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Representative Nesler on Retiring, Frankfort, and Jackson Purchase Politics

Nesler with a slow-moving traffic triangle during a bill hearing in February.
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Nesler with a slow-moving traffic triangle during a bill hearing in February.

With Kentucky’s latest General Assembly session now in the record books, we’ve been speaking with some of the legislators who’ve decided to make it their last one.  

Among the four retiring western Kentucky lawmakers is 2nd District Representative Fred Nesler.  The Mayfield Democrat represents Graves County and part of McCracken, and Todd Hatton spoke with him about the political atmosphere in Frankfort, and how he hopes to stay involved in his region’s political life.

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
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