Mitch Whitaker is the chair of the Republican Party in Letcher County, Kentucky. He’s knocking on the door of a house that just so happens to sit across from the trailer that now contains Fleming-Neon’s city hall and police department. That’s because everything downtown was destroyed by flood waters.
“I’m with the Republican Party and [the homeowner] said we could put up a Rand Paul sign,” Whitaker says to a woman who answered the door. “Do you have any preference on where I put it?”
She walks him over to a spot in the yard and Whitaker gets to work. He said he’s been behind on getting signs up because, like everyone else, he’s had a more pressing problem: flood cleanup.
