Representative Mike Cherry on planned retirement

WKMS | By Chad Lampe

Published May 25, 2012 at 12:36 PM CDT

Mike Cherry has served as a democrat in the state house representative for 14 years. He’s retiring as the chair of the House State Government Committee and, as a former navy captain, the highest ranking military member of the General Assembly. Cherry represents the fourth district which includes Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston and part of McCracken counties.

Cherry is one of four retiring west Kentucky lawmakers. On the house side all are in the majority party and in the Senate, lone retiree, Ken Winters is a republican and education committee chair.

In this interview hear reasons for Cherry's retirement which include stiff partisanship. Also, Cherry explains the massive issues facing the state retirement system, plus his reasoning for one of the nation's first pieces of legislation.

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Chad Lampe, a Poplar Bluff, Missouri native, was raised on radio. He credits his father, a broadcast engineer, for his technical knowledge, and his mother for the gift of gab. At ten years old he broke all bonds of the FCC and built his own one watt pirate radio station. His childhood afternoons were spent playing music and interviewing classmates for all his friends to hear. At fourteen he began working for the local radio stations, until he graduated high school. He earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology at Murray State, and a Masters Degree in Mass Communication. In November, 2011, Chad was named Station Manager in 2016.

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