Bunch Selected Nominee To Replace Husband

• {Frankfort, Kentucky}...Regina Bunch, a special education teacher in the Whitley County school system, was selected Monday evening by GOP leaders from Laurel and Whitley counties to be the party nominee to replace her husband Representative Dewayne Bunch, who resigned his state House seat last month because of injuries he suffered while trying to break up a school fight at Whitley County High School on April 12, 2011. State Republican Party chairman Steve Robertson said Monday night that former Whitley County superintendent Lonnie Anderson had considered seeking the GOP nomination, but he sent a letter to party leaders in support of Regina Bunch. Whitley County Democratic Party chairman Donnie Witt said Democrats in the district have no plans to pick a Democratic nominee, because Regina Bunch, who would get the sympathy vote and vote from teachers and church people, would be hard to beat.