My first reaction when this story broke last week was: He's lying - no way David Williams' father-in-law has $1.3 million to waste on a losing campaign, even to make his daughter happy.
But then I learned that the man has actually thrown more than two million bucks down the Williams shitter.
So I revised my reaction to: How pathetic is your campaign if the vast majority of your donations come from your Daddy?
Now it's Just how stupid do you think Kentuckians are to expect us to believe you're not consulting with your biggest donor who also happens to be your father-in-law?
From the Courier:
The Kentucky Democratic Party has filed a complaint with the state Registry of Election Finance alleging that Republican David Williams' campaign, his father-in-law and the group Restoring America are involved in an illegal coordinated effort to elect Williams.
Williams’ father-in-law, Russell Springs businessman Terry Stephens, has given more than $2 million to Restoring America, which has run ads criticizing Gov. Steve Beshear and supporting Williams for the past month.
In the complaint, Democrats offered no proof of collusion, instead producing only circumstantial evidence.
The latest move comes a week after the two sides ended a battle in Franklin Circuit Court that resulted in Restoring America filing a report with the registry naming Stephens as the sole contributor to the organization, which is based in Ohio.
The group and another organization funded by Stephens through the Republican Governors Association have spent about twice as much money helping Williams as he has raised and spent himself.
In a press release announcing Democratic Party Chairman Daniel Logsdon’s latest salvo, the party said Stephens was Williams’ “sugar daddy.”
Williams is 28 points down to Beshear in the latest poll. Meanwhile, Democratic voters all over the state are being intimidated away from the polls - Democratic voters, that is, who are not so discouraged and disgusted by the moribund state of the Kentucky Democratic Party that they're not planning to go to the polls at all.
Yes, of course Williams is engaging in election fraud - he's a repug running for office, so that's a given. But with Democratic voters and county parties starving for support all over the state, this is what the KDP thinks is a good investment of time and money?
Well, thanks to the SCOTUS and "Citizens United," and the Super PAC rules, anyone's Sugar Daddy can put as much money as they want into a campaign, as long as it goes through some money-laundering group first.
ReplyDelete"Junior, what do you want for Christmas?"
'I wanna Senate seat! I wanna Senate seat!! I WANNA SENATE SEAT!!!'
"OK, Daddy'll do do his best. Just shup up, already."
The system's so gamed, it's coming to the point where they don't even have to really try anymore to make this look like a democratic republic. It's like a game show where they know the answers - "The Price is Right" meets "Wheel of Fortune" - and the only "Jeopardy" is for the rest of us in this country.