Kentucky governor's family ties run deep in storm-hit area
DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. (AP) — In the desperate hours after the massive storm struck, Andy Beshear took time out from his duties as governor of the hardest-hit state early Saturday to do what a lot of his fellow Kentuckians were doing.
Again and again, he made calls to track down his cousin Jenny in Dawson Springs.
“There’s a good ending to the story," Beshear, the state's Democratic governor, said at a news conference Monday. “It took me eight hours to get in touch with her, just calling over and over."
But his extended family also was among the Kentuckians grieving the loss of life from the storms. The governor said he has an uncle by marriage who lost two cousins who died in Muhlenberg County.
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with a bright future in the Dem party.
RIP to those who tragically died or lost everything in this trauma. 
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