Candidates for state treasurer and state auditor faced off during an appearance on Kentucky Educational Television network’s “Kentucky Tonight” show with host Renee Shaw.
Quarles has seven college degrees including a doctorate in higher education administration from Vanderbilt and a master’s in higher ed from Harvard University.
As part of the state’s rollout for legalizing sports betting, mobile applications were approved by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission in recent weeks.
In the “Safer Kentucky Act,” Republican legislators proposed 18 measures that would increase penalties for existing crimes, place restrictions on nonprofit bail funds and ban on “street camping” and homeless encampments in public areas.
Efforts across the country are part of a burst of anti-democratic activity at the state level, as Republican lawmakers and officials in recent weeks have run roughshod over long-standing norms of good government.