WMBD-AM 1470 reports that U.S. Representative Lane Evans will not run for reelection due to his battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was diagnosed in 1995 and has been unable to work since February 14 of this year. He is 54.

He just won the nomination for another term in last Tuesday’s primary, so now the Democratic county chairmen in the 17th Congressional District will have to select a candidate to replace him on the November ballot. There’s no word on who that replacement will be, but whoever it is will be running against Republican Andrea Zinga, a former TV news anchor who ran for the same seat unsuccessfully in 2004, garnering 39% of the vote against the incumbent Evans.