About Wilanne

Education is fundamental to the idea of America and to fulfilling Kentucky's promise to our people. Every child, in every county, deserves to receive the best education we can provide. That means making sure our public dollars are spent fully funding our public schools and investing directly in the classrooms, teachers, and staff who make learning possible. Wilanne believes we can and must do better for our children, our educators, and our commonwealth by increasing pay for teachers and school employees, protecting hard‑earned benefits, and refusing to balance budgets on the backs of educators through higher insurance premiums. 

Wilanne will stand up to the Frankfort politicians who keep backing schemes that would slash Medicaid and put health care for more than 450,000 Kentuckians at risk, especially in rural communities and small towns. Medicaid is a lifeline for children, seniors, people with disabilities, and workers in low‑wage jobs. Gutting it would shut people out of cancer screenings, addiction treatment, and life‑saving medications, devastate rural hospitals that are already hanging by a thread, and force the closure of vital programs that serve both children and adults. When those services disappear, the burden falls on families, who are left scrambling to cover care, navigate complex medical needs, and take on even more physical, emotional, and financial responsibility for their loved ones. 

Wilanne opposes the extremists in Frankfort who have imposed a near‑total abortion ban with no real protections for survivors of rape or incest, who threaten doctors with felony charges for providing care, and who would rather let women suffer dangerous miscarriages than allow them and their physicians to make private medical decisions. She will fight for Kentuckians’ freedom to make their own choices about pregnancy, birth control, IVF, and reproductive care without politicians inserting themselves into the exam room. In a nutshell, people, not politicians need to make their healthcare decisions without government oversight! 

Wilanne will work for us, not for corporate lobbyists and political insiders who use their money and influence to rig the system against working Kentucky families. She will refuse to be controlled by special interests that profit from low wages, weakened public schools, and attacks on our healthcare. Instead, Wilanne will listen to the people in our communities – parents, teachers, nurses, small business owners, and retirees – and fight for policies that raise wages, protect benefits, fully fund public education, and expand access to affordable healthcare. When powerful lobbyists try to write the rules in back rooms, Wilanne will stand up, call it out, and side with the Kentuckians who cannot afford a paid lobbyist in Frankfort.