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Born January 9, 1967, Matt Bevin was the second of six children born to Avery and Louise Bevin.<ref name=longshot>{{cite news |last=Gerth |first=Joseph |title=Senate longshot Matt Bevin touts self-reliance |newspaper=The Courier-Journal |date=May 2, 2014 |url=http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/kentucky/2014/05/02/senate-longshot-matt-bevin-touts-self-reliance/8605181/ |accessdate=November 9, 2015}}</ref> He was born in [[Colorado]], but grew up in the rural town of [[Shelburne, New Hampshire]], in a small farmhouse heated by wood-fired stoves.<ref name=etown>{{cite news |last=Finley |first=Marty |title=Bevin engages crowd in Elizabethtown |newspaper=The News-Enterprise |location=Ellizabethtown, Kentucky |date=September 4, 2013}}</ref><ref name=self-made>{{cite news
Born January 9, 1967, in [[Denver, Colorado]], Matt Bevin was the second of six children born to Avery and Louise Bevin.<ref name=longshot>{{cite news |last=Gerth |first=Joseph |title=Senate longshot Matt Bevin touts self-reliance |newspaper=The Courier-Journal |date=May 2, 2014 |url=http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/kentucky/2014/05/02/senate-longshot-matt-bevin-touts-self-reliance/8605181/ |accessdate=November 9, 2015}}</ref><ref name=ilprofile>{{cite web |last=Gregory |first=John |title=Profile: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Matt Bevin |publisher=Insider Louisville |date=October 30, 2015 |http://insiderlouisville.com/metro/profile-republican-gubernatorial-candidate-matt-bevin/ |accessdate=November 20, 2015}}</ref> He grew up in the rural town of [[Shelburne, New Hampshire]], in a small farmhouse heated by wood-fired stoves.<ref name=etown>{{cite news |last=Finley |first=Marty |title=Bevin engages crowd in Elizabethtown |newspaper=The News-Enterprise |location=Ellizabethtown, Kentucky |date=September 4, 2013}}</ref><ref name=self-made>{{cite news
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Matt Bevin
File:Businessman and political candidate Matt Bevin.jpg
Governor-Elect of Kentucky
Assuming office
December 8, 2015
LieutenantJenean Hampton (Elect)
SucceedingSteve Beshear
Personal details
Born
Matthew Griswold Bevin

(1967-01-09) January 9, 1967 (age 57)
Shelburne, New Hampshire,
U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpouseGlenna Bevin (m. 1996)
Children9
Residence(s)Louisville, KY (private)
Alma materWashington and Lee University
OccupationPolitician, Business Owner; Investment Manager
WebsiteGovernor-Elect's Website
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/serviceUnited States Army seal United States Army
Years of service1989–1993
Rank Captain
Unit 5th Mechanized Infantry Division Artillery

Matthew Griswold "Matt" Bevin (born January 9, 1967) is an American businessman and the Governor-Elect of Kentucky. He has served as the President of Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Company since 2011. On November 3, 2015, Bevin was elected Governor of Kentucky in the 2015 gubernatorial election, defeating Democratic candidate Jack Conway. Bevin was a Republican primary challenger to Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky's 2014 Senate election. Bevin will take the oath of office for Governor of Kentucky on December 8, 2015, at 12 noon.

Early life and education

Born January 9, 1967, in Denver, Colorado, Matt Bevin was the second of six children born to Avery and Louise Bevin.[1][2] He grew up in the rural town of Shelburne, New Hampshire, in a small farmhouse heated by wood-fired stoves.[3][4] His father worked at a wood mill, and his mother worked part-time in a hospital admissions department.[1] The family raised livestock and grew much of their own food.[5] At age 6, Bevin made money by packaging and selling seeds to his neighbors.[6] He credits his involvement in 4-H, where he served as president of the local and county chapters and as a member of the state teen council, with developing his public speaking and leadership skills.[4] He was also involved with the county's Dairy Club.[4]

Initially attending a small Christian school, in tenth grade Bevin enrolled as a day student at Gould Academy, a private high school across the state line in Bethel, Maine.[4] He paid for his tuition through a combination of financial aid and wages from an on-campus dishwashing job and various summer jobs.[1] After graduating high school, he attended Washington and Lee University on a partial ROTC scholarship.[1] During his matriculation, he studied abroad in Japan and became fluent in Japanese.[4] In 1989, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies.[1][7]

