The Mongiardo Senate campaign says it will decide in the next few days "whether to file a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission and call for a thorough investigation into possible illegal conduct by Attorney General Jack Conway's campaign."

That's after the Conway campaign did not deny that it was involved in the creation or content of a YouTube video that criticized Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo.

To be clear, the Mongiardo campaign's complaint is NOT in reference to surreptitiously recorded conversations, portions of which have been posted on two YouTube videos, in which a voice believed to be Mongiardo bashes Gov. Steve Beshear and warns of a coming "blow up" in the administration.

Instead, the Mongiardo complaint references a different YouTube video, that criticizes Mongiardo's explanation for not attending an event, as scheduled, with Gov. Beshear. The event happened in the wake of the first release of audio recordings on YouTube.

Here is the Mongiardo campaign's news release Tuesday:

FRANKFORT---In stories appearing in this morning's Louisville Courier-Journal, Lexington Herald-Leader, and WHAS-11 TV, Attorney General Jack Conway's Senate campaign does not deny being involved in producing and placing an anonymous video ad on the Internet attacking Lt. Governor and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Daniel Mongiardo.
On Monday, the Mongiardo campaign produced specific and detailed evidence that showed video taken of Mongiardo by the Conway campaign ended up in an anonymous Internet video ad attacking Mongiardo.
When confronted by this evidence and questioned by reporters whether the Conway campaign produced the video or was directly or indirectly involved in its production, the Conway campaign issued a formal statement that "didn't" deny a role in producing the video, instead calling the matter "a bunch of silliness."
Today, Mongiardo campaign spokesperson Kim Geveden said, "Attorney General Conway may call it silliness but most Kentuckians call producing anonymous attack videos on the Internet political dirty tricks. The fact it was done anonymously by apparently the Conway campaign to avoid accountability raises serious questions of federal campaign election law violations. We are going to make a decision in the next several days whether to file a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission and call for a thorough investigation into possible illegal conduct by Attorney General Jack Conway's campaign."

1 Comments

Karl Marx said:

You would Geveden is smart enough to move on. He has been the one responsible for leaks as well as holding this in the news cycle. I am starting to think he actually wants Mongiardo to loose. Perhaps because he had to sue Mongiardo to get money that was owed him from the last campaign. These are a bunch of inbred clowns that have no business in leadership. Daniel doesn't pay his bills yet he is a millionaire, and Geveden can't run a campaign to save his life.

October 27, 2009 11:40 AM

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