Independent gubernatorial candidate Drew Curtis isn’t making any solid predictions about voter turnout for Tuesday’s election. Curtis, founder of the news aggregation site FARK.com, says predicting his placement in the three man race is difficult. “Right now I’m gonna call low end two percent, high end 15 percent," Curtis said. "The real question mark here is what’s the turnout gonna be like? Because the lower the turnout, the better I’m gonna do because all of my people are coming.”
Outside of one early on, Curtis has not been allowed to participate in gubernatorial debates with republican Matt Bevin and democrat Jack Conway. Curtis says there are certain organizations that did not want an independent alongside traditional party candidates. “That system is actually designed to make sure that crazy third party candidates don’t get in there,” said Curtis “I got the impression, especially from all the media partners, that they deeply regretted the fact that that was in place, because they wanted more of me out there.”
Curtis believes the structure for funding the state’s education system needs to be fixed. He says the current practice of tying education funding to property taxes needs review. “I think we need to fix the funding problem," Curtis said. "I don’t know whether or not that’s changing the way property tax works or something else, but I think the funding problem is probably the more important part of that question."
Curtis says caps on property taxation for education have created funding limitations in the face of inflation rates. He also says teachers are not consulted on day to day instruction methods. The 42 year old Versailles resident is going up against democrat Jack Conway and republican Matt Bevin in the election.?
