He’s trying to out Lt. Dan the one and only Lt. Dan.
Check his statements from an email blast earlier today:
“If I am elected Senator, I will fight to keep Kentucky coal a central part of our energy future, which is why I support federal funding for advanced coal production technology, such as coal liquification or gasification, and carbon capture and sequestration,” Conway said. “I will oppose cap-and-trade and any other legislation that would raise electricity rates by hundreds of dollars for Kentucky households and take jobs away from our state.”
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“For me this campaign is about creating jobs and opportunity for Kentucky, reducing the deficit and restoring accountability to Washington. I have opposed EPA efforts to impose oppressive air quality standards and I lowered proposed utility rates by more than $95 million,” Conway said. “I have spent my career standing up for working families and I will continue that in the U.S. Senate.”
I wish Jack Conway the best of luck. But because of this – on top of his campaign staff’s obfuscation and his refusal to stand up for what’s right – I hope he loses thousands of votes.
If you can’t be who you truly are as a candidate, then you can’t be considered worthy of getting elected to the United States Senate. I detest Daniel Mongiardo most of the time but you cannot deny he’s being himself on the campaign trail: hard working, disingenuous (see: refusal to admit he verbally attacked the governor), dirty (mountaintop removal), hypocritical, bought, faux redneck, usually homophobic, etc. At least he’s true to himself and you have to respect that.
Why the hell haven’t you followed up on the Lt. Dan health care video? I’m tired of standing up for you only to watch you let Mark Riddle and the rest of your “advisors” screw everything up. Riddle’s going to sink you like he sank Jim King.
You’re losing people like ME – diehard supporters – and you just sit on your laurels letting your campaign staff try to spin me. Time to wake up, buddy, cause you’re about to be shunned harder (not by me) than you ever could have imagined. You ready for that?
18 responses so far ↓
1 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // Mar 18, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Even though I’m an independent, I was supporting Conway until he started kneeling before King Coal. I just may now openly oppose him. Maurice Sweeney anybody?
2 michael kelley // Mar 18, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Go figure, Kentucky has bet its future on coal and tobacco. Both of which worsen the health of its citizens, and both of which have a net negative effect on tax revenue and Kentucky’s economy. To paraphrase Jake ‘no wonder Kentucky can’t have nice things.’
3 jake // Mar 18, 2010 at 2:43 pm
michael kelley wins many, many whore diamonds for the above comment!
4 le gardien de but // Mar 18, 2010 at 2:55 pm
maybe now is the time for Gatewood to throw his hat into the ring, using legalization of MJ as a source of employment, $$$ from taxation, and less money for corrections–to balance the budget…
5 le gardien de but // Mar 18, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Under ‘no wonder Kentucky can’t have nice things.’ ….
I refuse to believe that the front 4 (lt dan, conway, grayson & rand) are the best this state can offer for Kentucky’s representative in the senate.
We deserve better….
6 um. // Mar 18, 2010 at 3:48 pm
le guardien:
We definitely deserve better, but Richie Farmer is gearing up for the Gov. spot instead… Sucks, I know.
7 jim e higgins // Mar 18, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Conway’s too pretty for us anyway. I doubt seriously if he even knows what Cap and Trade is, much less what (mis)informed stand he should take. Hard to trust a male politician who has gotten to where he is solely on the basis of his looks ( I mean it sure as Hell isn’t his brains!). JLo maybe… Jack Conway… nahhh.
8 jake // Mar 18, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Jack’s stupid for his faux stance on this issue.
But saying he’s lacking brains?
Hardly the case.
9 jim e higgins // Mar 18, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Fair enuff… He did find someone intelligent enough to take the bar exam for him. I’ll give ya that.
10 jake // Mar 18, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Really, that’s bullshit.
Sure, he’s probably going to lose at this rate.
Sure, he’s an idiot for listening to Mark Riddle after it was clear he’d torpedoed his campaign.
But he’s still one of the most intelligent people I have ever met, hands-down.
11 jim e higgins // Mar 18, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Ya got me on actually knowing him. My lower than your opinion of him is based on what I’ve seen and heard of him in the media. Maybe in person he commits fewer gaffes (for his sake I hope so…) I still say he’s too pretty though. Do you think he’ll come across better as he gets more experience? Or is maturity a better word?
12 kentondem // Mar 18, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Jack, (EPA) you just stepped in a big pile.
No more contributions for you.
13 Bruce Maples // Mar 18, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Great — is there ANYONE out there who isn’t a Koal Kissup? I’m beginning to think I’m going to have to vote for myself in the Senate race.
14 jake // Mar 18, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Vote for Pootie Tang!
15 Mike Bailey // Mar 18, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Coal will be a piece of the American energy pie for decades to come. Still, there is no need for these pols to debase themselves kissing up to King Coal. Sickening. They ought to acknowledge the reality that coal will be around for a long time, but then begin making plans to diversify away from the dirty stuff.
16 bestmid // Mar 19, 2010 at 10:50 am
Hope Jack’s people are listening… add me to the list. Kentucky whored itself out in DC for decades in exchange for tobacco-price supports. Now we’re doing the same to support another dead, dirty industry. We’ll never have nice things.
DING freaking DING
That’s the alarm – WAKE UP, Kentucky.
17 jaded dude // Mar 22, 2010 at 12:56 am
Great post! I was planning to switch my voter registration late last year from Independent to Democratic so I could vote for Jack Conway in the Primary. However, since Conway has run such an uninspired race from the start, I never made the change or even considered helping him on a grass-roots level. We really can’t have nice things.
18 starryvisitor // Apr 19, 2010 at 6:12 pm
…and to be told kentucky law outlaws
NUCLEAR power plants…wisely!
…and to think that KYNGE COAL will
see two dudes battle for the honor
of being “mister clean” if not saintly….
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