Fresh off the announcement she’ll run for governor in 2027, Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman made a campaign stop in Henderson on Wednesday afternoon.
More than two dozen supporters came to see the lieutenant governor, who earlier in the day visited Owensboro, where she said about 100 supporters showed up. She was scheduled to make a stop in Louisville Wednesday evening.
Coleman has run alongside Gov. Andy Beshear the last two elections and said Wednesday that she wanted to keep the momentum going from his time in office. She mentioned 70,000 new jobs and $40 billion in economic development that has come during Beshear’s terms.
Coleman announced her bid at a Monday morning press conference. She said Wednesday she plans to travel the entire state this week in support of her campaign.
A former teacher and assistant principal, Coleman spoke about the classroom during her Wednesday stop at Antler coffeehouse, saying that public schools are great breeding grounds for public service because a person gets an understanding of the issues families face.
She also touted the state’s recent economic development and pointed back to schools.
“The future of the economy we’re building is in the classrooms today,” she said.
She also said that, if elected, she wants to work with, not push against, what will most likely remain a Republican supermajority in the Kentucky General Assembly. She said the greatest challenge to Kentucky is currently the chaos coming out of Washington, D.C., and she wants to keep that out of the commonwealth so that the state can focus on what matters.
