Choosing sides in House leadership races

While many Americans look toward Election Day on Nov. 4 as the airwaves fill with ads and candidates refine their stump speeches, another election coming next year has many in Kentucky politics just as interested.
Following a legislative session this spring that left many lawmakers frustrated, the leadership elections in the Kentucky House next January promise [...]

Richards v. Stumbo

Jim Gaines with the Bowling Green Daily News talked to House Speaker Jody Richards and Rep. Greg Stumbo for an article this weekend as the two ramp up their campaigns for January’s House leadership elections. 
Stumbo, a Prestonsburg Democrat and former attorney general, announced last week that he would challenge Richards, a Bowling Green Democrat. 
One of the [...]

Stumbo begins speakership campaign with survey

Ryan Alessi with the Herald-Leader is reporting that Rep. Greg Stumbo kicked off his official campaign for speaker of the Kentucky House yesterday with a survey. 
The survey offers six questions that cover the budgetary process, support staff for legislators, how the caucus’s money is divided and how the House conducts its business each day while in [...]

KY House speaker’s race update

Here’s the response from House Speaker Jody Richards to Rep. Greg Stumbo’s announcement today that he would be challenging Richards in the leadership elections in January - 
“It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as Kentucky House Speaker, and I am confident I will be re-elected in January.  For several months I have [...]

H-L: Stumbo to run for speaker of the House

Rep. Greg Stumbo, the former state House majority floor leader and state attorney general from Kentucky, ended months of speculation today by telling the Herald-Leader he is running for House speaker.
Stumbo told the Herald-Leader’s Ryan Alessi and Larry Dale Keeling that he will challenge Rep. Jody Richards of Bowling Green, the state’s longest-serving House speaker, [...]