After taking eight weeks off to complete a 3,800-mile (6,100 km) bicycle ride from Oregon to Florida, Bevin enlisted in the United States Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.[4] As an artillery officer, he spent four years on active duty as the counterfire officer for the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division Artillery.[1][8] While stationed at Fort Polk in Louisiana, he went on a blind date with his future wife, Glenna.[4] The two married in 1996.[1] Bevin retired from active duty Army service in 1993 and left the Individual Ready Reserve in 2003 with the rank of Captain.[1]

Business career

Bevin worked as a financial consultant for SEI Investments Company in Pennsylvania and Boston, then served as a vice president with Putnam Investments. In 1999, Bevin moved to Kentucky to work with National Asset Management, being offered a stake in the firm to take the job.[7] After National Asset Management was sold in 2003, Bevin left the company and recruited a group of managers from National City Corp. to found Integrity Asset Management.[9] The company was handling more than $1 billion in investments before Bevin sold in 2011 to Munder Capital Management.[9][10]

In 2008, Bevin took over management of the struggling Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Company of East Hampton, Connecticut.[11] Founded in 1832 by Bevin's great-great-great grandfather and remaining in the family continuously since, the company is the last remaining American company that manufactures bells exclusively.[11] By 2011, the company owed $116,000 in delinquent taxes and was named the number one delinquent tax firm in East Hampton.[12] Collectively, the Bevins decided that Matt was the only family member with the business acumen and financial wherewithal to keep the company solvent.[11] In 2011, Bevin became the company's president.[13] Within a year, he paid the company's delinquent taxes; he subsequently made the company profitable and raised his employees' pay.[1][6]

A fire sparked by a lightning strike destroyed the factory on May 27, 2012.[6] Although he carried little more than liability insurance on the business and his losses were compounded by looters who broke through the fence and stole 4,500 bells in the fire's aftermath, Bevin vowed to rebuild, telling the Hartford Courant, "I'm a Bevin, and Bevins make bells."[6][14][15] In late June 2012, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy announced that Bevin Brothers would receive $100,000 in grants from the state's Small Business Express program to assist in the rebuilding effort.[16] Flanked by Senator Richard Blumenthal, Bevin announced in July 2012 that he would sell souvenirs including T-shirts, and bells and bricks salvaged from the gutted factory, to raise additional funds for rebuilding.[17] Working from a temporary location, the company resumed limited production in September 2012.[18]

Bevin is also a partner at Waycross Partners, an investment management firm in Louisville, Kentucky.[19]

Political career

Bevin has contributed money to Rand Paul, Mitt Romney, Republican House candidate Todd Lally, and the Republican Party of Kentucky.[20] He contributed $250 to the campaign of Democrat Wendy Caswell in her unsuccessful 2012 primary against incumbent State Representative Reginald Meeks.[21] Caswell is the founder of the Louisville Tea Party, and no Republican entered the race.[21] He also contributed $500 to the primary campaigns of Democrat Greg Fischer and Republican Hal Heiner in the 2012 Louisville mayoral race, saying he wanted the best qualified candidate in each party to reach the general election; after both men won their primaries, he contributed another $1,500 to Heiner's unsuccessful campaign.[21] In the 2004 presidential race, Bevin supported Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka.[22] He said he could not find a "good, viable alternative" to Barack Obama or John McCain in the 2008 presidential race, so he voted for McCain, but opined "We were going to get basically a socialist moderate-type person either way."[23]

In 2012, Bevin considered challenging incumbent Democrat John Yarmuth to represent Kentucky's 3rd congressional district, but ultimately decided not to join the race.[1]

2014 U.S. Senate campaign

See also: United States Senate election in Kentucky, 2014

On July 24, 2013, Bevin announced that he would challenge then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a five-term incumbent, in the Republican primary.[24] He said he was running because he did not believe that McConnell was conservative enough.[23][25] Although Bevin had aligned himself with the Tea Party movement, Kentucky's junior senator, Tea Party-backed Rand Paul, maintained his earlier endorsement of McConnell after Bevin's announcement.[24] Despite a Wenzel Strategies poll immediately following Bevin's announcement that showed him polling only 19.9% to McConnell's 58.9%, the National Journal listed McConnell number nine on its list of ten lawmakers who could lose a primary election in 2014.[26][27]

