Several sources have confirmed to WHAS 11 News that Erwin Roberts is the former Fletcher administration official who will endorse Anne Northup at a 2 p.m. news conference in Frankfort.
Roberts is a former federal prosecutor who was originally hired to work in the governor's office. Fletcher moved him to the head of the Personnel Cabinet and named him chairman of a blue ribbon task force on the merit system after the jobs scandal erupted, crippling the Fletcher administration. Roberts defended the Fletcher administration's hiring practices and announced the task force's finding that there was no system to violate state merit laws. Roberts worked in the U.S. Attorneys Office in Louisville before moving to state government and is now with the Frost, Brown, Todd law firm. Roberts considered running for attorney general and is now reportedly weighing a race for the 3rd District congressional seat once held by Northup. Lt. Governor Steve Pence is the other prominent Fletcher administration official who is endorsing Northup's challenge to the sitting governor.

I'll have the story tonight at 6 on WHAS-TV.