By Angela Hatton
Murray, KY – Kentucky GOP candidates spoke to a crowd of around 200 people at this weekend's Lincoln Day Dinner. The fourteen candidates promised to cut spending and reduce big government. Gubernatorial candidate and current Senate President David Williams focused on his political record as a Republican leader in Frankfort.
"We stopped 300 million dollars of additional taxes last year, which would have affected the availability of capital. The worst kinds of things to do in this kind of climate that we have. And we stopped a billion dollars in additional debt."
Fourth term Jefferson County Clerk Bobbie Holsclaw also drew on her conservative fiscal record in her remarks.
"I spend money, your money, like it's my money, and come March, I will have given back to Jefferson County over six million dollars of their tax money."
Louisville businessman and self-proclaimed tea partier Phil Moffett says government needs to be run more like a business. He says Kentucky's debt is growing at an unmanageable speed. The candidates also focused on the need to reform the Commonwealth's pension and education systems.