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Kentucky Senate Candidate Bruce Lunsford Walks A Day in the Shoes of School Custodian Zina Stanley

As part of SEIU’s program to ensure that political candidates experience what life is like for working people, Kentucky Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford walked a day in the shoes of SEIU member and school custodian Zina Stanley in Louisville, KY.

Lunsford worked alongside Stanley on her shift at Butler Traditional High School, pausing to join the Stanley family for lunch before continuing work. Stanley and Lunsford cleaned and scrubbed floors and performed other tasks to get the school ready for the next academic year.
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Stanley, a single mother of three who works two jobs, has been a school custodian for nearly 19 years. Starting at an elementary school, she moved to Butler High School four years ago, and has become an important part of the school community.

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Zina Stanley: “Bruce got to experience the hard work we do everyday to keep our school running. Most people don’t realize that during the summer we’re busy cleaning the school from top to bottom and fixing all the maintenance problems we can’t get to during the school year.

“My daughter attends school here now and my son just graduated so this is more than a job to me — I treat Butler as if it were my own home. Some of the kids here even call me mom.”

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