Kentucky Governor candidate Andy Beshear stopped in Owensboro Monday to open a field office for his campaign. He arrived to a full room at the Daviess County Democratic Party office, where Beshear and Lieutenant Governor hopeful Jacqueline Coleman addressed the importance of western Kentucky.
Beshear and Coleman stopped in Henderson before arriving in Owensboro. The two planned a similar stop in Bowling Green immediately following their time in Daviess County.
Beshear spoke with Owensboro Times on his drive to Bowling Green, discussing his western Kentucky roots that began with his father, former Gov. Steve Beshear, who was born in Hopkins County.
“Western Kentucky is as important to me as any other part of the state,” he said. “That’s why I am opening my second, third and fourth office in the area. When you campaign, you have to show people where your priorities are.”
Beshear said he was impressed with the turnout Monday afternoon.
“It was a packed room,” he said. “They couldn’t all fit.”
But more than anything, Beshear said, it was the energy the crowd brought that impressed him the most. He said the energy Monday afternoon was much like the energy he felt at Fancy Farm — the historic church picnic that is now Kentucky’s premier political debate — that was held earlier this month.
“Our crowd was five times larger and 10 times louder,” Beshear said.
With just over two months to go in the campaign, Beshear said he is proud that his team has knocked on more than 140,000 doors in Kentucky.
“Voters deserve to see people from this campaign in person,” he said.
According to Beshear, this isn’t the last time that Daviess County will see him or his campaign. He said he intends to build the I-69 bridge as well as promote agritech jobs in the region.
“You will hear that vision for western Kentucky a lot on my campaign,” he said. “I am committed to this area.”
