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Fancy Farm 2024 lacking 'star power' but political wheels still turning

Laura Cullen Glasscock



The 144th annual Fancy Farm picnic takes place this Saturday at Saint Jerome’s Catholic Parish in Western Kentucky and in addition to the bingo and barbecue comes the at-times bombastic political speechifying. In this special edition of WUKY's Capitol Chat we discuss a number of story lines behind the scenes with the editor and publisher of the Frankfort based Kentucky Gazette, Laura Cullen Glasscock.

Here is the list of scheduled speakers for this Saturday:

  • KY representative Richard Heath (R)
  • KY State Senator Jason Howell (R)
  • U.S. Congressman James Comer (R)
  • Erin Marshall (D)
  • Attorney General Russell Coleman (R)
  • Auditor Allison Ball (R)
  • Secretary of State Michael Adams (R)
  • Commissioner of Agriculture Jonathan Shell (R)
  • Treasurer Mark Metcalf (R)
  • Representative Elect for Graves/McCracken Counties (R)
  • Judge KY Court of Appeals Lisa Payne Jones
  • Candidate for Judge-Kentucky Court of Appeals Jason Shea Fleming
  • School Choice Amendment Representative Cherlynn Stevenson
  • School Choice Amendment Representative Suzanne Miles.

Again this year the political program will be broadcast live statewide beginning at 2:30 pm via Kentucky Educational Television.

Alan Lytle has more than 25 years of experience as a Kentucky broadcaster. Over that span he has earned multiple awards for anchoring, writing and producing news & features for WUKY. He took home the Kentucky Broadcasters Association's Best Radio Anchor award in 2021.