Fancy Farm Picnic

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's efforts to land the No. 2 spot on the Democratic presidential ticket drew ridicule from prominent Republicans during the Bluegrass State's premiere political event on Saturday.

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.

In front of a raucous crowd at Kentucky's premier political event on Saturday, the Democratic incumbent Governor Andy Beshear talked about the state's high-flying economy while his Republican challenger, Attorney General Daniel Cameron hammered away on social issues.

The political epicenter of state politics will be in Graves County, Kentucky this Saturday at the annual Fancy Farm Picnic; a fundraiser for Saint Jerome’s Parish. And this event comes in the midst of a hotly contested gubernatorial campaign. Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock plans to be in the crowd this year and she talked about what she'll be watching for.

If you are a political junky in Kentucky then Graves County is the place to be this weekend as the annual Fancy Farm Picnic at St. Jerome’s Parish ushers in the campaign season with speeches, jabs and sometimes out of bounds attacks. Will that be the case this year given all of the devastation and flood cleanup on the other side of the state? For a preview we turn to Laura Cullen Glasscock, she’s the editor and publisher of the Frankfort-based Kentucky Gazette.

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