Nick Clooney (George's dad) to run for congress in Kentucky

[alwynsw]

It appears as though a blue dog is attempting to replace a blue dog.


Two Republicans are running for the seat -- Geoff Davis, a Boone County business consultant who lost to Lucas in 2002, and Kevin Murphy, an Erlanger attorney.

Lucas is honoring a term limit pledge by retiring. He recruited Clooney, a native of Maysville who now lives in Augusta and who bears one of the region's best-known names.

Actor George Clooney is his son. The late singer-actress Rosemary Clooney was his sister. Nick Clooney also is a former newspaper columnist and was host on the cable network American Movie Classics.

Clooney, so far the only Democrat in the race, is bracing for a tough fight in a district that traditionally has been a Republican stronghold.

Lucas was the first Democrat in three decades to represent the conservative district that snakes along the Ohio River from the West Virginia line nearly to Louisville and takes in much of the northern Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati.

Clooney calls himself a "common-sense Democrat" stressing health care, jobs, veterans issues and a proposed buyout of tobacco quotas.

http://www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/kentucky/6645199.htm
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[pezcore64]

1. ...

Sorry, old news ;)

it was posted ...well.... heck....
i think weeks ago ...

thanks for the reminder tho ;)

n dun worry, he'll win the seat. us northern kentuckians love the clooneys!

[alwynsw]

2. It's just getting to the western end of the state

Thanks for the info