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A4 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2013 CITY | REGION LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER | KENTUCKY.COM
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LUALLEN
could make the greatest con-tribution,” she said.
Luallen said she was hav-ing “casual conversations” with consultants and a poll-ster. She noted that potential candidates are not allowed to contract for any services until they officially enter the race.
“I also have an enthusias-tic corps of supporters who are encouraging me to run and I get a lot of advice from them,” she said.
Luallen, 60, has been in public service since 1974, starting with her work in Gov. Wendell Ford’s campaign for U.S. Senate. She has worked in a variety of state govern-ment roles, including cabinet secretary for Gov. Paul Pat-ton. She was elected state au-ditor in 2003 and 2007, and garnered headlines for her watchdog efforts involving the Kentucky League of Cit-ies, Kentucky Association of Counties and many others.
In the 13 months since leav-ing state office, Luallen has made nearly 50 public speech-es and appearances across the state, supported the campaigns of several Democratic candi-dates and joined the boards of five organizations: Centre Col-lege in Danville, Community Trust Bank in Pikeville, the Kentucky Cancer Foundation, the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky, and the Kentucky Historical Society Foundation.
She also is helping coordi-nate the March 6 fundraising reception and dinner with former President Bill Clinton for the Wendell H. Ford Gov-ernment Education Center in Owensboro.
Luallen said she primarily was weighing three questions in deciding whether to run for governor: ■ Is it the right decision
for her and her family?■ Can she wage a success-
ful campaign?■ As governor, can she
implement a vision for the state with specific goals be-yond just addressing the cri-sis of the moment?
Luallen said she has an-swered the campaign ques-tion with a “strong yes.”
“I don’t want to be gov-ernor just for the title,” she
said. “I think I still have a lot to offer in terms of public service, but I don’t want to be governor unless I think I could really make a difference and convince enough strong people to join me in this ef-fort to have a successful, ag-gressive agenda.”
Other Democrats being mentioned as potential candi-dates for governor include Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson, former Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo, former U.S. Rep. Ben Chan-dler, Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, House Speaker Greg Stumbo and state Auditor Adam Edelen.
Possible Republican candi-dates include U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie, state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, Tea Party activist Phil Mof-fett, Louisville businesswom-an Cathy Bailer and Stanford banker Jess Correll.
Former state auditor Crit Luallen said Monday that she was
eyeing a run for governor in 2015, not the U.S. Senate in 2014.
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in Joyce Crider’s disappear-ance.
Joyce Crider was last seen Oct. 27, 2002, when she told a friend she was going to see Bill Crider at the Holiday Inn on Athens-Boonesboro Road, where he was staying.
The couple had been mar-ried less than three years and were divorcing. Joyce Crider’s brother, Mike Gaines, has said she had been scheduled to give a deposition in the di-vorce case two days after her disappearance. Sworn police statements said she intended to implicate Bill Crider in insurance fraud. Her car was found in a Lexington parking lot more than a month after she went missing.
Bill Crider had maintained his innocence, telling a re-porter in 2006 that he had proof that Joyce Crider was alive. The couple’s divorce was finalized in 2003, without Joyce Crider.
In Bill Crider’s recent fed-eral drug case, U.S. District Judge Karen K. Caldwell or-dered that letters from Joyce Crider’s mother and other family and friends be entered into the record. In one letter,
Joyce Crider’s mother, Joan E. Gaines, described the Criders’ relationship and events before her daughter’s disappearance.
“My daughter owned a house on Dayton Avenue be-fore she married Bill Crider,” Gaines wrote. “After they had been married a short time, the house burnt. …
“After her house burnt, she bought another house on Jason Court with her insur-ance money. They lived there for three months before sepa-rating. While separated, they went away for a weekend to see if they could work things out. After getting home, she went back to his hotel to tell him that she was ‘not’ going to resume the relationship with him. She was never seen again. The very next day, he was trying to take possession of all of her property. It has been 10 years as of October 27, 2012, when Joyce told her friend that she was on the way to Bill’s hotel.”
A letter from a woman who said she was a family friend also was entered into the court record.
“I am writing to beg that when you review the records on Mr. Crider, you keep in mind that what he is being charged with is only a frac-tion of the many crimes that
he has committed,” said a let-ter signed by Debra Carroll Eddy.
“Please keep in mind that this small victory may be the only one that this family gets in the 10-year battle to get some justice for Joyce,” Ed-dy’s letter said.
On Monday, Lexington po-lice again asked for new tips in the open case.
“We want to redirect the focus onto the missing per-son,” Sgt. Pete Ford said at a news conference. “We want people, if they have any in-formation in regards to her whereabouts, to give us a call and let us know.
“If they have a lead, if there’s something they’ve heard, something they think they may know — anything that could help that family and help us in locating Joyce Crider, we greatly appreciate that.”
In an interview Monday, Gaines said she hoped some-one would come forward with more information about her daughter’s death, now that Crider is dead.
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CRIDER
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Lexington police on Mon-day arrested a man accused of gaining access to a private school during basketball prac-tice and stealing a player’s iPhone.
James Nelson Watts IV is charged with third-degree burglary, and police are inves-tigating whether he is behind at least three similar crimes in Lexington. Watts was ar-rested Monday afternoon and was questioned by police.
Watts allegedly gained ac-cess to Blue Grass Baptist School on Red River Drive by telling staffers he was autho-rized to fix faulty lighting in the boys’ locker room, Lex-ington police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts said.
One of the players discov-ered his phone was missing when he returned to the lock-er room after practice, she said. The theft was reported Jan. 28.
Blue Grass Baptist School is an accredited, Christian-based school for kindergar-ten through 12th grade. An administrative assistant said principal Kevin Davidson did not want to comment.
Roberts said police wanted to question Watts about three thefts at local restaurants. Police linked Watts to the school theft through tips from the public and from surveil-lance video at the school, she said, but evidence in the res-taurant thefts was not clear enough early Monday to place charges.
During the last week of
January, thefts were reported at Cheapside Bar and Grill, Atomic Café and Applebee’s on Beaumont Centre Park-way.
“In each case, the thief “falsely identified himself to obtain access to the prem-ises,” police said in a news release.
At each of the three res-taurants, the man said he was employed by Kentucky Eagle
beer. He asked about supply and distribution. He stole electronics from employees and customers while chatting with managers and poking around the bar.
The description of the res-taurant thief is similar to the description of Watts, and the thief stole mostly Apple prod-ucts, including iPhones and iPads, Roberts said.
“But just because the de-scription is similar and just because the method … is simi-lar is not enough at this point to obtain the warrant for the other cases,” she said. “We will continue to investigate to try to determine whether this individual is responsible.”
Roberts said police from “neighboring municipalities” were investigating similar cases.
PLAYER’S PHONE TAKEN FROM LOCKER ROOM
Josh Kegley: (859) 231-3197. Twitter: @HLpublicsafety.
Man arrested in school theft questioned in similar crimes
By Josh [email protected]
Can you help?Anyone with information about James Nelson Watts IV or thefts at three restaurants should call burglary investigators at (859) 258-3700 or Bluegrass Crime Stoppers at (859) 253-2020.
Watts
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