Long-time Eastern Kentucky Democrat has announced she’s switching sides and joining the Republican Party. Sen. Robin Webb, a lawmaker from Carter County, has served the public in the state legislature since 1999. She was one of two Democrats left in the statehouse representing parts of Eastern Kentucky. In times past, that part of the state was a stronghold for Democrats. However, over the last several decades, it has flipped red.
Webb, along with other Republicans in the state, said that the area becoming largely Republican is a sign that the current Democratic Party isn’t what it used to be. Webb, in a press release put out by the Republican Party of Kentucky, stated that she doesn’t feel as though she is leaving the Democratic Party so much as it has left her.
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