State senator Joy Padgett to seek Congressional seat
The Associated Press is reporting that U.S. Representative Bob Ney, who has been under scrutiny over gifts he was alleged to have received from a lobbyist, has decided not to seek reelection this November, and has asked state Senator Joy Padgett to run in his place.
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[On] Monday, Ohio state Sen. Joy Padgett told The Associated Press that Ney called her Saturday and asked the fellow Republican to run in his place, saying defending himself has been a strain on his family.
"It's a very sad time," Padgett said of Ney's decision, first reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on its Web site.
Ney told her "just that there's only so much he can take. He said, 'I have to do this,'" Padgett said.
Padgett, from Coshocton, said she would run for Ney's seat in the 18th district, a conservative, 16-county region of farms, working and abandoned mines, Appalachian hills and Rust Belt cities.
Joy Padgett, a two-time Buckeye Firearms Association endorsee who ran for lieutenant governor this spring on a ticket with Attorney General Jim Petro, has been a strong friend to gun owners in the Ohio Senate. Although we are excited about the prospect of having another strong pro-gun legislator in Congress, should she win, the firearms movement in Ohio will miss the strong leadership Joy Padgett has exhibited in the Ohio Senate.
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