Checking Kentucky's Vital Signs

Michael Kelley attended grade school at St Francis in Goshen and high school at Kentucky Country Day School, earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University (graduating cum laude in 1989,) and attended Medical School at the University of Louisville (graduating in 1993.) Kelley's residency was in Greenville, North Carolina, and in 1997 he graduated from East Carolina University's combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics program and moved back to Kentucky where he joined a private practice in Crestwood. Since then, he and his wife Gretchen have had three daughters and a son, all of whom attend school in the Oldham County public school system. In between caring for his patients, Michael Kelley can be found coaching one of his children's soccer teams, or tending the gardens and feeding the chickens at his home in the country in Oldham County.

As a voter and taxpayer, Michael Kelley is opposed to the continuing Republican efforts to pour more American blood and treasure into the desert sands of the Middle East. Our military has performed incredibly well in extremely challenging circumstances, having been thrust into war without adequate equipment or justification. But unless the Shiite and Sunni factions are willing to put aside hundreds of years of division and bloodshed, our troops will continue to be caught in the middle. It is time to stop forcing American troops into the quagmire in Iraq. It is time to compel the Iraqis into political accommodation by bringing our troops home now.

As a country doctor, Doc Kelley is deeply concerned about our flawed healthcare system. His commonsense ideas for saving American taxpayers and consumers billions of dollars are a good start to fixing our broken system which currently leaves millions of Americans without hope.

Michael Kelley believes that politicians in D.C. will constantly be pressured to make unethical decisions under our current, morally bankrupt campaign finance system. His ideas for campaign finance reform would change our government fundamentally because our representatives would belong to the people - not to the special interests.