Voter Empowerment
Scott County Meeting and Potluck
Join members as we work on tax reform, fairness, voting rights, recycling, landfills and more! This will feature a presentation from Alicia Hurle regarding KFTC's voter empowerment strategy for 2018!
Meetings start at 6:30, and is a potluck! Bring something to share if you can, but make sure you come hungry! There's always plenty to go around.
Support efforts to restore ex-felon voting rights
Kentucky is one of only four states that ban former felons from voting, ranking third in the rate of disenfranchisement overall and first in disenfranchisement of African-Americans. Many states allow persons to vote once their sentences have been served and some never take away voting rights, allowing prisoners to vote.
Scott County Lobby Training
Join members of the Scott County Public Library for a grassroots lobby training! Learn about grassroots lobbying, what it is, why we do it, and how you can be a more effective grassroots lobbyist.
Northern Kentucky Lobby Training
Join KFTC and others as we prep members for meeting with elected officials and other decision makers by learning more about the legislative process, good guidelines to go by, practice mock lobbying moments, and more.
Reflections on the election of 2016
We are Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, a community of people inspired by a vision, building New Power and a better future, for all of us.
By now, you've likely seen lots of reflections, commentaries and postmortems on the election of 2016. We hope you have the stamina for one more.
Something big – titanic perhaps – happened on Tuesday. Our world has changed, as well as our pathways to change. The ultimate consequences of this election are uncertain, unknowable even. But the impacts are being felt across the country, across our Commonwealth, in our communities, schools and homes.
While many surrounding us are celebrating the new reality, most of KFTC woke on Wednesday possessed by grief, anger, dread about the future, fear about tomorrow, newly separated from at least some of our neighbors, perhaps even from family. We should take note that the feeling of vulnerability, of isolation that some of us may be experiencing for the first time, is not new at all for many of us.
The seemingly endless campaign of 2016 was, for most of the country, demoralizing, embarrassing, repulsive. It was a campaign dominated by cynical attacks and baseless blame, fueled by exploiting fear. The damage inflicted by such tactics on our people and our democracy is profound. We must overcome their impact and reject their continuation.
We encourage each of us to take the time to take care of ourselves, to linger but not loiter with our grief. We need to support each other, and stand in solidarity with those most at risk.
We encourage each of us to listen – to our heart, to our family, our community, one another – so that we may understand our common anxieties and our shared aspirations.
Then we step forward, together, with courage and conviction, with determination and integrity. Some things changed on election day; more things did not. Our resolve, our core values, our vision for a better Kentucky, our commitment to action for justice, are as certain, as reassuring, as ever.
We are Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, and together, we are our best hope for change.
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