A giant leap for Kentucky GOP candidate for governor

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — Will T. Scott has jumped out of an airplane to bring attention to his candidacy for governor of Kentucky.

The 67-year-old retired paratrooper made the leap at the Elizabethtown Airport from about 3,500 feet. He then walked over to a lectern and held a news conference for half an hour about his plan to help Kentucky veterans.

Scott is a former state Supreme Court justice from eastern Kentucky. But his message is getting lost in a crowded Republican primary field that includes a statewide elected official, a former councilman and mayoral candidate from the state’s largest city and a former candidate in one of the country’s most watched U.S. Senate races.

Scott, a Vietnam veteran with the 82nd Airborne Division, said if elected, he plans to help veterans find jobs.

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