CO THE COURIER-JOURNAL KY FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1999 D5 Election veteran makes third try for Kentucky governor KENTUC J0 fessional wrestler Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota on the Reform ticket, giving the party a national boost. It has candidates in several elections this year, including the race for governor of Mississippi. Galbraith said he hopes to get help from Ventura, but for now his only famous helper is singer Willie Nelson, an old friend who will perform at a fund-raising concert in Lexington on Sept. 2. In nominating Galbraith, the Reform Party gets a candidate with more name recognition than most of its nominees.
Galbraith gets the advantage of a state and national party structure. Longmire said the parry's Kentucky mailing list has about 25,000 names. The national party label could help Galbraith raise money, perhaps as much as the $327,514 needed to qualify for the match that the state gives gubernatorial candidates who limit their spending to $1,965,082. Galbraith and Lyons rejected the limit and the subsidy yesterday, but they can change their minds until Aug. 20, and Galbraith said, "There is some discussion about what would happen if we reached the point where we would qualify" for public funds.
Longmire has said Galbraith should it if he can get it. Galbraith said ne would address By AL CROSS C-J Political Writer FRANKFORT, Ky. Saying he offers voters "a real option" in the 2 election, hemp and medicinal-marijuana advocate Gatewood Galbraith filed for governor yesterday as the nominee of the Reform Party. "There are hundreds of thousands of people out there who want a change, want an alternative to the one-party system in Kentucky," the Lexington lawyer said as he and his running mate for lieutenant governor, Kathy Lyons of Murray, filed their papers. Galbraith, 52, and Lyons, 45, offered few specifics on issues but said they favor a limited government and embrace the principles of the Reform Party, founded by two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot.
Galbraith has run for governor twice, in the 1991 and 1995 Democratic primaries, getting 5.2 and 8.5 percent of the vote, respectively. He got 11.5 percent when he ran for agriculture commissioner in 1983 on a pro-marijuana platform. Galbraith said he still favors development of non-drug products from the hemp plant and also supports "medicinal marijuana" but no longer engages in or advocates the recrea-tionaluse of marijuana. Galbraith said he has a prescription from a Berkeley, doctor to use marijuana to control his asthma, a condition that caused his discharge from the Marine Corps. The Reform Party has no platform plank on marijuana, but its state chairman, John Longmire, said, "We don't find a problem with anything that is going to be used to alleviate someone's pain or whatever." He added, "The main thing that we looked at with Gatewood was that basically he agreed with us on the very passionate issues that we have regarding trade and government reform and getting rid of corruption and to get the money out of politics." Galbraith said he embraces the Reform platform.
The party says its mission, is to reform the political system and "re-establish trust in our government by electing officials dedicated to fiscal responsibility and political accountability." The party's future had been in question because of Perot's relatively poor showing in the 1996 election and the end of the federal budget deficit, the issue that drove his independent campaign in 1992. The first statewide Reform nominee in Kentucky, Charles Arbegust, ran a limited campaign and got 1.1 percent of the vote for U.S. Senate last fall. But at the same time, former pro BY PAT McDONOGH. THE COURIER-JOURNAL Gubernatorial candidate Gatewood Galbraith pondered a reporter's question.
Kathy Lyons, right, is running for lieutenant governor on his ticket. more issues later in the race. In response to questions, he said Jie opposes casino gambling and video lottery terminals, or electronic slot machines, and also opposes increases in the state gasoline tax. Casinos and a gas-tax increase have been suggested by Democratic Gov. Paul Patton, who is heavily favored to win re-election over Galbraith and Republican nominee Peppy Martin.
Galbraith said Patton and the 1998 General Assembly should have rebated a budget surplus to taxpayers instead of spending it on construction projects. He said he would cut the number of political appointees and subsidies to companies that compete with family farms. Galbraith and Lyons had been circulating petitions to get on the ballot as independent candidates. They displayed the petitions and said they had more than the 5,000 names required, but they did not file them because the Reform Party has qualified to nominate candidates on its own. Galbraith and Lyons were nominated by the party's five-member state executive committee on June 26, Longmire said.
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