Mike Weaver Wins Democratic Primary!

Mike Weaver

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Kentucky (KY-2)

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Veteran Weaver wins primary to face Lewis for Congress By BRUCE SCHREINER The Associated Press via the Kentucky Daily News Wednesday, May 17, 2006

LOUISVILLE - Kentucky Democrats touting their military pedigrees during a time of war went one-for-two in congressional primaries.

Mike Weaver, a retired Army colonel and Vietnam veteran, won his primary Tuesday in the 2nd District and will challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Ron Lewis in November. The district, home to the Fort Knox Army post, runs from Owensboro in the west to the Louisville suburbs and takes in much of southcentral Kentucky.

Weaver, a state representative from Radcliff, said he understands “the death and destruction of war” and critiqued President Bush's handling of the Iraq war.

The Democratic challenger said the Republican president needs to come up with a plan in which Iraqi soldiers shoulder the responsibility for the fighting. Weaver said any pullback of U.S. troops should be gradual.

"I think that us continuing to lose soldiers ... in fighting the war for the Iraqi soldiers is the wrong way to go,” Weaver said.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Weaver had 48,910, or 72 percent of the vote, to Rice's 18,793 votes, or 28 percent.