Maysville, Kentucky
for Maysville City Commissioner
For the People, For the Future of Maysville
Election Day — November 3, 2026
LaRon Washington — Maysville, KY
01 — About
LaRon Washington was born and raised in downtown Maysville. A 1994 graduate of Mason County High School, he moved to Lexington to build a career in construction — at one point running the largest swimming pool company in central Kentucky — before coming home to Maysville in 2012 to open a granite business on Market Street. Today he builds, remodels, and restores homes across town, including properties on the east side that he refurbishes and sells at a fair price so local families have somewhere better to live.
LaRon didn’t grow up with much. “We didn’t have much at all,” he says. As a kid, he knew what it felt like to go without the new backpack or new shoes on the first day of school — and to not have many people to look up to. That’s the reason he shows up for Maysville’s kids the way he does today.
An organization LaRon started in 2012 that provides local schoolchildren with backpacks and school supplies before the year begins, paired with a day of fun — bounce houses, food, and a fresh start — to take some of the strain off families heading back to school.
When the SNAP program was in danger, LaRon helped other community leaders gather food and feed hundreds and hundreds of families, providing Thanksgiving dinners when they needed them most.
“We just help quietly,” he says. “We don’t publicize everything we do. If we can help somebody, that’s between us — and that works for me.”
“It’s home. Maysville, we all take care of each other in times of need — we lift each other up.”
— LaRon Washington
02 — The Reason
For too long, Maysville has stood still. Over the past twenty years, our town hasn’t moved forward — and the same small group has run things for the last fifteen. I don’t have anything personal to gain from this. I don’t want to be a politician. But somebody has to step up, and I believe I’m one of the people who can.
If we don’t change direction, I believe Maysville becomes a ghost town. If we can’t create the jobs that keep our young people here, our kids will keep graduating and leaving for other cities — and a town without its youth is a town without a future. Our young people are the future of Maysville. I’m running to turn the arrow back around.
“I’m not a politician. I’m skeptical of politicians too. I’m literally one of you. I am you.”
— LaRon Washington
03 — The Platform
Four problems Maysville can’t keep ignoring — and a plainspoken plan for each one.
Maysville is roughly 400 homes short, and we’re tearing down more houses than we’re building. Every time a house comes down, we fall one further behind — and that shortage drives rents up, especially for the families downtown and on the east end who rent and can’t control their own housing costs. If you can’t afford your rent, you can’t feed your kids.
Be more business-minded about housing. Instead of automatically demolishing dilapidated and condemned properties, offer incentives to builders and contractors to buy, invest in, and refurbish them — putting homes back into use instead of erasing them. And take on the slumlords: either help them become better landlords, or get them out of business.
Families in parts of town are frustrated by frequent water main breaks that leave them without water for up to eight hours at a time — sometimes overnight. Breaks happen, but in certain areas it’s constant, and it’s become a real burden.
This is a money issue and a planning issue. The funding to begin this work is already set aside, with more expected — but the system is complex and needs an organized, prioritized plan of attack to get these lines replaced. Wherever we spend that money, let’s push the contractors to hire local workers, and give incentives to companies that hire locally, so the work we’re paying for also strengthens our own economy.
The east end has been neglected — it isn’t treated the same as other parts of town. LaRon owns and restores property there and sells it at a reasonable price to create better housing, but the neighborhood needs real investment.
Direct real dollars into the east end and restore things for kids to do — including the splash pads that were promised for our downtown areas. The money for those splash pads exists, but years later they still haven’t been built. Delivering on promises like that is exactly why I’m running.
Without jobs, our kids graduate and leave. Keep that up and Maysville’s average age climbs into its forties and fifties, with no young voices bringing new ideas to the city.
Bring business onto the industrial land we already have set aside for it, and use incentives — like tax breaks for companies that hire local workers — to attract employers. Protect and use what makes us special: we’re a river town, and we barely tap it. Fishing, kayaking, charters, riverfront tourism — Augusta does it beautifully, and we can too. Grow the economy while protecting the historic character of downtown, which is what keeps Maysville, Maysville.
04 — Qualifications
I’ve owned and run my own construction companies — managing the budgets, the schedules, and the crews it takes to get hard jobs done efficiently. Getting a group of people to work together toward one goal is my forte.
Where a lot of people panic, I look for the fix. Tough calls, creative calls, split-second calls — that’s what running a construction business teaches you, and that’s what this job takes.
I’m at the commission meetings — because you can’t fix what you don’t understand. I want to know what’s going on with the budget, the police department, the water company, all of it.
I’m a learner. I don’t believe I know everything. Bring me a better idea and I’ll give it a try. Respect is the foundation of everything for me — if we respect each other, we can work together on just about anything.
I’m not a politician — I’m skeptical of politicians too. I was born and raised in Maysville, I built my business here, and everything I care about is right here at home. When I say I’m one of you, I mean it literally. I am you.
“I’m not going to run on ‘next year everything’s going to be all right.’ That’s not realistic. But we can start the process, and we can get change moving in the right direction.”
— LaRon Washington
05 — The Long Game
I’ll be honest — real change takes more than two years. But in two years, my job is to change our direction. Right now we’re going backwards. I want to turn the arrow the other way and get us moving forward, with the city on stable financial footing so that whoever leads next — whether it’s me or someone else — can build on it.
The long game is simple: a Maysville where our kids don’t have to leave. A town with the jobs, the housing, and the future that lets the next generation grow up here, stay here, and lead here.
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08 — Make It Count
Election Day
Nov. 3
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
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Oct. 5
Monday, October 5, 2026, by 4:00 p.m.
Early Voting
Week of the Election
Early voting is available the week of the election — check with the Mason County Clerk for dates and locations.
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