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Kentuckians!

The time is now.

Geoff Young was the only Democratic candidate that showed up for the Kentucky Press Association Forum at the Mariott East in Louisville, Friday, January 23, 2015, 9am to 10:15am. Jack Conway would blame a “scheduling conflict” for being a no-show, but Conway would also slight Geoff yet once again in only mentioning the Republican candidates in the midst of his poor excuses. Conway is afraid to debate Geoff, and that's why he was a no-show.

On December 28, 2014, Young sent an email out to Jack Conway wanting to debate the topic: “Are Mitch McConnell and Steve Robertson the two most vicious racists in Kentucky?” Had Conway agreed, we would have seen a debate among the Democratic candidates last week.

Over $100 million spent on this last Senate election, and nothing to show for it. Kentucky is in dire need of a “gentleman's conversation” about the myriad of issues Kentucky is faced with.

Perhaps a series of Lincoln-Douglass debates is still an option for Conway and Young.

In spite of there being at least 30 reporters at the Kentucky Press Association Forum, hardly a peep was heard from big media about Geoff Young's comments. Also, there were video cameras rolling at the Forum, yet no video has surfaced yet. So far, nothing.

Of course everybody knows that the media is a business. While it should be their job to inform and educate the masses, most of the time, the media is focused on the peripheral, the sensational, whatever gets folks to buy newspapers: “If it bleeds, it leads.” Media only care to make their advertisers happy, and they do so by getting as many viewers as they possibly can, which makes you, the audience, the commodity that is being bought and sold.

All of the candidates who had the guts to show up—Heiner, Comer, Scott—were all in support of extended gaming. If you merely relied on traditional media, you wouldn't know what actually happened at the Mariott East event.

The only coverage that gave Young more than a mention was the Lexington Herald-Leader, which gave Young this one single sentence of coverage:

“For more than an hour, the only dissenting voice was Young's as he defended a single-payer health care system, accused U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of racism and encouraged Republicans to join Planned Parenthood.” http://www.kentucky.com/2015/01/23/3657171_with-few-policy-differences-republican.html?rh=1

Geoff Young stole the show at the Kentucky Press Association, but if one only read or watched major media, one wouldn't even have known that Young even showed up. While not mentioning Young in his newspaper articles, Joe Gerth did live tweet the event under #kygov15.

Let's recap what happened on January 23, 2015:

1 – Geoff Young defended a “single-payer” healthcare system. Geoff Young said that the Republican position Obamacare and Medicaid is “immoral.”

2 - Geoff Young invited the Republicans to join Planned Parenthood, considering that “Planned parenthood is the best abortion prevention medicine around.”

3 - Geoff Young supports raising gas tax to pay for roads, and Young supports the lawsuit by Courier-Journal and Herald-Leader to open child protection records.

4 – Young pointed out that Mitch McConnell's, and the Kentucky Republican Party's, illegal election violation was poorly handled by the Attorney General. Young made the connection that voter suppression is inherently racist, presciently, considering Selma is in movie theaters today.

5 – Geoff Young slammed the Republicans on education: “I haven't heard a Republican yet make sense on the subject of education.”

6 – Geoff Young vowed to stopping “the Republican class war.”

Folks all around the Commonwealth are getting lined up to speak with Mr. Geoff Young, and to hear about his ideas for change, especially to help reorganize local Democratic parties, to be stronger, for this, and future campaigns.

Geoff Young has been speaking with 30 candidates, and has made a “short list” of folks who want to be “on deck” to bat as Young's Lieutenant Governor.

These are the 4 issues Geoff Young is going to talk about across the Commonwealth:

1 – Energy Policy

2 – Abortion

3 – Racism

4 – Class war

The Republican candidates were falling over themselves in their complete and utter undying love and support for Fracking, while Young calls Fracking the real “war on coal” on his website. For Geoff, he could tell the 3 Republicans apart “even with a powerful microscope.”

Here's Geoff's website: http://young4ky.com/

young4ky.org
young4ky.net
and
young4ky.info

also work too.

Let's get Geoff's campaign started on the right foot. Sometimes the most dangerous man in politics is an honest man, and Geoff is that honest and good man, who is not afraid to speak the truth. Kentucky's 2015 Gubernatorial election is going to be memorable. Let's chip in, $5, $10, $20, $100, every bit helps, to move Geoff towards a 120-county campaign!


It's real simple to donate. You do not need an account to donate, but you will need to know your name and your address and some other basic information, for credit card verification. And you can leave a tip to ActBlue if you want.

Or you can send your checks, along with your name, address, job, employer, to:

“Geoff Young for Kentucky Governor”
454 Kimberly Place
Lexington, KY 40503

Remember, only $1,000 is the allowed maximum donation per individual for the Primary. You will have an opportunity to donate another $1,000 in this historic campaign after the Primary to help Geoff win it in the home stretch for the General Election.

Johnathan Masters
Young Campaign Coordinator

Written January 26, 2015

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