Dear Jennifer Moore:
I contacted you on July 28, 2008 and again on August 4, 2008. I still have not heard back from you. One can only assume that your lack of a response is a tacit approval of Thom Karmik’s public behavior of trashing me, Joe Sonka and U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford.
I could understand your reluctance to respond to me, mostly because you’ve made it clear you’re no fan by having my DNCC credentials revoked. And I could understand your lack of a desire to talk with me because I have been openly critical of your performance as Kentucky Democratic Party Chairwoman. But I cannot understand your refusal to discuss your involvement in the blackmail/threatening of Jeff Noble in an attempt to help your friend Kerry Morgan get a judicial appointment.
You pressured Jeff Noble to have me remove two stories from PageOneKentucky.com that were critical of Kerry Morgan and the State Central Executive Committee election process. This came shortly after you told me via telephone you were upset with the stories because Kerry was in line for an (judicial?) appointment from the governor and that you were unhappy that she was receiving negative press because she was volunteering her time.
Read the rest after the jump…
Those two stories are here:
Kentucky Democratic Party Convention Update
and
I have decided to make them public once again, as you can see.
You, Kerry, Benham Sims and others told Jeff that he would be sued for defamation of character if his comments weren’t scrubbed from the internet. If he was able to get me to remove those comments from my website– and if he removed the comments from his own– he was promised in no uncertain terms that he would get what he wants– i.e., a seat on the SCEC.
Note: Which, by the way, we hear will happen during the secret meeting of the SCEC on September 6 at Kenlake State Resort Park. We hear there’s a desire to amend the KDP bylaws to create two new seats on the State Central Executive Committee that the party chair gets to appoint. Jeff Noble should be one of those appointees.
I cooperated by temporarily removing content from my website because I truly admired you and I wanted to see my friend Jeff get what was rightfully his.
However, your repeated personal attacks via Thom Karmik and others reveal to me that it was in poor taste to ever be cooperative.
After your further pressuring of Jeff yesterday (after my teaser story went live), and now today– which Jeff admitted publicly, I now know it’s the right thing to do to go public.
I plan on being as open as possible about the entire ordeal. Just wanted to let you know that you had an opportunity to resolve the situation calmly and professionally. But from my vantage point, it appears that you have gone out of your way to play dirty politics and have attempted to damage people who disagree with you both personally and professionally. And you don’t want to resolve things.
I have never been so disappointed in the Democratic Party. It is tremendously disheartening to believe in someone so greatly and to work hard for them only to be let down every other breath.
You should resign your position immediately and save this state the embarrassment of going through some sort of investigation into your activity as chairwoman.
18 responses so far ↓
1 vernon // Aug 12, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Don’t let up on this group of inexperienced and sad leaders at the KDP. To have your credentials revoked to the national convention
is a sure sign of immaturity and a thin skin. Lets see how they handle these revelations that you have posted for all the SCEC members of the KDP to see. Perhaps now we will see who on the committee is going to step forward and demand change.
2 jake // Aug 12, 2008 at 12:09 pm
How will they handle it? With more threats, slander, libel and ridiculous behavior. They’ll treat this situation like it’s nothing and will stop at no costs to continue this trainwreck of tripe.
But it doesn’t matter. Their days at the KDP are numbered and they know it.
Meanwhile, the KDP couldn’t afford payroll and had to lay people off… but could afford more than $15,000 in Derby tickets.
3 Documenting My Audacity » Blog Archive » Problems at the KDP // Aug 12, 2008 at 12:14 pm
[…] Payne just posted and open letter to Jennifer Moore, the KDP Chairwoman, over at Page One. The letter was really hard hitting, and accused Jennifer […]
4 jake // Aug 12, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Forgot to mention this earlier… but KDP actually spent $29K on Derby tickets. 3/7/08: $7,495, 4/28/08: $508, 6/4/08: $14,000, 6/20/08: $7,200.
Spent $11,087 on vehicle rentals on 04/16/08 for alleged get out of the vote efforts.
Paid Sara Glove Company $1,621 (for what, gloves? rain gear?) on 11/12/07.
Since January 2007 til now, the KDP has spent approximately $5,400 in service fees to its bank. For what? Bounced checks?
And why is Megan Brown being paid $10,000 per month?
