About Rick

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A Proven Prosecutor. A Bold Reformer. A Lifelong Kentuckian.

Rick Hardin is a lifelong Kentuckian who grew up across Louisville and began working at 14, holding jobs in restaurants and small businesses while playing football and baseball at Waggener High School. After high school, he worked his way through college—attending Jefferson Community College and later the University of Kentucky, where he earned a degree in Political Science and Psychology while raising his first child.

Rick went on to attend Appalachian School of Law, passed the Kentucky Bar, and built a legal career serving communities across Brandenburg, Hardinsburg, and Leitchfield. In 2018, he was elected Commonwealth’s Attorney for the 46th Judicial Circuit (Meade, Breckinridge, and Grayson Counties) and was re-elected in 2024 without opposition.

A husband and father of four, Rick lives in rural Kentucky, where he built his family home by hand. His career in law, prosecution, and community leadership has shaped his belief in individual accountability, limited government, and structural reform. He is running for Governor to restore power to the people of Kentucky and build a government grounded in liberty, responsibility, and the rule of law.

Lifelong Kentuckian

Proven Public Servant

Educated & Experienced

Husband, Father, and Reformer

// PRIORITIES

our PRIORITIES

Separation of corporation and state

Corporate influence has dominated Kentucky’s representative governments since our inception. If you believe that fundamental rights are endowed by our Creator, then only an individual may possess them. 

Revenue

The current structure of taxation and debt is reducing an individual’s spending power, increasing the governments’ spending power, and redistributing the individual’s profit to government corporations and private corporations which incessantly lobby for an increase in expenditures.

Administration of the governor’s office

A society that cannot enforce its law, is a society in decay. As the General Government Cabinet consists of multiple Constitutional offices, I will work with these officials to coordinate information, reduce waste, and assist in any capacity they needto perform their Constitutional duties. 

Education

As mentioned earlier, the counties are responsible for education administration. We must eliminate the distance between a teacher and a state dollar. The Kentucky Department of Education will only administer federal funds and evaluate student assessments.

Healthcare

There are no feasible solutions to healthcare when the federal government pours 20 billion dollars into Kentucky’s healthcare system. Certainly, I believe healthcare is simply a supply and demand calculation.

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