We got a question from Paul Oliva on Facebook asking about who's running for the democratic nomination in the K-Y-oh-six congressional race. That's our district here, right?

That's right, the sixth district covers Lexington and Fayette County plus the counties around us. There are five Democrats in the primary - Cherlynn Stevenson, Zach Dembo, David Kloiber, Erin Petrey, and Corey Edwards. The primary's on May nineteenth.

I recognize Cherlynn Stevenson's name. Wasn't she in the legislature?

She was a state representative for District eighty-eight from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty-five. She calls herself a "Mountain Democrat" because of her Eastern Kentucky roots, though she lost her state house seat last November. She's got an endorsement from Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman.

What about the other candidates?

Zach Dembo's probably the most interesting - he's a former federal prosecutor who left the Department of Justice earlier this year when Trump came back into office. He's also a Navy veteran. David Kloiber ran for Lexington mayor in twenty twenty-two and served on city council. Erin Petrey's positioning herself as the progressive in the race and says she's not taking any corporate money.

This is Andy Barr's seat, right? He's been pretty solid there.

Actually, Barr announced last April he's running for Senate instead, so this is an open seat for the first time in years. Barr's won his last three elections by an average of twenty-four percentage points, but Governor Beshear actually carried this district by about twenty points in his reelection. So there's definitely a path for Democrats if they can put together the right coalition.

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