{"id":2001854,"date":"2023-08-15T20:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T00:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-gubernatorial-candidate-daniel-cameron-receives-backing-from-kentucky-police-union\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T00:54:08","slug":"gop-gubernatorial-candidate-daniel-cameron-receives-backing-from-kentucky-police-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-gubernatorial-candidate-daniel-cameron-receives-backing-from-kentucky-police-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky police union supports GOP candidate Daniel Cameron for governor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-gubernatorial-candidate-daniel-cameron-receives-backing-from-kentucky-police-union%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2001854&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Kentucky Attorney General Receives Endorsement from \u200bState&#8217;s Largest Police Union<\/h2>\n<p>Kentucky \u200dAttorney \u200bGeneral \u200cDaniel Cameron, the Republican candidate in the \u2062Kentucky gubernatorial race, received an endorsement \u2062on Tuesday from the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/slap-in-the-face-chicago-cops-vote-no-confidence-in-mayor-lori-lightfoot-police-chief-david-brown\/\" title=\"\u2018Slap In The Face\u2019: Chicago Cops Vote \u2018No-Confidence\u2019 In Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Police Chief David Brown\">largest police union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Kentucky State Fraternal Order of Police said they would help support Cameron\u2019s campaign against Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) in the 2023 gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The endorsement decision was made by canvassing over 10,700 active and\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-assault-weapons-ban-along-party-lines-likely-doomed-in-the-senate\/\" title=\"House Passes \u2018Assault Weapons\u2019 Ban Along Party Lines, Likely Doomed in the Senate\">retired law enforcement officers<\/a> in the \u200cFOP, and a final vote was made during a Kentucky State Caucus meeting to throw the organization&#8217;s \u2062support behind the GOP candidate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Strong Support from Law Enforcement<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cAttorney \u2062General Cameron has been \u200ba friend to the FOP \u2063since the day he stepped foot into public office,\u201d Kentucky State FOP President and Clark County Sheriff Berl Perdue Jr. said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The FOP said Cameron was the\u200b \u201coverwhelming choice\u201d for endorsement,\u200c but their membership \u201cspoke passionately\u201d about both contenders. The FOP previously backed Beshear for governor in 2019 while \u2064also supporting Cameron to take Beshear&#8217;s then role as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ag-barr-authorizes-federal-prosecutors-to-pursue-substantial-allegations-of-voting-irregularities-before-2020-election-is-certified\/\" title=\"BREAKING: AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors to Pursue \"Substantial Allegations\" of Voting Irregularities Before 2020 Election is Certified\">attorney general<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The support from law enforcement comes amid Cameron touting his agenda as the governor\u2019s\u200c race heats up, releasing an education policy plan on Tuesday. Dubbed the &#8220;The\u2064 Cameron Catch-Up Plan,&#8221; Cameron blamed\u2064 Beshear for the education \u200bsetbacks during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of Andy Beshear\u2019s lockdowns, our\u2062 students \u2063are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-gubernatorial-candidate-daniel-cameron-receives-backing-from-kentucky-police-union\/\" title=\"Kentucky police union supports GOP candidate Daniel Cameron for governor.\">facing generational learning \u2062loss<\/a>,\u201d Cameron said \u2064in a press release. \u201cKentucky\u2019s test scores have declined every year since Andy Beshear has been in office. He has failed our teachers, parents, and students.\u2063 He\u2019s\u200c robbed thousands of young people of their God-given potential and their shot at the American dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>The\u2064 Cameron Catch-Up Plan<\/h3>\n<p>Under his education blueprint, Cameron has proposed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An increase for teachers\u2019 starting pay to $41,500<\/li>\n<li>Reducing teachers\u2019 administrative paperwork<\/li>\n<li>Creating state-backed tutoring \u200bprograms to help students catch up from the time they \u2064lost over the pandemic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Democratic lieutenant governor of Kentucky, Jacqueline Coleman, hit back against Cameron&#8217;s plan, saying it&#8217;s \u200c&#8221;not\u200d fooling anyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDaniel Cameron has spent his time in office attacking our teachers and advocating to weaken our public schools with vouchers that would send \u2062public tax dollars to private schools,&#8221; Coleman said in a press release. &#8220;The plan he\u200c rolled out doesn\u2019t even offer raises to teachers in the classroom today, and it\u2019s not fooling anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron, a Republican candidate for governor, gained endorsement from the state&#8217;s biggest police union. The Kentucky State Fraternal Order of Police pledged support for Cameron&#8217;s campaign against Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) in the 2023 election. Meanwhile, the School Freedom Fund released an ad criticizing Kentucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}