Detroit Free Press, MI
March 23 2008

Kevorkian to launch his bid for seat in Congress

BY KATHLEEN GRAY – FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER – March 23, 2008

Jack Kevorkian, who spent eight years in prison for his role in an
assisted suicide, will take on another crusade Monday: a race for
Congress.

He has planned a 10 a.m. news conference in Southfield to discuss his
decision to run for Congress. He lives in the 9th Congressional
District, which is represented by U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg, a
Bloomfield Township Republican.

Knollenberg already has one announced challenger, former Lottery
Commissioner Gary Peters, a former state senator from Bloomfield
Hills. The race has been targeted by the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee as one of the most competitive in the nation.

Kevorkian, 79, is expected to run as an independent. He was convicted
in 1999 of second-degree murder in the Sept. 17, 1998, death of
Thomas Youk, 52, of Waterford. Youk had Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Kevorkian has said he participated in at least 130 assisted suicides
during the 1990s. He was released from prison in June.

He will have to get 3,000 petition signatures by July 17 to qualify
for the ballot.