Whether incumbent Garry Edmondson is breaking a campaign promise from nine years ago has become an issue in this year's Republican primary for Kenton County attorney.

        Challenger Eric Deters, 38, of Independence, has said that Mr. Edmondson, 55, of Fort Wright signed a pledge to only run for two terms and included it in his campaign material when he first ran for county attorney.

        Mr. Edmondson is now running for a third term.

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        “I didn't sign anything,” Mr. Edmondson said Tuesday.

        “I don't recall that I ever signed any pledge, in fact, I'm certain that I didn't,” he said.

        But on Wednesday, Mr. Edmondson said he did make that promise in campaign materials. Mr. Edmondson said he was thinking in terms of signing an organization's pledge and not of his campaign material, in which he promised to only run for only two terms, he said.

        “As part of my platform, I said I'd only run for two terms,” Mr. Edmondson said.

        “That is one point of 20 points I said I was going to do. I did specifically say, I don't deny or run from it, that I'd only run two terms.”

        He said there was an organization asking candidates to sign a pledge saying they would only run one or two terms at that time.

        “I didn't sign on some organization's pledge,” he said. “When it came known that Mr. Deters would run, scores and scores of people came to me and urged me to run,” he added.

        “I'm simply leaving it up to the voters.”

        Mr. Deters has included a facsimile of the promise with Mr. Edmondson's signature on it in his campaign literature.

        Mr. Edmondson said that Mr. Deters took the term-limit pledge line item and his signature and put them together as if that was the only thing he was promising.

        “He doctored it up,” Mr. Edmondson added.

        Kentuckians go to the polls to vote in local and statewide primaries on Tuesday.

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