Louisville representative facing disqualification from reelection bid over paperwork | Politics [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A single signature threatens to disqualify a Louisville state representative from her bid for reelection in a race where she has no Republican opponent.

When immigration attorney Nima Kulkarni won office in 2018, she became the first Indian American ever elected to Kentucky’s House of Representatives.

Kulkarni beat a 20-year incumbent in Dennis Horlander, who is also a Democrat, for the District 40 seat in Louisville. Now, six years later, Horlander may get a measure of payback.

Wednesday, Kulkarni sat in court as the defendant, not a lawyer, because Horlander filed a complaint challenging her paperwork to run for reelection.

“It’s real simple, get two signatures from members of the same party. She didn’t do this,” Horlander’s attorney Steve Megerle said in a Jefferson Circuit Courtroom.

Kulkarni is a Democrat, and one of the names on her candidates petition was not. At least on paper.

“She …