Kentucky police union supports GOP candidate Daniel Cameron for governor.
Kentucky Attorney General Receives Endorsement from State’s Largest Police Union
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, the Republican candidate in the Kentucky gubernatorial race, received an endorsement on Tuesday from the state’s largest police union.
The Kentucky State Fraternal Order of Police said they would help support Cameron’s campaign against Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) in the 2023 gubernatorial election.
The endorsement decision was made by canvassing over 10,700 active and retired law enforcement officers in the FOP, and a final vote was made during a Kentucky State Caucus meeting to throw the organization’s support behind the GOP candidate.
Strong Support from Law Enforcement
“Attorney General Cameron has been a friend to the FOP since the day he stepped foot into public office,” Kentucky State FOP President and Clark County Sheriff Berl Perdue Jr. said in a press release.
The FOP said Cameron was the “overwhelming choice” for endorsement, but their membership “spoke passionately” about both contenders. The FOP previously backed Beshear for governor in 2019 while also supporting Cameron to take Beshear’s then role as attorney general.
The support from law enforcement comes amid Cameron touting his agenda as the governor’s race heats up, releasing an education policy plan on Tuesday. Dubbed the “The Cameron Catch-Up Plan,” Cameron blamed Beshear for the education setbacks during the pandemic.
“As a result of Andy Beshear’s lockdowns, our students are facing generational learning loss,” Cameron said in a press release. “Kentucky’s test scores have declined every year since Andy Beshear has been in office. He has failed our teachers, parents, and students. He’s robbed thousands of young people of their God-given potential and their shot at the American dream.”
The Cameron Catch-Up Plan
Under his education blueprint, Cameron has proposed:
- An increase for teachers’ starting pay to $41,500
- Reducing teachers’ administrative paperwork
- Creating state-backed tutoring programs to help students catch up from the time they lost over the pandemic
The Democratic lieutenant governor of Kentucky, Jacqueline Coleman, hit back against Cameron’s plan, saying it’s ”not fooling anyone.”
“Daniel Cameron has spent his time in office attacking our teachers and advocating to weaken our public schools with vouchers that would send public tax dollars to private schools,” Coleman said in a press release. “The plan he rolled out doesn’t even offer raises to teachers in the classroom today, and it’s not fooling anybody.”
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