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Kline will challenge DeSpain for seat
By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer
A second Daviess Countian has entered the race for the 11th House District seat in the Kentucky General Assembly.
Tim Kline, a 34-year-old Owensboro resident who practices law in Henderson, announced Thursday that he is seeking the Republican nomination for the seat.
The General Assembly redrew legislative districts earlier this month and added six precincts in western Daviess County and Owensboro to the 11th District, which used to include only parts of Henderson County.
Jim Murphy, a 59-year-old Daviess Countian who works at Rio Tinto Alcan in Henderson County, filed last week for the Democratic nomination.
Rep. David Watkins of Henderson, the Democratic incumbent, has filed for re-election. And Paul DeSpain of Henderson has filed for the Republican nomination.
That sets up a primary race in both parties for the seat.
Kline is a graduate of Daviess County High School and the Air Force Academy.
He said he served as an intelligence officer in the Air Force, “providing comprehensive daily intelligence briefings to the commander of the Coalition Air Forces and his staff in Saudi Arabia at the Air Headquarters during the height of the war in Iraq.”
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After serving five years in the Air Force, Kline entered the University of Kentucky College of Law.
He graduated in 2007 and currently practices law in the Henderson office of Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC.
Kline said he will focus his campaign on “encouraging the growth of business and jobs in Kentucky.”
He said he supports an overhaul of the tax code, eliminating unnecessary regulations and a renewed emphasis on trade programs in high school “to make Kentucky more competitive with its neighbors.”
Kline said he is pro-life and will seek to streamline adoption and foster parenting regulations, “so that orphaned and neglected children can be placed in good homes more quickly and with less cost.”
He said he also wants to focus on state employee pensions, “which currently represent $30 billion in unfunded liabilities.”
Kline said promises have been made to existing employees, and they would have to be kept.
“But I would like to see us — the legislature too — go to a defined contribution system, something along the lines of a 401(k), that private companies use,” he said. “The state could pay into that. But we can’t put that $30 billion in unfunded liabilities on the backs of our kids.”
Kline said he has vowed “not to take a dime from the state pension program, if elected.”
He said the people of the district “should be represented in Frankfort by a conservative voice who shares their values.”
Kline serves on the board of directors of Care Net Pregnancy Center of Owensboro. He is also a member of the Owensboro Rotary Club and has served on committees at RiverPark Center.
He and his wife, the former Elizabeth Shell, have twin 3-year-old daughters.
They attend Heritage Baptist Church in Owensboro.
Keith Lawrence, 691-7301, klawrence@messenger-inquirer.com
Tim Kline, a 34-year-old Owensboro resident who practices law in Henderson, announced Thursday that he is seeking the Republican nomination for the seat.
The General Assembly redrew legislative districts earlier this month and added six precincts in western Daviess County and Owensboro to the 11th District, which used to include only parts of Henderson County.
Jim Murphy, a 59-year-old Daviess Countian who works at Rio Tinto Alcan in Henderson County, filed last week for the Democratic nomination.
That sets up a primary race in both parties for the seat.
Kline is a graduate of Daviess County High School and the Air Force Academy.
He said he served as an intelligence officer in the Air Force, “providing comprehensive daily intelligence briefings to the commander of the Coalition Air Forces and his staff in Saudi Arabia at the Air Headquarters during the height of the war in Iraq.”
see seat/page B4
After serving five years in the Air Force, Kline entered the University of Kentucky College of Law.
He graduated in 2007 and currently practices law in the Henderson office of Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC.
Kline said he will focus his campaign on “encouraging the growth of business and jobs in Kentucky.”
He said he supports an overhaul of the tax code, eliminating unnecessary regulations and a renewed emphasis on trade programs in high school “to make Kentucky more competitive with its neighbors.”
Kline said he is pro-life and will seek to streamline adoption and foster parenting regulations, “so that orphaned and neglected children can be placed in good homes more quickly and with less cost.”
He said he also wants to focus on state employee pensions, “which currently represent $30 billion in unfunded liabilities.”
Kline said promises have been made to existing employees, and they would have to be kept.
“But I would like to see us — the legislature too — go to a defined contribution system, something along the lines of a 401(k), that private companies use,” he said. “The state could pay into that. But we can’t put that $30 billion in unfunded liabilities on the backs of our kids.”
Kline said he has vowed “not to take a dime from the state pension program, if elected.”
He said the people of the district “should be represented in Frankfort by a conservative voice who shares their values.”
Kline serves on the board of directors of Care Net Pregnancy Center of Owensboro. He is also a member of the Owensboro Rotary Club and has served on committees at RiverPark Center.
He and his wife, the former Elizabeth Shell, have twin 3-year-old daughters.
They attend Heritage Baptist Church in Owensboro.
Keith Lawrence, 691-7301, klawrence@messenger-inquirer.com
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