Editor’s note: This story was originally published in Volume 100 Issue 1 of the College Heights Herald print newsmagazine on October 9.
Patti Minter accepts Governor Andy Beshear’s endorsement for mayor of Bowling Green before a campaign fundraiser on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. “Working with him during my tenure as State Representative to cap the cost of insulin and to obtain tornado relief and recovery funds for Bowling Green to serve my constituents was an honor,” Minter said. (Eli Randolph)Howard Bailey, former WKU dean of students, holds a campaign sign at fundraiser for the ‘Minter for Mayor’ campaign on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. Bailey has known Minter since she became a professor at WKU. (Eli Randolph)Dennis O’Keefe (left) speaks with Minter during a fundraising event on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. “Talking to the people you want to represent is the best way to understand what they need and want,” Minter said. She makes it a point to listen everyone’s opinion she can. (Eli Randolph)Nora McKinney, 6, shakes hands with Minter while she is out door knocking on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. Door knocking and engaging with the Bowling Green Community is very important to Minter.“I love visiting with the people in my community every single day,” Minter said. “Over the course of her campaigning Minter has knocked “over 13,000” doors. (Eli Randolph)“When people tell me that it’s time to fix what’s broken in our city and that their voices are not being heard, I wake up every day ready to lift up the voices of everyone in Bowling Green, not just the few. I’m ready to do this together,” Minter said. (Eli Randolph)“After years of studying law, human rights and public policy, it was powerful to put my training and experience into practice as Bowling Green’s state representative at the State Capitol,” Minter said. “I’m ready to put that experience to work for everyone at City Hall as Bowling Green’s next mayor.” (Eli Randolph)Minter is running with experience as “a mom, as an educator, an advocate, and two-term state representative.” (Eli Randolph)Minter has taught American legal history and human rights at WKU for 32 years and has “loved every second of it.” She hopes that if she is elected she can help make Bowling Green a more appealing place for college graduates to build their lives after college. (Eli Randolph)
