You read it right, kids.
Kentucky Democratic Party Chair Jennifer Moore filed a complaint with the do-nothing Louisville Metro Ethics Commission against Doug Hawkins (R-Sombrero Lover).
Hawkins, a current Metro Council member who is running for State Senate against Perry Clark, links to his senate campaign website on his metro council site, something the KDP alleges is a clear violation of the Louisville Metro Ethics Ordinance (it is).
From a KDP press release:
“This is a blatant abuse of power. Doug Hawkins is simply using his position as a Metro Council Member to support his State Senate campaign and that is in violation of the ethics code,” Moore said. “I am confident that, after reviewing our complaint, the Commission will agree.”
While we agree with Moore’s opinion, it’s a little silly to get so up in arms over Kentucky’s most well-known protector of our white women against Mexicans. The citizens of the 37th State Senate District already know Doug Hawkins is insane. Pointing it out to them is a waste of time.
Isn’t there a senate race to meddle in somewhere? Some money to raise? Votes to buy? Maybe some legitimate work to be done… like pointing out idiots like Frank Simon have seriously violated campaign finance law again and again? Never hear anything about the real wrongdoers. We want some real leadership. Not bickering over a website.
Jennifer, don’t you know? Doug will protect you!
2 responses so far ↓
1 Rose // Feb 21, 2008 at 7:18 pm
ahahahahahahaha. ahahahahhahaha. ahahahahaa.
Sorry…but I can’t manage anything else.
ahahahahahahaha.
2 Jeff Noble // Feb 22, 2008 at 7:49 am
Jacob –
We’ll disagree on your handling of this.
You ask the question “[i]sn’t there a Senate race to meddle in somewhere?” which I take as an appropriate allusion to the 30th, a race in which there was some over-meddling, but also one in which the nomination process was executed by-the-book. Well, there is – in the 37th – and the Chair is doing the right thing by pointing out this abuse, one which you’ve indicated you agree is an abuse. I would call this part of the legitimate work of the Party. Raising money is an other legitimate part of the work. And, I can only be hopeful that when other “real wrongdoers” do wrongful things to the Party, that the Chair will respond then as she has done now.
Unrelated, your mention of “wrongdoers” took me back to the “Morning Announcements” when I was a student at Durrett High School here in Louisville. Our Vice-Principal, a Mr. Paul Chitwood, who read those announcements, when calling the names of those who needed to report to the office for some misdeed, always began that with the words “Would the following Evildoers please see me in the office.”
JN
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