A lawsuit filed this week seeks to remove incumbent Campbell County First District Commissioner Brian Painter as the Republican Party’s nominee in the November general election. Painter defeated challenger Dave Fischer by 106 votes in the GOP primary on May 17. Fischer filed suit alleging multiple violations. “As a result of the egregious, unlawful, corrupt […]
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Hehman to seek reelection as Ft. Mitchell mayor
Ft. Mitchell Mayor Jude Hehman announced Thursday that he will seek a third term leading the Kenton County city of 8,500. “Improvements to our business districts, infrastructure, police and fire services have been among my top priorities,” Hehman said in the announcement. “We are on the cusp of breaking ground for the major Drawbridge site […]
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The Kentucky Side: Analyzing the NKY primary; ‘Shift’ coming to local real estate market?
On this week’s edition of The Kentucky Side with Michael Monks: Three prominent Northern Kentucky Republican lawmakers and a county commissioner all lost to primary challengers on May 17. What led up to this historic defeat of powerful incumbents? LINK nky politics and government reporter Mark Payne and local attorney, author and commentator Rick Robinson […]
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What voters decided in Pendleton, Grant, Gallatin, Owen and Mason counties 2022 primary results
While much of Northern Kentucky was focused on key primary races in Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties, here are results in some of the more rural, southern areas in Pendleton, Grant, Gallatin, Owen and Mason counties. PENDLETON COUNTY Sheriff Winner: Jared Brewer (R) 1,007 votes, 61.48 percent Edwin Quinn (R) 631 votes, 38.52 percent District […]
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Boone clerk says office will ‘fine tune’ plan for November election
The Boone County Clerk’s Office faced challenges both in the field with voting machines and online when trying to publish election results in Tuesday night’s primary. Posts circulating on social media reported a malfunctioning voting machine at the Scheben Library voting location in Union, and one post said a polling location in Florence ran out […]
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Analysis: How voters in Boone County changed the makeup of the NKY legislative caucus
The scenes at PeeWee’s Place in Crescent Springs as results came in from Tuesday’s primary election were celebratory. Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, expecting a win in the GOP primary, announced that he would be holding his afterparty at the venue. As election night drew closer, other candidates of similar political leanings announced they would be […]
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Three NKY lawmakers fall to challenger in GOP primaries: Koenig, Santoro, Massey
Three Northern Kentucky Republican members of the state House of Representatives appear to have lost their seats in Tuesday night’s primary election, according to unofficial results. Reps. Adam Koenig, of Erlanger, Sal Santoro, of Union, and Ed Massey, of Hebron, all of whom serve as chairmen of different House committees, went down in defeat to […]
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Terri King Schoborg outpaces rivals in Kenton Family Court judge race
Terri King Schoborg advanced to the November election in the Kenton County family court judge race with more than double the votes of the next highest vote-getter, Carl. E. Knochelmann, Jr. King Schoborg won Tuesday night’s three-way primary with 10,391 votes and will face Knochelmann head-to-head in November. Knochelmann received 4,282 votes. Ben Dusing, who […]
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Campbell incumbents defeat challengers in GOP primary; Eight advance in Newport city race
Judge/Executive Steve Pendery cruised to victory in Tuesday night’s Republican primary, a rematch against his 2018 foe Anna Zinkhon whom he beat that year by about 500 votes. This year’s race was not as close as four years ago with Pendery claiming 5,206 votes to Zinkhon’s 3,463. Pendery faces no Democratic competition in the fall […]
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Kenton County incumbents easily fend off challengers in GOP primary
Incumbent Kenton County Republican office-holders successfully fended off primary challenges on Tuesday night. Kenton County Clerk Gabrielle Summe, whose office oversees elections in the county, easily won the Republican primary over challenger Danny Whitacre, who campaigned on a platform questioning the integrity of elections. Summe garnered 7,885 votes to Whitacre’s 2,928, according to unofficial results. […]