candidates’ views, sending mailings, promoted the importance of voting on social media and much more to encourage voting and support for their endorsed candidates.
Mendel-Reyes says KFTC will “do some of the things that other PACs do, such as mailings to voters and our members in particular. With 12,000 members, that is a lot of strength to begin with.
“But our most important activity is building on our experience in contacting voters, one by one, through door-to-door canvassing and phone banking. KFTC’s Action for Democracy initiative links together our issue work and our electoral work, so that our contacts with voters are based on real issues they care about.
“Because our members played the central role in deciding on endorsements, they are committed to working as hard as they can to help elect the candidates they believe in,” Mendel-Reyes concluded.
KFTC backed up its members’ activity by hiring 18 temporary voter empowerment organizers for the fall.