Fancy Farm 2002
The 2002 edition of KET’s Fancy Farm: Pork, Pie and Politics featured excerpts from speeches by candidates in the 2002 U.S. Senate race, the sitting governor, several members of the Kentucky congressional delegation and various allies and opponents, and no fewer than 10 potential gubernatorial candidates.
The program is co-hosted by Renee Shaw and Bill Goodman.
Fancy Farm 2002
Program Sequence (total running time 54 minutes)
- background on the Fancy Farm Picnic
- speech excerpt: Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton (D)
- interview: former Gov. Louie Nunn on Fancy Farm
- speech excerpts: 2002 U.S. Senate race:
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R, incumbent)
Lois Combs Weinberg (D, McConnell’s opponent)
U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning (R) - interview: Danny Briscoe, former chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party
- speech excerpts: 1st District congressional race:
U.S. Rep Ed Whitfield (R, incumbent)
Clint Alexander (D, Whitfield’s opponent) - interview: Fancy Farm Picnic Chair Todd Hayden
- speech excerpts: possible candidates for governor in 2003:
U.S. Rep. Ernie Fletcher (R)
Lt. Gov. Steve Henry (D)
Jefferson County Judge Executive Rebecca Jackson (R)
Kentucky Attorney General Ben Chandler (D)
Sen. Virgil Moore (R)
Rep. Jody Richards (D)
Rep. Steve Nunn (R)
Charlie Owen (D)
Bert Minton (R)
Sonny Landham (R) - interview: reporter Al Cross of the Louisville Courier-Journal
- interview: Earl Lynch, a local resident attending his 76th Fancy Farm Picnic
The set of speeches by potential gubernatorial candidates begins approximately 28 minutes into the program.