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Take Back Kentucky Chooses Senator Leeper as Legislator Of The Year

By Norm Davis

Take Back Kentucky has selected Kentucky Senator Robert J. Leeper to receive the “Legislator Of The Year 2002” award for his outstanding service and availability to his constituents.

Senator Leeper was chosen among 8 finalists with similar voting records. Senator Leeper was chosen above the others for his availability and his ability to not favor ‘paid lobbyists’ over the average citizen. He has an outstanding record for returning calls to his constituents.  

Unfortunately, many of our elected officials either neglect or refuse to return constituents’ calls. Senator Leeper is certainly not one of these legislators. A recent case in point being the present administration desiring to loan state monies by bonding to an out of state company that could have cost jobs to Kentuckians who are employed by Kentucky family owned businesses. Senator Leeper was contacted by his constituents, and the very next day he was himself in Frankfort.

His comments to his constituents was, “this is wrong, we need to take care of Kentuckians first!” When this matter came up before a committee he led the charge to stop this. The committee voted unanimously to oppose this funding of an out of state company with taxpayer dollars above Kentucky companies.

Senator Leeper was among only 11 who voted to protect Kentucky jobs by voting against H.B. 174. Senator Leeper has consistently voted to protect individual rights, rights of property owners, rights of gun owners and all other rights granted under the Bill of Rights by our Constitution of Kentucky regardless of which party or legislator introduces legislation that would infringe upon Kentucky citizens’ individual rights.

Senator Leeper also opposes funding Kentucky politicians running for office above funding our Kentucky schools, repairing our roads, or providing funding for our law enforcement officers. We applaud Senator Leeper for this.

Senator Leeper has proven himself to be a Senator “of the people” and for this we thank him and award him.

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