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C-J: Four candidates differ on many issues
May 16, 2008
The Courier-Journal
By R.G. Dunlop
The four Republican candidates in Kentucky’s 3rd Congressional District have many differing policy positions — including some that place them at odds with those of President Bush and Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Louisville developer Chris Thieneman and local GOP activist Corley Everett, for example, support withdrawing all or most of U.S. forces from Iraq within 18 to 24 months. Polls show that position is supported by a majority of Americans but is vigorously opposed by Bush, McCain and the other two 3rd District candidates.
One of the other two, UPS worker Bob DeVore, would take the opposite tack, sending in as many additional troops as military leaders say are needed to “finish the job.”
The fourth candidate, former U.S. Rep. Anne Northup, who held the 3rd District seat for a decade before losing to Democrat John Yarmuth in 2006, said she strongly opposes a timetable for troop withdrawal but also doesn’t support sending more troops.
“Things have improved” in Iraq, Northup said. “Loss of life is down, and there has been political progress, economic progress. … We should do all we can to see that through. … To pull out in the middle, when you’re accomplishing that, makes no sense at all.”
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