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Campaigner Carroll Hubbard Back on the Stage at Fancy Farm
Carroll Hubbard listens to Emcee Rocky Adkins. Photos courtesy of kilowat
When the local candidates take the stage, visitors wander off for a barbecue sandwich or pack up and start the long trip back up the Parkway. That was not necessarily the case with Carroll Hubbard, who has been a US congressman and is well known across the Commonwealth.

When Carroll took the stage, more than a few stuck around. Some stayed to jeer and others to hear the man who has been a fixture in Kentucky politics longer than some of them have been alive.


Carroll Hubbard said this is his 40th visit to the St. Jerome's Picnic. Hubbard is again a Graves County resident. He moved back after being narrowly defeated by former Democrat, former Republican, now independent Senator Bob Leeper. Hubbard came back to Mayfield and immediately began laying the groundwork for a race against Ken Winters, who is running for his second term.

Hubbard is a tireless campaigner who manages to get to almost every event in the district. He prides himself on constituent services.  There are few in the Purchase who haven't gotten a certificate, card, note or letter from Carroll Hubbard over his long career.

Hubbard told the crowd that age might be an issue in the presidential campaign, but since he is only a few years younger than Winters, it would not be on his mind.

A issue immediately on his mind is the need for a stoplight on Highway 121 North in Graves County. As he spoke of the need, he turned to Governor Beshear for assurance that the light would get done. The Governor nodded and smiled.

Local schools were also much on Hubbard's mind.

Last year, the Graves County School System faced a fight with parents of the small communities of Lowes and Fancy Farm. Both Lowes and Fancy Farm elementary schools are aging and in need of replacement, but a state regulation forbids construction of a new facility when the student population is under 300. Neither Lowes nor Fancy Farm met that threshold and to get a new school, the Graves County Board started the painful process of consolidating the two small schools and deciding where to put the new elementary.

Parents opposing consolidation took the Board to Court and in March, the Franklin Circuit Court ruled in favor of the parents. At the same time, the Kentucky House put one sentence in the budget exempting Graves County from the 300 student rule and granting Graves 5 million dollars toward a new school at Fancy Farm. That will be a start toward the 10 million estimated to build a new school.  

Hubbard mentioned a new school for Fancy Farm  and also urged that a new elementary school replace the present one in Carlisle County. 

Before closing his remarks, Hubbard reeled off a list of the precincts he had won in the primary and the margin of victory. The laundry list of victories was a message to Ken Winters that the people of Graves County had heavily supported him in May. (Winters had no primary).

Finally, he told the crowd that change is badly needed in the Kentucky Senate. When Sen. David Williams takes a sleeping pill, twenty one Kentucky senators nod off, Hubbard joked.

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