Long-time Kentucky Democrat switching parties
Dustin Massengill
Sat, May 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM UTC
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Long-time Kentucky Democrat switching parties
FRANKFORT, Ky. (FOX 56) — A long-time member of the Kentucky General Assembly said she’s switching political parties.
State Senator Robin Webb of Grayson in Carter County is now a registered Republican.
Webb has served in the legislature since 1999 and has been in the Senate since 2009 — all as a Democrat.
But she told FOX 56 News on Friday that she’s been considering changing parties for the last couple of years.
“I just want people to know where I stand. I know who I am — that’s not changing. I’m not changing my priorities. I’m not changing my advocacy positions. And my votes will remain the same on subject matter. I think everyone knows that,” Webb said.
“We’ve got to think of the people of Kentucky. Sometimes we get into this, you know, ‘I’m on this team’ or ‘that team,’ and I understand that — that’s our system, and I respect that. But at the end of the day, we’ve got to do what’s right,” state Sen. Gerald Neal, a Democrat, said.
This marks the largest-ever Republican supermajority in the Senate — 32 of the Senate’s 38 members are Republicans.
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