Matt Jones and Adam Edelen want to rebuild Kentucky’s ‘stale political system’

Two prominent Kentucky Democrats on Tuesday launched a nonprofit organization, the New Kentucky Project, to cultivate the next generation of political leaders.

Kentucky Sports Radio host Matt Jones and former state auditor Adam Edelen said their group isn’t a third party that will run a formal slate of candidates in 2018. Instead, it will organize and support people who want to run for elected office, especially local office, if they share four core values: civil rights for every Kentuckian; universal access to affordable health care; a living wage for workers; and the primacy of education.

Kentuckians are badly served by “a stale political system” in which Republican leaders promote a “far-right” agenda while Democratic leaders offer little in response but criticism, Edelen said. Kentucky is on track to become the next Alabama, a poor, unhealthy state that clings to the past, he said.

“It is clear to me that our political model is not working, that government as a delivery system for tangible results is not working, and it has to be changed,” said Edelen, who served one term as auditor until he was defeated last fall by Republican Mike Harmon.

Jones — a self-described progressive who considered running for Congress this year — said he has traveled to every county in the state to meet fans of his radio show, who tend to be politically conservative. These people are disgusted by constant partisan sniping in Frankfort and Washington because it does nothing to help their communities, Jones said.

Two ultra liberal - and stale - Democrats who just want to put a new face on the tired old policies that have driven this state into the ground...they're upset that the Republicans last election night had all of the youth, energy, and diversity that they claim to be for while the Democrats were just old white guys for the most part. Governor Matt Bevin (who had a very diverse family on stage) is cleaning out the crook and reforming things so that they are solved vs. Democrats using them every election cycle to drum up votes and upset people with, the first ever African American was elected statewide in Lt. Governor Jenean Hampton, the two youngest statewide elected officials in Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles and Treasurer Alison Ball who are both doing excellent jobs in their positions, the first ever Hispanic state legislator was elected in 2014 in state Senator Ralph Alvarado, and more. They are rock solid and changing this state for the better after decades of inept and corrupt leadership...mostly from Democrats. The problem for them is that we are NOT stale anymore and that vanquishes hope for them to retake control, so we have this farce coming to town to try to give to put some new make up on the old way of doing things.

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