EDITOR'S NOTE: The Kentucky State AFL-CIO also endorsed Hicks. Click here to see a list of all of our endorsed candidates.
It would be hard to find a race with a more stark comparison between candidates than Kentucky’s 6th District race for the U.S House of Representatives: The Republican incumbent, U.S. Rep. Garland Hale “Andy” Barr IV, grew up in a patrician Lexington family that belonged to the Idle Hour Country Club while Democratic challenger Josh Hicks worked his family’s tobacco patch on a Fleming County farm.
They are both lawyers, it’s true, but Barr has spent most of his career in politics, first at the state level, then in Congress, while Hicks worked construction, joined the Marines, became a police officer and then worked his way through law school.