5 The Dude // Aug 12, 2008 at 3:49 pm
This is it? C’mon man, I was expecting something BIG. A bombshell. A John Edwards-size shocker. A f-up massive proportions. Graft, corruption, orgies, besitality, wide-stances, at least a little nepotism …. but rehashing the party convention? ZZZZZzzz.
6 Republican gadfly // Aug 12, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Dude, Kent Downey’s not involved in this. So you can scratch the orgies and bestiality. LMAO
7 jake // Aug 12, 2008 at 4:07 pm
So it’s fine for Jennifer to threaten a life-long Democratic loyalist because he was critical of she and her friend?
It’s fine to continually hurt a man who has done nothing but share his honest point of view by threatening him with lawsuits that he cannot afford?
It’s fine for the CHAIRWOMAN of the Kentucky Democratic Party to intimidate people because she disagrees with them and can’t handle criticism she rightly deserves?
To me, that’s a big effing deal.
Jeff Noble and the rest of the KDP deserves an apology. Now.
8 The Dude // Aug 12, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Actually, your critique on the spending is more damning than the Noble/Karmik stuff IMHO.
$1,600 for gloves and $5,400 in bank fees seems hard to justify. I guess the bank fees could be for processing credit card donations or something, but that amount would seem to indicate an outrageous amount of credit card contributions, which is unlikely.
How much did previous chairs spend on Derby? Especially those who had Democratic Governors? That might help determine if the Derby spending is out of line or not.
Jennifer shouldn’t resign now. Give her a chance to show some results in November. I’m not exactly sure how it translates, but if spending like a drunken republican at Derby makes for pick-ups in the state legislature or Congress, then maybe that is what needs to be done. If there aren’t pick-ups, then a decision may need to me made by the powers that be.
9 jake // Aug 12, 2008 at 4:19 pm
The Dude: You’re a funny man.
10 alan harbig // Aug 12, 2008 at 4:25 pm
she’s just a common guttersnipe. she needs to go. now. it disgusts me that she trashes a decent guy like Jeff and she can’t manage a budget. she’s worse than lundy and that’s a hard thing to think (and harder to write). at least we knew what a snake he was.
11 Notmarknickolas // Aug 12, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Jake,
Good stuff, the spending really needs to be questioned. Remember, there were hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of what is labeled as “GOTV” payments (which btw, according to KREF rules is insufficient definition of spending. Every expense has to be laid out, not just lumpsum) to Urban Projects from Philly (where no one is corrupt. No-sir-re-bob) there as well that have never been really explained.
Here’s a few other’s of interest:
-I agree, the Megan Brown one is interesting.
Do a google search on her. Find anything? Other than she used to be a communications director for Jennifer Granholm, me either.
-$150 Chuck Gevenden for “event security” on 6/11/08…huh?
-my personal favorite 4/1/08 $143.00 paid for a speeding ticket in Ohio County
-Alomst $3,000 a month for toner (i dunno if that’s bad, but seems a little high to me).
-The rental cars are interesting too. If I’m not mistaken, you can only use federal funds to support federal candidates and KDP cited that they were for “GOTV”. It was a primary, meaning there it no federal candidate to get the vote out for, what were they renting them for?
-I also know there is an expense for $5,400 worth of car repair. Can’t find it on-line but I know it occured.
Wish I had a job that would pay my speeding tickets and fix my car for me =(
12 jake // Aug 12, 2008 at 6:22 pm
If I’m not mistaken, the repair bill was for a bus/van/RV the KDP rented. Not sure what happened. But that’s the only thing I can explain.
13 Rose // Aug 12, 2008 at 10:17 pm
She’s poop.
14 vernon // Aug 13, 2008 at 7:31 am
Jake I saw on Jeff Nobles’ blog that he is going to Frankfort for a meeting. Has he been called on the carpet by the KDP leadership?
15 jake // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:03 am
Nope, not meeting with KDP.
16 Forks of Elkhorn // Aug 13, 2008 at 8:32 am
There is an At-Large seat that is currently vacant. Noble should seek it and he probably has enough votes to get it. That would keep the party from having to amend the bylaws if your story is correct. That would save everyone a lot of trouble.
17 anti_liberal // Aug 13, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Where is the green hot dog selling Jerry “I took state contracts without bid as a legislator and lost my seat over it” Lundergan when you need him?
18 Forks of Elkhorn // Aug 15, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I guess this new Clinton stuff pretty much makes the Noble stuff look like small potatoes. The KDP appears to be equal-opportunity miscounters. Noble was an Obama delegate at the state convention.
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