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Publication Date: October 01, 2012

Author: Jacqueline Pitts

Independent candidate for 6th district says he wouldn't vote if options were Chandler or Barr

10/01/2012 04:44 PM

With all the back and forth between Congressman Ben Chandler and Republican candidate Andy Barr, the 6th district Congressional race stays in the headlines, but the other candidate in the race feels he is being overlooked.

Randolph Vance is a third shift convenience store worker who is running a Congressional campaign entirely through social networking sites, like Facebook.

The race between Incumbent Chandler and Republican opponent Andy Barr is a re-match from 2010 where Chandler defeated Barr by only 648 votes. Vance was also a part of that race as a write-in candidate who received only 22 votes.

Vance says that 2010 run was meant to be a protest, but this time he is taking his run for Congress seriously.

And Vance says if he was not a candidate in the 6th district Congressional race, if faced with the choice of voting for Ben Chandler or Andy Barr that he probably just wouldn’t vote.

“Its shameful neither party knows how to work with the others anymore. If you had more Independents in Congress, you might see legislation get passed” (at 5:30).

Vance has what he believes is a different opinion on the issue of food stamps saying there should be more regulation on the program so that the taxpayer dollars are not going toward just junk food and it is used for to promote nutrition.

“My idea is lets go to a portion based distribution system where every month you get so many meat rations, you get so many dairy rations, so many grains and cereal rations, and this way you can plan your meals and enjoy them” (at 3:15).

Jacqueline Pitts

Jacqueline Pitts joined the cn|2 political team in June 2012. A graduate of WKU, Jacqueline grew up in Nashville, TN and is looking forward to having a front row seat to Kentucky politics. Follow Jacqueline on Twitter @Jacqueline_cn2. She can be reached at 502-792-1114 or jacqueline.pitts@twcable.com.

Comments

  • Mike wrote on October 02, 2012 04:53 PM :

    Interesting that neither candidate, he says, would work, essentially, across the aisle and yet that is exactly what some of us Democrats have been irritated with Ben Chandler about.

    However the prospect of having Andy Barr as our congressman is downright frightening. Just his adds where he has a non miner doubling down as a miner in the second ad shows how corrupt Barr is.

    So don’t compare them in that wa. Think about having a continued middle class, that Ben voted against “Obamacare,” that Ben votes pro coal, that coal MINERS in unions support him strongly.

    The guy doing that ad is, exactly as Ben’s ad says, a wealthy coal executive and even though he may go into a mine now and again, he is no more a miner than I am a high school student simply because I enter a high school building now and then.

  • Randolph Vance wrote on October 03, 2012 08:37 PM :

    The fight over whether Heath Lovell is a coal miner or a coal executive is like the old SNL commercial where Chevy Chase, Dan Ackroyd and Gilda Radner argue over whether New Shimmer is a Floor Wax or a Dessert Topping.

    I’m willing to concede that Heath Lovell WAS a coal miner who worked his way on up to executive. This should never have been an issue at all, it only serves as a distraction away from the real problems we face in 2014 with the EPA ready to shut down coal-fire plants.

    It also distracts from the issue of farmers being allowed to grow Industrial Hemp.

    http://tinyurl.com/rvance

    http://facebook.com/RandolphVanceForCongress

  • William Henry wrote on October 09, 2012 11:10 AM :

    Thankfully I will not have to vote for either Chandler or Barr. Instead I can vote for Vance, who appears intelligent, well spoken and was able to answer the questions honestly and coherently. I’m more than willing to give Vance a chance.

    Those who would vote for Chandler simply to keep out Barr or vice versa are seriously voting for the wrong reasons. Stop choosing between one evil just because you think the other choice is more evil!

    Wake up and try an independent or third party candidate. There is no way they could be worse than the career politicians who only work to help the big donors who fund the campaign cash to keep getting reelected. Maybe, just maybe, a guy like Vance will instead work to help the people of Kentucky.

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