Big Wins for Working Families in Kentucky and Virginia Elections
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When working families vote, working families win. Yesterday, they did both.
In Kentucky, an unprecedented mobilization by the state's unions helped fuel a landslide win—59–41 percent for Steve Beshear (D) who unseated incumbent Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R) in a victory especially sweet for working families. Fletcher canceled bargaining rights for state employees, privatized Kentucky’s Medicaid program and took other anti-worker stands.
Virginia union members, who knocked on doors, volunteered at phone banks and talked to their co-workers, were instrumental in ending more than decade of conservative Republican control of the Virginia state Senate. The four-seat pickup gives Democrats a 21–19 edge.
Check back later today when we will have more details on the Kentucky and Virginia races, plus reports from New Jersey, where 51 union members were running for state and local offices and other key contests across the nation.
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