Fancy Farm 2003
At the 2003 edition of the Fancy Farm Picnic, the spotlight at the speakers’ platform was on the Kentucky gubernatorial race and other state offices. Fancy Farm 2003: Pork, Pie and Politics, hosted by KET’s Bill Goodman and Renee Shaw, includes excerpts from the speeches and a little of the “flavor” that makes Fancy Farm unique.
Fancy Farm 2003
Program Sequence (total running time 56 minutes)
- scenes from breakfasts sponsored by the Republican and Democratic parties, with comments by Graves County party leaders Johanna Fox Turner (R) and Virgil Gilliam (D)
- background by reporter Barry Peel, WKYT-TV/Lexington, on the history and political importance of the Fancy Farm Picnic
- introductory remarks by former Democratic Gov. Wendell Ford; Chief Justice Joseph E. Lambert; and reporter Courtney Kinney, Kentucky Post
- speech excerpt: Ford on the Republican ticket
- speech excerpt: U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) on the current Democratic administration
- speech excerpt: Attorney General Ben Chandler, Democratic candidate for governor
- comments by Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Susan Westrom and Republican Party Chair Ellen Williams
- speech excerpt: U.S. Rep. Ernie Fletcher, Republican candidate for governor
- Charles Wolfe, Associated Press, introduces remarks by the candidates for lieutenant governor: Charlie Owen (D) and Stephen B. Pence (R)
- Jack Brammer, Lexington Herald-Leader, introduces remarks by the candidates for secretary of state: Russ Maple (D) and C.M. “Trey” Grayson (R)
- Al Cross, Louisville Courier-Journal, introduces remarks by the candidates for attorney general: Rep. Gregory Stumbo (D) and Jack D. Wood (R)
- Cross introduces remarks by the candidates for state auditor: Crit Luallen (D) and Linda Greenwell (R)
- Kinney introduces remarks by the candidates for state treasurer: incumbent Jonathan Miller (D) and Adam Koenig (R)
- Deborah Yetter, Louisville Courier-Journal, introduces remarks by the candidates for commissioner of agriculture: Alice Woods Baesler (D) and Richie Farmer (R)
- closing remarks by political commentator John David Dyche and journalists Peel and Cross