FIRST ON FOX: Republicans on Wednesday ripped Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear after the state’s attorney general determined that Beshear improperly rejected a request for records concerning school closures during the COVID pandemic, and said that decision shows why Beshear should be voted out of office this year.
On Tuesday, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Republican, found that Beshear had no reason not to comply with the records request from state Republicans, and several of Beshear’s possible opponents took notice.
“During COVID, Kentucky needed leadership, and instead we got lockdowns. We need a governor who has the courage to lead from the front and not follow the crowd,” former U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft’s campaign said in a statement to Fox New Digital.
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From left: Republican Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles, Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and former U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft.
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“Andy Beshear has proven time and again that he’s not up to the task of leading our commonwealth,” the statement said, echoing criticism Craft has dealt Beshear over his handling of the drug crisis plaguing Kentucky.
Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles, who holds a doctorate in higher education and is also running for governor, blamed Beshear’s school lockdowns across the state for the negative impacts he said had affected their learning.
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“As a former educator myself, I know that our children suffered due to excessive COVID lockdowns that we now know caused lower test scores around the Commonwealth. To be clear, the lockdowns have caused irreparable harm to students which will be felt for decades to come,” he told Fox.
“As governor, I’ll focus on keeping our schools open and correcting the…
