Steve Beshear

We need to do something about expanding...

the affordable care act and what's not talked about much is the affordable care act that was i think elected two thousand ten or two thousand eleven that contained the medicaid expansion and that's a big deal this morning i went to hardy's in prestonburg that lady who served me my sausage biscuit makes ten dollars and fifty cents an hour thanks to the medicaid expansion she has health care currently the republicans are just on a vendetta to rip health care away and i saw rocky ackins speak very recently in hazard and what he said was and i had forgotten this that when steve beshear Embrace the Affordable Care Act, including the Medicaid expansion.

The uninsured rate went from 24 percent to 5 percent.

Currently, it's going up because of the Republicans have just had this hatred, vendetta, whatever you call it, but the Affordable Care Act.

Uh, I think it, it, it holds the lame duck accountable in that during that period, uh, you can't pardon people on your way out the door.

"Bevin abused the rule, but Steve Beshear pardoned the worst criminal of all.

Did you see the little horses?" Oh, yeah, we saw a lot of those.

In fact, uh, the one thing that, uh, I know my wife would've wanted to do, and I would've done it too, was a little horseback riding.

And, you know, that group of candidates, the only one that really comes from the South is Beshear, who's won in Kentucky in a deeply red state over and over again.

In part, you know, the family name of his father, Steve Beshear, who was also governor then.

carries a lot of weight there.

But I also think as you see the Republicans playing defense in their home states, the whole platform of our country's kind of what we see as red and blue states is really at issue today.

Well, yeah, that's exa- that's exa-

Bevin got reported, but what, uh, Beshear did, Steve Beshear did as governor going out of office, he issued all kinds of pardons as well.

He, he pardoned-

There weren't 600, though, were there?

Coal was the driving force for economic development in our area.

Congressman Hal Rogers and then-Governor Steve Beshear came together in a nonpartisan effort to try to help the counties that were affected.

The topics of discussion were tailored specifically to the needs of the region.

The summit hosted topical breakout sessions ranging from addiction recovery to childcare.

SOAR was created in 2013, and Rogers reflected on how it came to be, to be.

When we had that terrific, terrible killing of the coal industry, at the peak of that devastation, I went to Frankfort, sat down with Governor Steve Beshear, and we brainstormed about what could we do in view of the collapse of the coal industry.

And we talked and talked and talked.

Final result was we decided to call a summit of the leaders of Kentucky, especially East Kentucky.