27th Senate district candidate stresses Fleming County roots

Kentucky’s 27 ^th Senate district consists of eight counties, from a portion of Fayette north to Mason and east to Rowan. But it’s Fleming County that Molly Gene Crain returns to again and again on the campaign trail and during an interview with WEKU.

“This campaign, in many ways, is a love letter to Flemingsburg, where I grew up, how much it means to me. And, you know, just the struggles I think that I witnessed my family go through, and I think for the last decade, decade of my life, I've been focusing on, you know, a career path that would lead me into public service.”

The 33-year-old obtained her law degree from the University of Kentucky in 2022 and last year, on the first filing day, she signed up. Before that, she interned with then-Congressman Ben Chandler. Crain says she has farming roots on both sides of her family – Crain’s Tobacco Warehouse in Maysville and the Bluegrass Stockyards in Lexington.

She calls her platform “The four F’s,” adding, maybe it’s five.

“Supporting our families’ farms, funding for our public schools, infrastructure and economic development plans, and when it's all said and done, fixing Frankfort, then people normally laugh at that point, because that's a tall order.”

Asked what she can accomplish in what will almost certainly be a super-minority, Crain cites an example of legislation a senator and state representative, both Democrats, helped pass.

“I like to use what Senator Cassie Armstrong Chambers and Chad Aull were able to accomplish with, you know, SNAP benefits, that legislation and making partnerships across the aisle, making sure that we can provide more free lunches for kids who are coming from food-insecure families.”

Crain says the 27 ^th district is her party’s best chance to knock off a Republican and to that end, her campaign has knocked on more than 8,000 doors and held a meet and greet in every county of the district.

Senator Steve West did not respond to several interview requests from WEKU.

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