Tell the Candidates Where You Stand on the Issues

KFTC does a good job of asking candidates where they stand on issues leading up to Election Day, compiling their answers and getting them out to our members through our printed Voter Guides (which will be in the mail later this week!) and www.KentuckyElection.org.(which will also become live soon).

But we haven't generally done a great job of encouraging our members to contact candidates and tell them where they stand on issues - and that's at least as important. 

Email or call the campaigns to let them know where you stand on one or more issues.

Here is contact information for the two candidates for the big US Senate race:

1-866-232-9747

1332 Andrea Street, Bowling Green, KY 42104

Jack Conway - www.jackconway.org

502-632-1820

Online contact form

PO Box 6168, Louisville Kentucky, 40206

Of course, there are hundreds of candidates for other races in the state too, and you can use the Secretary of State's website to find out who's running in your area, then look then up.  Click a link below, depending on if you're searching for someone running for a state races or a local county race.

Click here for Statewide Candidates

(state legislature, etc.)

(City commission, Mayors, County Judge Executives, etc.)

You can also go to where the candidates are and talk to them...

at meet and greets, campaign stump speeches, etc.  Candidates have to get out and meet a lot of people to run a good campaign and Democracy works best when those people tell the candidates what stances they ought to have on important issues.  Keep an eye on your local newspaper to find out when and where you can meet the candidates you're interested in talking to.

Organize a meeting between local candidates and KFTC leaders.

Contact your local KFTC Organizer to put together a meeting with candidates in your community.  Candidate meetings are good opportunities to inform candidates about issues that KFTC works on.  If we meet with one candidate for a given office, we need to do our best to schedule meetings with his or her opponent as well.

If many of us take some time to contact candidates about issues we care about, it can make a real difference in their respective campaigns - and it's much easier to convince a candidate to change their mind on an important issue that it is to change the mind of a sitting legislator.