Nicholas McHargue

Nicholas McHargue is a Democratic candidate for District 64 of the Kentucky House of Representatives, which covers much of the central portions of the Northern Kentucky region (click here to see a map of the district).

William Whalen will serve as his primary opponent in May. Whoever wins the primary will face off against the winner of the Republican primary, either incumbent Kim Moser or Scott Berger, in November.

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McHargue is a member of the Kenton County Democrats Executive Committee and the vice chair of the Kenton County Young Democrats. He’s worked in retail management for much of his professional life, managing “large workforces of 100 to 250 people,” he said. At 28-years-old, McHargue said he ran to increase the amount of young voices in state politics.

“I feel like a lot of people that are in office, they’re older, they don’t really understand what it’s like to live in the modern day,” McHargue said. “They’ve been detached from a regular person’s life for too long, and it just feels like we’re just not getting the type of movement in the state that we should be getting when people are clamoring for change.”

Affordability, education and infrastructure were the top policy priorities he wanted to focus on.

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“Our education is being attacked by the state legislature constantly,” McHargue said. “They want our public schools to be weaker so they can defund them, and I’ve only lived in affordability crisis literally my whole life.”

He also pitched what he called the “community common core,” a community organization that pool income tax-levied dollars to support businesses and organizations based on community feedback.