You thought Daniel Mongiardo’s profanity-laced outbursts on Monday were rough. Well, get ready for this. Here’s the full audio.
Daniel Mongiardo comes unglued and refers to Governor Steve Beshear as an SOB.
Listen:
Think Steve Beshear will continue lying about his support for Mongiardo?
The Lt. Governor owes the Commonwealth an apology for maligning the highest office in the state. For maligning the office for which he is running. And for being a hypocrite.
Transcript:
“I’ve been working on this information technology n health care for a decade. You know where he put it now? He took it out from under me and put it over in Health & Human Services under, uh, Janie Miller, who knows squat about this.
“And, uh, what can I do? Uh, I complain about it publicly. Well, no, n, the governor just says, “I can’t work with this guy.”
“I’ve got, … I’ve got no leverage over this SOB.
“You know I’m, I’m this close to saying fuck it all. I don’t need this job. I don’t need the U.S. Senate.”
13 responses so far ↓
1 T. Mason // Sep 30, 2009 at 10:32 am
These guys (Beshear and Mongiardo) can’t continue to act like everything is OK. It’s time to come clean. Both of them.
2 jake // Sep 30, 2009 at 10:33 am
It’s embarrassing to the Commonwealth.
The Paul supporters are correct – they need to man up and tell the truth. Democrats are making the Republicans look good.
3 FletcherChucklingSomewhere // Sep 30, 2009 at 11:21 am
Mongiardo is right. He’s totally screwed now, but he’s right about Beshear. Beshear is a retro-hack.
4 Not Conservative // Sep 30, 2009 at 11:26 am
Drop out, maybe.
Resign? Uh, yes.
5 Curt Morrison // Sep 30, 2009 at 11:32 am
Here’s what I want to know.
Why Beshear, Mongiardo, Conway & Grayson are all wrapped up in their upcoming elections, who is running the state?
Who is out looking for companies to relocate to Kentucky? Who is trying to make Kentucky a better place to live- where children are educated, streets are safe, and families have livable wages?
6 david // Sep 30, 2009 at 11:54 am
Dr. Dan is done…
7 Francis // Sep 30, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Perhaps we should decouple the Governor and Lt. Governor running together as a slate.
8 Bob // Sep 30, 2009 at 12:10 pm
A rare completely open look at our elected leaders–and do we think the governor has chosen a better running mate for the next election?
9 FletcherChucklingSomewhere // Sep 30, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I think I like Mongiardo a LOT more than I did 48 hours ago. In fact, I might switch parties so I can vote for him in the primary.
10 FletcherLOLingSomewhere // Sep 30, 2009 at 12:51 pm
The curtain at the sausage factory is gone, and now the sausage tastes like curtains…
Right before Beshear terminated my fellow Fletcher appointees and me, we would hear whispers of the coming rapture – how Beshear, the annointed crusader of honor and integrity would arrive on a cloud of heavenly smoke and save the Commonwealth from “Dirty Ernie” as my subordinates liked to call him.
Their sanctimony and smug fervor was cult-like. Of course, their hero turned out to be clunky and ham-fisted from the starting gate. Of all things, he sent Steve Nunn to evaluate us and fire us. About a week after the interview, Nunn sent another Fletcher appointee to fire us, and then he fired THAT guy. Gutless.
But under cover of a gaming/liberal-friendly media (CourierJournal), Beshear has stumbled around Frankfort for about 2 years now – cutting ribbons and trying to get rid of David Williams. Notice there’s no coverage of this audio at the CJ. WTF?
This recording is a rare peek at what only a few of us know firsthand – Beshear is an insincere, untrustworthy and self-serving hack of modest political skill. For him to warmly embrace the plummeting debris that is Jerry Abramson only underscores his underqualification to hold that office.
Two years to go, baby!
11 Andrew Horne // Sep 30, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Although I am a Conway supporter, I like Daniel and feel for him in this.
If anything this is a reaffirmation that politics is dirty. Since it appears that this was supposed to be a private conversation; his only true mistake was in trusting whoever he was with. The doc didn’t say anything that IN A PRIVATE CONVERSATION would shock someone who understood the pressures of running for such an office, particularly when the heat is on. It is almost a given that there is friction between the Gov and the Lt.Gov that’s the nature of politics.
Also, I don’t know why Democrat’s repeatedly beat themselves up about profanity. As VP Dick Cheney told a US Senator to F*%@ off on the floor of the Senate and the Republicans and the press laughed about it. Believe it or not grownups sometimes talk like that.
12 Andrew Horne // Sep 30, 2009 at 1:52 pm
I was just reminded that Dan has been blasting Jack about Fancy Farm. It doesn’t change much of what I said, except I am a little less sympathetic.
13 jake // Sep 30, 2009 at 1:55 pm
You’re right, Andrew.
I still believe it’s great for Mongiardo to tell the truth. Now just wish he’d do so publicly.
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