2026 Kentucky General Election

Randy Jackson Simpkins

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Meet Jackson

Jackson Simpkins has been a Navy Hospital Corpsman, an EMT, and is now an ER Physician Assistant who has been a proven leader in both the military and civilian worlds.

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Randy currently works as an emergency room physician assistant. He previously served as a Navy hospital corpsman and worked as an emergency medical technician.

As of August 12, 2026, Randy Jackson Simpkins’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Economy

Establish Crisis Response Teams: These teams with specialized training in social services and mental health can help diffuse and deescalate dangerous situations our first responders encounter. Not only valuable on the scene, these teams can continue to help with an appropriate plan of care for Kentuckians who would otherwise become stuck in a cycle of emergency rooms and jail.

Protect our most vulnerable online. Washington, DC is so full of tech billionaire money that they refuse to even consider our children’s safety online. We need to pass a bill to regulate AI so that online chatbots and billionaire tech companies have accountability and responsibility. If DC won’t step up then we will. We can help protect our kids from being endangered online. Our children’s safety is not for sale to tech billionaires.

Proposes crisis response teams trained in social services and mental health to de-escalate dangerous situations and provide continuing care.

Calls for legislation regulating artificial intelligence to hold online chatbots and technology companies accountable for children's online safety.

- Proposes crisis response teams trained in social services and mental health to de-escalate dangerous situations and provide continuing care.
- Calls for legislation regulating artificial intelligence to hold online chatbots and technology companies accountable for children's online safety.

Public Safety

1. Fix the Medicaid Reimbursement Gap: This will result in fewer people being dropped by their Primary Care Physicians and more physicians will be able to afford to see Medicaid patients.
 2. More Family First Training to Teach People How to Use Medicaid: Much like what we do for student loans, if we can teach people what type of medical events constitute an ER visit vs a Urgent Care or Primary Care visit, then not only can we provide better care overall, but provide less financial burden to the state.

1. Fix the Medicaid Reimbursement Gap: This will result in fewer people being dropped by their Primary Care Physicians and more physicians will be able to afford to see Medicaid patients.
 2. More Family First Training to Teach People How to Use Medicaid: Much like what we do for student loans, if we can teach people what type of medical events constitute an ER visit vs a Urgent Care or Primary Care visit, then not only can we provide better care overall, but provide less financial burden to the state.
 3. Increase Autonomy for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants: Kentucky lags behind every other state when it comes to the scope of what a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant is allowed to do.

3. Increase Autonomy for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants: Kentucky lags behind every other state when it comes to the scope of what a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant is allowed to do. We need to pass legislation that will empower them and give them more flexibility with patients. We also need to incentivize Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants to start small, localized family practices (especially in under-served communities) by providing specialty tax credits.

Proposes specialty tax credits for nurse practitioners and physician assistants to establish localized family practices in underserved communities.

Proposes closing the Medicaid reimbursement gap to help primary care physicians serve Medicaid patients.

Proposes training on how to use Medicaid to help people choose between emergency, urgent, and primary care.

Calls for legislation to expand nurse practitioners' and physician assistants' autonomy and flexibility in treating patients.

- Proposes closing the Medicaid reimbursement gap to help primary care physicians serve Medicaid patients.
- Proposes training on how to use Medicaid to help people choose between emergency, urgent, and primary care.
- Calls for legislation to expand nurse practitioners' and physician assistants' autonomy and flexibility in treating patients.

Healthcare

Fund our schools like we promised we would:  We haven’t lived up to the promise that we made to fund our public schools. When we devalue our schools, we devalue our students and Kentucky families deserve more than another empty promise about local education.

Calls for fulfilling Kentucky's commitment to fund public schools.

- Calls for fulfilling Kentucky's commitment to fund public schools.

Education

Energy & the Environment

Voting & Elections

Tony Hampton

- Your state representative represents the interests of your local district in the Kentucky State House of Representatives. The State House of Representatives, along with the State Senate, makes up your state lawmaking body: the Kentucky General Assembly.
- Your state representative can author, sponsor, and vote on bills that may become state laws. 
- There are 100 members of the Kentucky House of Representatives, each representing a single district. Representatives must be at least 24 years old and reside in the state for at least two years before their election. 
- State Representatives are elected to two-year terms. They only serve in the role part-time. 
- In addition to a $203 per day salary, state representatives also receive mileage reimbursements and a daily expense stipend of $182. 

Your representative and state lawmaker in the Kentucky House of Representatives