Steve Beshear
David Williams
Gatewood GalbraithRICHMOND, KY (WAVE) - The three men who want to be Kentucky governor took swipes at each other at their first face to face debate.
Democrat Steve Beshear, Independent Gatewood Galbraith and Republican David Willams squared off at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond Tuesday night. Among the issues that brought out some jabs was Louisville's Ohio River bridges project.
"The Louisville bridges project, it has gone farther in the last 18 months to two years under the cooperation between Governor (Mitch) Daniels (of Indiana) and myself than its gone in 40 years," said Beshear. "It started being talked about when Dwight Eisenhower was president. We're now within about a year of putting a spade in the ground and finally getting those things underway."
"If you believe that there's going to be a spade in the ground to break ground on the Ohio River bridges project in ten months, when there's not a finance plan in place, there's even no approach or theory as to what forms they're going to use," said Williams. "They've drug their feet on this and if you're in Louisville, you ought to be mad as fire about this situation."
"These people have been in office all this time. It's amazing how educated they've become to the problems of the state of Kentucky, but it never seems to come to the fore until it's election time coming around," said Galbraith. "These people have had the money, they've had the resources and they've failed us all."
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