A former Kentucky state auditor and a sports radio talk show host are launching a new statewide political entity. It’s called the New Kentucky Project. Adam Edelen and Matt Jones held a news conference Tuesday. in downtown Lexington. Kentucky Sports Radio’s Matt Jones says the aim is to have ‘on the ground’ representatives in each county. “But when we picked somebody in Owsley County, I talked to somebody in Owsley County and said, ‘do you like this person’, what is their opinion? Not whether or not they’ve given money to a party, not whether or not they’d ever run for office, but what do people think of this person?” asked Jones.
Edelen cited millennials as a demographic group who get political info in more social media ways. “We can get information out more effectively I think, using a new politics, that is a bottom up model, that I think will give us the ability to, not just to, help affect public opinion but to marshal people to perhaps lobby the legislature,” noted Edelen.
The aim is to have chapters in all Kentucky counties with a 20 dollar annual membership fee. Both Edelen and Jones say the formation of the New Kentucky Project is not about furthering any possible future political run.?
