Expect more of these surprises in the weeks and months ahead:
In perhaps the biggest surprise of the day Republican U.S. Rep. Ron Lewis of Cecelia will not seek re-election, declining to run for another term in the 2nd district.
Daniel London, Lewis’s chief of staff, filed minutes before the filing deadline, with his wife dropping off the papers.
State Sen. Brett Guthrie of Bowling Green, having heard of the possibility of Lewis getting out, also filed for the Republican primary.
It all came down with just moments to spare before the 4 p.m. filing deadline. And it came on the heals of Democrat Reid Haire, the Daviess County judge executive, filing to give fellow Democrat David Boswell of Owensboro, a competitive primary on May 20.
Gonggg.
(H/T: S2G)
by waiting until the day of the filing deadline, I’m gonna be PISSED.
This is an extremely annoying practice. Rodney Alexander pulled it in LA last cycle.
I’d support a system where the filing deadline for incumbents was a week before the filing deadline for challengers, just to prevent this kind of crap.
Bush won 65-34 in 2004, but Lewis only won 55-45 in 2006, and there are 269,000 registered Democrats vs. 164,000 Republicans
for anticipating this type of thing:
http://swingstateproject.com/s…
though it doesn’t look like for a couple of weeks when PA and NM file.
NM holds no surprises as everyone’s running for the Senate there, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see some endangered PA Repubs. bail, maybe Gerlach or Murphy?
What’s the PVI of KY-02?