Fancy Farm 2004
The 2004 edition of Fancy Farm: Pork, Pie and Politics served as the kickoff event to KET’s fall election coverage in that presidential and congressional election year. Several documentary segments examined the political picture in Western Kentucky and the issues on the minds of regional voters.
Fancy Farm 2004
Program Sequence (total running time 56 minutes)
- introduction with hosts Bill Goodman and Renee Shaw
- comments by Lowell Reese (Kentucky Gazette) and Bob Babbage (a lobbyist and former state official) on the political climate in Kentucky
- speech excerpt: Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R)
- speech excerpt: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R)
- comments on the 2004 presidential race by Gerald Watkins, political science professor at West Kentucky Community and Technical College
- speech excerpt: Kentucky House Speaker Jody Richards (D)
- speech excerpt: Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo (D)
- speech excerpt: Sen. Jim Bunning (R)
- speech excerpt: state Sen. Daniel Mongiardo (D), Bunning’s opponent in the 2004 U.S. Senate race
- comments by Jim Moore (WYNC-AM) on the Western Kentucky economy
- comments on tobacco farming and the federal buyout with farmers Bobby Toon and Benny Wilson
- speech excerpt: U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-1st)
- speech excerpt: Billy R. Cartwright (D), Whitfield’s opponent in the 2004 U.S. House race
- comments by Jim Moore on the local importance of the Fancy Farm Picnic
- interview with Kentucky party chairs John McCarthy (R) and Bill Garmer (D)