By Fayette Alliance / September 20, 2022 / Education
Welcome to Fayette Alliance’s 2022 Voter Guide! Each election, we educate voters through candidate questionnaires, to ensure everyone has access to where each candidate for Mayor and Urban County Council stands on smart growth issues. We sent our questionnaire to all Mayoral and Urban County Council candidates and we have posted their responses exactly as...
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By Fayette Alliance / September 20, 2022 / Education
Running for: Council District 4 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? A native of Williamstown in Northern Kentucky, I graduated from Georgetown College and headed out of state for graduate schools and my first college teaching job. Soon, though, I returned to Kentucky in 1983 committed to...
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By Fayette Alliance / September 20, 2022 / Education
Running for: District 9 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? I am a native of Lexington and have called the 9th District home my whole life. Lexington is a very special community and there are many reasons why I love this town. I love that we are...
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By Fayette Alliance / September 20, 2022 / Education
Running for: Council District 2 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? My professional career brought me to Lexington-Fayette County. In 2004, upon graduating law school I was hired by the Lexington Fair Housing Council. For 15 years I fought housing discrimination across the state of Kentucky and...
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By Fayette Alliance / September 20, 2022 / Education
Running for: District 1 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? I am a native of Lexington Kentucky and have always resided in the 1st District. There are plenty of reasons to love Lexington, Kentucky. Family, diversity, our educational system, including our higher education institutions, along with our...
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By Fayette Alliance / September 20, 2022 / Education
Running for: Council District 3 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? I first came to Lexington as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer to do a term of service at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, where I focused on youth literacy initiatives and poverty-fighting programming for young...
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By Fayette Alliance / September 20, 2022 / Education
Running for: Council At-Large Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? I am a life-long resident and I have deep family ties to the region. Question: Like the rest of the nation, Lexington faces critical challenges around developing adequate Affordable housing for low-income families and increasing attainable missing...
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By Fayette Alliance / September 20, 2022 / Education
Running for: District 12 Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? I attended the University of Kentucky where I met my husband and we ended up staying in Lexington after graduation. I love Lexington as it is such a unique community with a urban and a rural blend...
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By Fayette Alliance / September 20, 2022 / Education
Running for: Council At-Large Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? A job opportunity for my father at the University of Kentucky brought our family here in the late ‘80s. I moved away for about 10 years after college & moved back in 2006 when I started a...
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By Fayette Alliance / September 20, 2022 / Education
Running for: Council At-Large Question: What brought you to Lexington-Fayette County? What do you love about our community? I’m a Lexington native. The reason I stay is because I love the people in our community. Lexington is a great place to live and raise a family, it has strong educational opportunities, with several signature industries...
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