Mitch McConnell, Bevin's opponent in the 2014 Republican Senate primary

McConnell immediately launched an ad campaign accusing Bevin of taking taxpayer bailouts, citing his acceptance of state grants to rebuild his family business in Connecticut.[24] Bevin responded with ads accusing McConnell of voting for higher taxes, government bailouts, increases in the debt ceiling, and confirmation of liberal judicial nominees.[24] McConnell's second ad, entitled "Delinquent", featured a clip of Bevin telling an audience "I have no tax delinquency problem, nor have I ever," then claimed his businesses had failed to pay taxes eight times and Bevin was late on a tax payment on his $1.2 million vacation home in Greenwood, Maine, in 2007.[28] PolitiFact.com rated the ad "Mostly False", saying that the business, Bevin Brothers Manufacturing, incurred the delinquent taxes in 2008 and the second quarter of 2009, when the extent of Bevin's involvement with the company was "unclear".[28] Regarding the vacation home, PolitiFact noted that Bevin's escrow company changed in 2007, and the new company failed to pay the property taxes on the home from escrow on time.[28] Town records show that the taxes were paid by February 2009, and Bevin had paid them on-time every year before and after 2007.[28]

McConnell's third ad in as many weeks targeted Bevin for falsely claiming on his LinkedIn page that he attended a seminar affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[29] The three-year program entitled "Birthing of Giants/Entrepreneurial Master's Program at MIT Endicott House", which Bevin attended from 2006 to 2008, was actually sponsored by the MIT Enterprise Forum, which is technically unaffiliated with MIT.[29] The discrepancy was first reported by The Hill in March 2013, before Bevin declared his candidacy, and was clarified on his LinkedIn page at that time.[29]

Bevin criticized McConnell for the deal he helped negotiate to end the 16-day government shutdown in 2013, saying "When the stakes are highest Mitch McConnell can always be counted on to sell out conservatives."[30] In the aftermath of the deal, the Senate Conservatives Fund endorsed Bevin.[31] By mid-October 2013, McConnell's campaign indicated it would look beyond Bevin and focus its advertising against Allison Lundergan Grimes, the frontrunner in the race for the Democratic senatorial nomination, calling her "my real opponent".[32][33] Days later, however, the campaign launched another ad, based on a story published by BuzzFeed, claiming Bevin had failed to disclose a federal tax lien when applying for the state grant to rebuild his family business.[32] Lexington Herald-Leader columnist Sam Youngman speculated that McConnell's pivot back to Bevin was a proxy war against Tea Party fundraising groups, hoping that a decisive win over their chosen candidate in the primary would hamper the groups' fundraising in future elections.[34]

McConnell said Bevin's actions could be considered a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine, under Connecticut law.[35] Bevin told BuzzFeed that he had been paying the lien in $5,000 installments prior to the fire that destroyed the business, but after the fire, the Internal Revenue Service suspended the payments.[36] He further contended that the language of the grant application allowed for liens where payment arrangements had been made.[36] Bevin was never charged.

During the campaign, Bevin advocated congressional term limits, ending the allocation of federal earmarks, and reforming eligibility requirements for entitlement programs, including raising age requirements and imposing means tests.[3] He called for massive spending cuts in the federal bureaucracy, specifically the Department of Education and the Veterans Administration.[3] He opposed U.S. intervention in the Syrian Civil War and the disbursement of foreign aid to countries that deny basic freedoms to their citizens or are guilty of human rights violations.[3]

Bevin was endorsed by the conservative Madison Project, Gun Owners of America, and conservative talk radio hosts Mark Levin and Glenn Beck.[37][38][39][40] Bevin lost to McConnell in the primary, taking 35 percent of the vote to McConnell's 60 percent. McConnell later defeated Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes to win re-election.

