Since the primary election in May, Madison County KFTC members have been busy meeting with all the candidates running in the 2010 general election for state house and senate seats in the county.  The chapter organized “candidate issue briefings” with the candidates.  The issue briefings were designed to be an educational opportunity for candidates to learn more about KFTC’s state legislative agenda.

The issue briefings covered fair and comprehensive tax reform, voting rights, clean energy solutions, and protecting Kentucky’s rivers and streams from mountain-top removal valley fills.  So far, the chapter has held five candidate issue briefings and are in the process of scheduling the last one.

These issue briefings have been especially important in Madison County this election cycle because two state legislative seats are “open” seats (there is no incumbent running for re-election). 

Berea KFTC member Carey Hanson agreed. “These issue briefings let us put our platforms out there with the candidates running for the first time.  It also lets us continue our dialogue with sitting legislators running for re-election.”