Opinion | Rep. Attica Scott: What the Kentucky governor's race results say about progress, according to a Kentuckian. - NBCNewsTHINK
, among others. If we didn’t speak up for ourselves at the voting booth, we knew there would have been no one left to speak for us.
But Beshear did not win easily. He had to work hard to earn the votes of young people, women and people of color. I was, admittedly, one of the many people who did not choose Beshear in the primary election. I did, however, choose Kentucky in the general election Tuesday.Now, it's time for us to hold the governor-elect accountable and to show up for one another in ways that have historically been avoided and ignored, and we will expect Andy Beshear to do the same.
It's possible for Democrats to win across Kentucky when we show up for racial justice, speak out for reproductive justice and stand up for equity and fairness. We are a multi-issue state full of immigrants and refugees , young people, people living in poverty and people who have been marginalized. We can and will win when we build our political power across the state and see ourselves united — from the hollers to the 'hoods. We can win when we are bold enough to support Black statewide candidates and when we authentically campaign the same way in central Kentucky as we do in eastern Kentucky, northern Kentucky and western Kentucky.
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