Springer - NO! Clooney - YES!
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 7:49 am
Now here's a celeb with local ties I would vote for! I can't though, I'm a resident of Ohio. Darn. Nick Clooney (George's father) is a very decent human being. Sure hope if he runs, he wins!
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Monday, November 24, 2003
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/1 ... c1aky.html
Lucas won't run; Clooney will
By Patrick Crowley
The Cincinnati Enquirer
FORT MITCHELL - Kentucky U.S. Rep. Ken Lucas, a Boone County Democrat, will announce today that he will retire from Congress and not seek a fourth term next year, sources close to Lucas said Sunday.
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Nick Clooney, a television personality, newspaper columnist, Democrat from Augusta and the father of actor George Clooney, will announce plans to run for Lucas' Fourth Congressional District in the 2004 election, the sources said.
Clooney did not return phone calls made to his home Sunday. It is not clear if he will continue to write a column for the Cincinnati Post once he begins raising money and campaigning for the race. Post editor Mike Philipps declined to comment Sunday night.
Lucas is out of town on a family vacation. He will release a written statement early today announcing and explaining his decision, sources said.
In the face of huge gains by Kentucky Republicans, including a landslide 10-point win by Ernie Fletcher in the Nov. 4 gubernatorial race, Lucas is one of the few Democrats still holding a major office in the state.
He is the only Democrat in Kentucky's eight-member Washington delegation. His decision is motivated by his unwillingness to break a pledge to serve just three terms, the sources said.
"He was bothered by breaking his word," a source said.
Lucas, a corporate financial planner and former Boone County official, spurned offers from the White House earlier this year to switch parties. Though he is a Democrat, Lucas has voted often with the Republicans.
Clooney has never run for or held office but has published columns and made statements that Republicans would label as liberal.
His name recognition and star power will give him instant credibility, a political asset exploited by Arnold Schwarzenegger in his recent election as governor of California.
Two Republicans are running for the party's nomination in the Fourth District: Geoff Davis, a Boone County business consultant Lucas barely beat last year, and Kevin Murphy, an Erlanger lawyer.
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Use the link I provided, look at Nick's wife Nina. That's who I named my daughter Nina after. Seriously! Both Nick and Nina were patients in a doctor's office I worked at years ago. They were two of the nicest people we ever had as patients. Even though they were in the entertainment industry, they never acted like celebs can and often do. Nick would talk with all of us with such sincere interest. I never forgot that. Can see where George gets his good looks from and most importantly, his personality.
Mary
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Monday, November 24, 2003
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/1 ... c1aky.html
Lucas won't run; Clooney will
By Patrick Crowley
The Cincinnati Enquirer
FORT MITCHELL - Kentucky U.S. Rep. Ken Lucas, a Boone County Democrat, will announce today that he will retire from Congress and not seek a fourth term next year, sources close to Lucas said Sunday.
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Nick Clooney, a television personality, newspaper columnist, Democrat from Augusta and the father of actor George Clooney, will announce plans to run for Lucas' Fourth Congressional District in the 2004 election, the sources said.
Clooney did not return phone calls made to his home Sunday. It is not clear if he will continue to write a column for the Cincinnati Post once he begins raising money and campaigning for the race. Post editor Mike Philipps declined to comment Sunday night.
Lucas is out of town on a family vacation. He will release a written statement early today announcing and explaining his decision, sources said.
In the face of huge gains by Kentucky Republicans, including a landslide 10-point win by Ernie Fletcher in the Nov. 4 gubernatorial race, Lucas is one of the few Democrats still holding a major office in the state.
He is the only Democrat in Kentucky's eight-member Washington delegation. His decision is motivated by his unwillingness to break a pledge to serve just three terms, the sources said.
"He was bothered by breaking his word," a source said.
Lucas, a corporate financial planner and former Boone County official, spurned offers from the White House earlier this year to switch parties. Though he is a Democrat, Lucas has voted often with the Republicans.
Clooney has never run for or held office but has published columns and made statements that Republicans would label as liberal.
His name recognition and star power will give him instant credibility, a political asset exploited by Arnold Schwarzenegger in his recent election as governor of California.
Two Republicans are running for the party's nomination in the Fourth District: Geoff Davis, a Boone County business consultant Lucas barely beat last year, and Kevin Murphy, an Erlanger lawyer.
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Use the link I provided, look at Nick's wife Nina. That's who I named my daughter Nina after. Seriously! Both Nick and Nina were patients in a doctor's office I worked at years ago. They were two of the nicest people we ever had as patients. Even though they were in the entertainment industry, they never acted like celebs can and often do. Nick would talk with all of us with such sincere interest. I never forgot that. Can see where George gets his good looks from and most importantly, his personality.
Mary
Nick was always my favorite news anchorman on the then Eyewitness News WKRC-TV12 (ABC) network...he and Meteorologist Ira Joe Fisher (they worked together)
