LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Cassie Blausey, a Democrat from Louisville, was elected Tuesday to represent District 29 in the Kentucky House, defeating Republican incumbent Chris Lewis and becoming the first Latina elected to the Kentucky General Assembly.
Blausey’s win was one of nine Kentucky General Assembly seats that flipped from Republican incumbents to Democratic candidates during Tuesday’s election.
Blausey said she ran because of her daughter and a desire to help create a better future.
“I just didn’t feel like our current leadership and the leadership that had been in place for so long was doing that and was leaving a better place,” Blausey said. “And so,I wanted to not look around and search for somebody who was going to answer.”
Blausey, who is preparing to take public office for the first time, said breaking that barrier was meaningful.
“There’s so many Latinas that I look up to that this just felt amazing to be in that pantheon of women who have done the next thing,” Blausey said.
Blausey was born in New Jersey. Her parents immigrated from Colombia and became citizens when she was a child.
She said her own life experience helped shape a grassroots campaign focused on issues she d...