KY-03

GOP Establishment Pick Trounced In KY-03 Primary

Rachel Slajda | May 18, 2010, 9:36PM

KY-03 GOP Congressional candidate Todd Lally

In the Republican primary in the KY-03 House race, the NRCC chose Jeff Reetz as their candidate --- but it looks like they chose the wrong tea partier.

Reetz, a Pizza Hut franchise owner, lost the primary, badly, to UPS pilot Todd Lally. Lally won 52% of the vote to Reetz's 17%, with 94% of precincts reporting. Reetz didn't even come in second: Another Republican, Larry Hausman, garnered 25% of the vote.

All the candidates had courted the tea party vote, and Lally and Reetz had both appeared at tea party events and had spoken out against "ObamaCare." But the NRCC chose Reetz for their "Young Guns" program, naming him a third-tier "on the radar" candidate in April.

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