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C-J: Northup win sets up Yarmuth rematch
May 21, 2008
The Courier-Journal
By Deborah Yetter and Michelle Day
Republican Anne Northup cruised to victory last night over two lesser known primary opponents in her bid to regain Louisville’s 3rd District congressional seat, which she held for 10 years.
Winning nearly 80 percent of the vote, Northup sets herself up for a rematch with U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, the Democrat who defeated her two years ago.
“Let’s do this again in November,” Northup said just after 7 p.m. at her campaign headquarters off Breckenridge Lane, where about 50 supporters gathered to celebrate.
Yarmuth said he’s not worried.
“I’m feeling very comfortable about the race this fall,” he said in a telephone interview from Washington, D.C. “I think I’ve been adopted very warmly by the citizens of the Third District.”
Developer Chris Thieneman, Northup’s closest primary challenger with about 21 percent of the vote, said he called Northup about 7 p.m. to congratulate her.
“I did the best that I could,” Thieneman said. “I was proud of how I ran.”
UPS worker Bob DeVore Jr. got about 2 percent of the vote. A fourth Republican candidate, Corley Everett, dropped out Sunday and threw his support to Thieneman.
Northup, 60, blamed her 2006 loss in part on Yarmuth’s efforts to tie her to President Bush’s policies, including the Iraq war.
But this time “that president’s name’s not on the ballot,” Northup said. And she said people are tired of issues such as rising gasoline prices that she said Democrats in Congress have failed to control.
“I can offer good, common-sense solutions for those problems,” she said.
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