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Ask The Mayor: Frankfort's Chris McBarnes

City of Frankfort

In a couple weeks, there’ll be a mayoral primary election in Frankfort. Since there are no Democrats running, whoever wins the Republican vote wins the race. If that’s incumbent mayor Chris McBarnes, it means he effectively gets six months where he’ll get to focus on governing, rather than running for re-election. We ask him what he might do with that time on this edition of Ask The Mayor.

The Frankfort mayor’s race is, inextricably, about age and experience. Mayor McBarnes says he respects the experience of his much older challenger, Thelma Dommestrup, but he’s the only one of the two who’s been mayor before. We ask him if he still faces challenges as “the young guy” in the race and what he might need to do differently in the next four years.