ANDREW MONARCH
For State House Representative
KY HD-58 (Shelby County)
I'm a 34-year-old working father and an eighth-generation Kentuckian running to make life more affordable, protect our public schools, and give working families a stronger voice in Frankfort.
I believe we can do better than politicians handing out tax breaks to data centers while our teachers are left buying their own classroom supplies.
So I'm here to put my head down and get to work at pulling Frankfort out of the pockets of corporate lobbyists and back to representing the people.
Shelby County deserves some down-to-earth representation.
Lower costs for Working Families
I'll budget for tax relief where it actually helps families. The flat rate income tax mostly benefits the ultra wealthy and shifts pressure to local property taxes to fund those cuts. I'll support efforts to limit large corporate ownership of single family homes, push for State grants to counties that choose to allow starter homes and accessory units and protect fixed income households from property-tax spikes as home values continue to spike.
Transparent Government
We will fight for real time lobbying disclosures, ROI reviews on incentive programs and reporting on our state appropriations ledger. We'll push for a searchable public database of political advertising expenditures, lobbying disclosures and push for the general public to receive equal time while addressing committees as lobbyists do. We'll fight for stronger controls on conflict of interest and I believe every voter should be able to easily follow the money in a matter of minutes, not days.
Keeping AI in check
Technology is moving faster than classrooms, regulators and policies can keep up. I'll fight to remove tax incentives on Data Centers that communities didn't ask for, restore environmental controls, and protect Kentuckians from rising utility costs. The harmful impact AI is having on children's development requires a modern overhaul of our curriculum and our workforce needs to be protected.
Accessible & Affordable Healthcare
I'll vote to protect Medicaid and eliminate administrative barriers to care & coverage. I'll push to modernize infrastructure, crack down on aggressive pricing strategies and frivolous claim denials while making sure families get the care they need without being buried in costs.
Strong Public Schools
I will always support the same public school system I trust with my own child and fight to make sure our teachers and students have the resources they need to be the best. I'll push for increasing pay for our teachers, restoring programs that helped our students who needed extra help and fully adjusting SEEK funding for inflation.
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The Actual Haps of Shelby County
Zoning & Planning
Shelby County is growing, but the legislators representing us keep making it harder to hold government accountable. It shouldn't take an expert to follow the money, track government decisions or have a say in how our community grows. Yet over the last six years, the supermajority in Frankfort has overridden the governor to pass HB 195 (2020), which loosened the requirement that county ordinances be published before they're enforced. It passed HB 312 (2021), which added new hurdles to open records requests and gave agencies more time to respond along with HB 520 (2025), which made it easier for agencies to withhold records outright. I'll fight to reverse that trend and put the public back in public business.
Healthcare
Our local hospital has been operating at a loss of $4 million a year since 2021.
From July to Nov. 2025, has lost more than $3 million - All while the average cost of health insurance sits around 15% of our median household income and rising. Access and affordability is trending in the wrong direction and we've yet to see the Medicare & Medicaid cuts going into effect in late 2026
Education
In the 2026 budget, the KY General Assembly asked our schools to do more with less and simply ignored inflation when it came to SEEK funding. Diesel costs alone have tripled and Shelby County schools are now receiving $2.6 million less. Our schools need to grow with our community and they need resources matching today's economy. Legislators need to stop looking for ways to get public money into private schools and focus on the issues matching today’s reality - not yesterday’s talking points.
Cost of Living
Since 2020, Federal Reserve Economic Data shows typical home prices in Shelby County have increased by more than 43% and the total cost of borrowing has almost tripled. Meanwhile Grocery prices have risen by roughly 28%, Health insurance costs are up to 15% of median household income (if you're healthy) and wages are largely flat at an increase of 1-2% . This isn't a path any working family can afford.
Agriculture
Kentucky agriculture works best when family farms can afford to stay in the family. But disastrous tariffs and Kentucky's state legislators are driving up input costs, erasing entire markets, and removing vital protections. SB 89 (2025) weakened state protections for groundwater and small waterways that we all rely on and rural families and farms depend on while SB 199 (2026) gave pesticide manufacturers a legal shield and made it harder to hold them accountable when their products cause harm. We can do more to stop the corporate takeover of our government and protecting the folks trying to feed us.