(Incumbant) Lucas won't run (for Congress in Ky) ; (Nick) Clooney will

[Norbert]

{i}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.

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.

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/11/24/loc_loc1aky.html

In addition Nick is the brother of singers Rosemary and Betty Clooney. He has worked on TV in the Cincinnati area for many years in Entertainment and news and more recently on Radio and has written articles for the Cincinnati Post newspaper. He did work in the LA area news also (in the mid-1980s I think).

If he runs he will most likely face Goeff Davis who is somewhat to the right of Jim Bunning politically, if that is possible.