WFPL: Louisville Democrats Host FancyVaxx In Hopes Of Raising Vaccination Rate
EDITOR'S NOTE: Concerns over COVID 19 again led to the cancellation of most traditional pre-Fancy Farm Picnic festivities. Called off were the Friday noon Paducah Building Trades luncheon, the Friday night Marshall County Democratic Party's Bean Dinner and the Graves County Democrats' new "Music and Mimosas" brunch, which replaced the traditional party-sponsored breakfast on picnic Saturday. The McCracken County Democratic Party's Thursday night Alben Barkley Dinner went ahead with organizers promising that they had "worked diligently to provide a safe experience," which included masking, sanitizing and social distancing. Apparently, few, if any, people who attended Friday night's Marsall County GOP dinner wore masks. The Graves County Republican breakast Saturday morning drew about 300 people with "few if any" masked, according to a local media source. Kentucky State AFL-CIO President Bill Londrigan expressed the views of many trade unionists who planned to skip the picnic: With "COVID running wild, who wants to be next to a bunch of anti-vaccination Republicans anyway."
By BREYA JONES
The event was originally entitled Fancyville and was meant to be Louisville Democrats’ response to this year’s Fancy Farm political picnic. Organizers shifted the gathering’s focus, and its name, from politics to vaccinations in response to growing COVID-19 numbers.
“I wasn’t real thrilled about having counter-programing anyways,” U.S. Representative John Yarmuth said of the initial plans for a political event. “We’re not in an election year, so that would probably have been a waste of time.”