He's filing for Rep. Ken Fleming's (R) district, House 48

You know what, you’re right my commas are a mess there!

I talk to both the bill sponsor, Rep. Shane Baker and D Rep. Nima Kulkarni, a naturalized citizen and state lawmaker since 2019

Check back here tomorrow! @joesonka.lpm.org and I will be out in front of the Secretary of States office and will have the latest on who is filing to run for office in Kentucky this year

We heard similar stuff in 2024 but still saw a lot of seats where Republicans sailed through with no contest (story below)

Hopefully this week 🤞

The big task of lawmakers this #kyga26 session is to pass a two-year state budget, which will be more challenging than recent years, as @sylviaruthg.lpm.org and I explain here. Beshear will present his budget proposal tomorrow, and GOP House supermajority will present theirs at some point this week.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want a peak into that calendar too. What the governor, especially one apparently considering a presidential run, does on public time is very interesting and important

Link to the lawsuit here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

So this (with correction) is actually in line with what Beshear told me last week. Still predicting a shortfall, but it's pretty tiny compared to the overall state budget

I mean, unclear how much this was really tied to the shortfall, but that's part of what Beshear attributed this whole mess to:

"One man teared up when he learned from an LPM reporter that not everyone was being turned away, just him and a few others."

The Trump administration announced last week the pause on all immigration applications and U.S. citizenship processing for people from 19 countries