A powerful and diverse group of twenty community members gathered in Georgetown tonight for the local monthly voting rights meeting to talk about recent events and to plan new community outreach.

Two members reported-back on a recent meeting with Senator Damon Thayer.

"I wonder if Senator Thayer realizes that voting is how he got elected," observed new member Willie Gossey after listening the story, "and important voting is to getting him re-elected."

Many members shared stories of recent ground-work in the community, passing out flyers, tabling, and engaging people on the issue of restoring voting rights.

"Once I share a little about myself, people really seem to open up..." said Tayna Fogle, a former felon spokesperson active in the campaign. "They tell me about family members or friends who are former felons and can't vote either."

Jerry Moody also lead a presentation talking about KFTC's history, vision, and statewide program of work. 

"Another thing about KFTC is that we're growing every day," said Jerry.  "And we're not going to give up."

This particular night, we grew by four members as the new people at the meeting turned in their membership envelopes.

 

Homer White lead a piece of the agenda in which we planned future events and members volunteered to help staff them.

Some of our big upcoming events include:

- September 12th – Festival Latino in Georgetown.  Voter registration.

- September 12th – Roots and Heritage Festival in Lexington.  Big Voting Rights Tabling event.

- September 14th – Scott County NAACP Meeting – 7pm at the Scott County Public Library.

- September 17th - Never Alone Meeting - Support group for families of the incarcerated.

- September 23rd - Georgetown Community Connections Meeting – 11:45am Cardome Center Basement.

- September 24th – Rally for Recovery – Lexington 11-7 Triangle Park.

- September 24th – Grant County Democrats Voting Rights Presentation.

- September 26th – Georgetown College Leadership Retreat and KFTC presentation.

- October 1st – Georgetown Voting Rights Meeting.  6:30pm at the Ed Davis Learning Center.

- October 2nd-4th Festival of the Horse – Downtown Georgetown.  Walking with clipboards to register voters and ask people to sign voting rights clipboards.