*** Lt. Governor, Steve Pence, endorses Anne Northup for Governor. ***

Lt. Governor Steve Pence has, as EXPECTED, endorsed the campaign of Anne Northup/Jeff Hoover, over that of Gov. ERnie Fletcher/Robbie Rudolph. This is the MAJOR announcement that has been brewing for a week or so now. The Northup ticket is scheduled to make an announcement at the Bowling Green Airport later this afternoon. It is expected to be the same announcement, so there will be NO updates unless a different announcement is made there. Both sides are likely going to play the announcement to their advantage (the Northup camp making it to be the neck breaker, while the Gov.'s camp will pretend it means nothing), but here is my take on it: The announcement means something and can be significant -- though it would have been much more significant had it been from someone who hadn't been so publicly anti-Fletcher -- like Sen. Mitch McConnell or any of the other Congressional delegates. But it is still a BIG announcement, in the sense that it is not often that one has one's Lt. Governor OPENLY endorsing, and campaigning for, the other guy (or in this case, gal) -- and maybe even appearing in the other guy's (or gal's) commercials, as I suppose Steve Pence will do. And certainly not one that will say the things that Steve Pence can say, and has apparently started to say!