2015 gubernatorial campaign

Main article: Kentucky gubernatorial election, 2015

Following his primary loss to McConnell, Bevin announced he would run for Governor of Kentucky in the upcoming 2015 election. Bevin won the Republican primary with 32.9% of the vote, defeating Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, former Louisville Metro Council Member Hal Heiner, and former Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Will T. Scott. On election night, the Associated Press referred to the race as a "virtual tie," with Bevin ahead of Comer by just 83 votes.[41] The AP did not call the race in favor of either Bevin or Comer, who asked for a recanvass.[41] After the completion of a recanvass, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes announced that Bevin remained 83 votes ahead of Comer.[42] After the recanvass, Comer announced he would not request a full recount, and conceded the nomination to Bevin.[25][43]

Bevin has said that he will repeal Kynect (the state's health insurance exchange) and Medicaid expansion, both products of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[25] Bevin opposes the Common Core State Standards Initiative, and supports tax cuts, school vouchers, and the introduction of a right-to-work law.[22]

Bevin and running mate Jenean Hampton, a 2014 state house candidate and Tea Party activist,[44] faced Democratic party nominee and Attorney General Jack Conway,[25] as well as Independent candidate and digital entrepreneur Drew Curtis, in the November 3 general election.[45]

Bevin won the election with 53% to Conway's 44%, becoming Kentucky's 62nd governor.[46]

Political positions

Healthcare

During his campaign for governor in 2015, Bevin pledged to dismantle Kynect (the state's health insurance exchange) and reverse the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act because the state "can't afford it",[47][48][49] then later claimed, "That's not what I said",[50] and posted the issue as a prominent point in his platform.[51] He has advocated laws that allow companies to sell health insurance across state lines, to allow individuals to purchase health insurance with pre-tax income, and to grant money from Medicare and Medicaid to states who want to create their own health insurance solutions.[1]

Bevin said during his campaign for governor that he would defund Planned Parenthood in Kentucky if elected.[52]

Right-to-work

See also: Right-to-work law

Bevin supports making Kentucky a right-to-work state.[53][54]

Same-sex marriage

Bevin has opposed same-sex marriage and has argued that freedom of religion should relieve county clerks such as Kim Davis from the duty of signing marriage licenses between same-sex couples.[55] On September 8, 2015, Bevin met with Davis, who was in the Carter County jail at the time.[56]

Personal life

Bevin and his wife had six biological children.[4] The oldest, daughter Brittiney, died at age 17 near the family's home in 2003 after a car accident.[4][53] In memory of their daughter, the Bevins created Brittiney's Wish, a non-profit organization that funds domestic and international mission trips for high school students, and started an endowment that allowed Louisville's Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to open its Bevin Center for Missions Mobilization in 2012.[1][57][58]

In 2011, Bevin took all of his children out of school for a year and took them on a 26,000-mile (42,000 km) tour of the United States, visiting sites of educational or historical interest, including the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and the Topeka, Kansas, schoolhouse at the center of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.[4][53] In June 2012, the Bevins adopted four children – between the ages of 2 and 10 – from Ethiopia.[59]

The Bevins attend Southeast Christian Church in Louisville.[4]

Criticism

Claims of impropriety

Bevin has been found to be inconsistent on several occasions, on subjects ranging from his taxes to his policy positions,[60][61] leading John David Dyche (Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell's biographer) to call Bevin a "pathological" liar, while comparing him to Donald Trump.[62] Bevin has been accused of blaming the media after he's been accused of lying.[60][62][63] Issues that Bevin has described inconsistently include:

  • Stating that he has always paid his taxes on time, then admitting he failed to pay his taxes on time more than 30 times.[60][64]
  • Stating that he would dismantle Kynect and reverse the Medicaid expansion,[47][48][49][50] and later claiming, "That isn't what I said."[60][65]
  • Attending a cockfighting rally,[62][66][67][68] and then saying he thought he was attending a "state's rights" rally.[69][70]
  • After being questioned why he hadn't supported Mitch McConnell, claiming he strongly supported McConnell,[71] and that his friend, Larry Cox, would attest to such support, which was denied by Cox.[61][63]
  • Claiming that spending money on early childhood education programs served no purpose because it was lost by 3rd grade,[72][73][74] and later claiming that comments portraying him as saying that are "baloney".[75]
Party political offices
Preceded by Republican nominee for Governor of Kentucky
2015 		Most recent
Political offices
Preceded by Governor of Kentucky
Taking office
December 8, 2015 		Incumbent

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