Today the Republican Party of Kentucky released this video:

To mark Jack Conway’s 100th day of silence on his brother’s drug scandal.

Jack helped his brother with a drug scandal. And for 100 days, he’s played pat-a-cake, just cold refusing to talk about it and answer questions. The media ignores it.

And you wonder why Kentucky can’t have nice things.

You’ll probably want to read the gigantic RPK release after the jump…

On Friday, the Republican Party of Kentucky released a new online video blasting Attorney General Jack Conway for intervening in a compromised drug investigation of his brother, a scandal that broke last year and continues to plague Conway’s campaign for re-election. The video commerates day 100 of what has come to be known as the Republican Party’s “Come Clean Conway” campaign. For 100 straight days, Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman Steve Robertson has called on Conway to answer certain questions about what he knew about the situation, when he knew it and why he engaged himself in such an obvious conflict of interest.

In late October of last year, the Louisville Courier-Journal first reported that Matt Conway, a former Jefferson County prosecutor and brother of Attorney General Jack Conway, was tipped off by narcotics detectives with the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) that he was under investigation for trafficking and use of drugs. The tip resulted in the Conway brother receiving a two-day heads up on a search warrant that was issued for his home.

When internal affairs officers questioned Conway about whether he had been tipped off about the investigation, Conway lied. Despite providing false information to investigators, Matt Conway never faced any charges and never received any formal discipline from the prosecutor’s office. However, the LMPD officer who tipped Conway off was fired from his job. He was later reinstated with full back pay and benefits. When it appeared that no person involved in the scandal would face any serious consequences, questions grew louder surrounding Jack Conway’s involvement in the matter and whether he had exerted any improper influence to protect his brother and his own political career.

Because Jack Conway was embroiled in a high-profile U.S. Senate race, Politico, a national news organization, requested police records on the matter and wrote an article focusing on the Attorney General’s involvement in it. In the article, Jack Conway’s spokesperson denied that Jack interfered with the investigation in any way. But the police records told a different story. According to these documents, when Jack Conway learned of the compromised investigation from a political supporter, he directed a private lawyer to call the LMPD and ask questions about whether the Attorney General’s brother was under investigation. Jack Conway then arranged for his brother to secretly meet with this criminal lawyer at Jack’s private residence.

When these facts were brought to light by various news articles, Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman Steve Robertson furiously demanded that Jack Conway come clean on the entire matter.

“It is just plain wrong for the state’s top law enforcement officer to assist a person under criminal investigation in gathering internal information from police and obtaining private legal counsel,” said Robertson. “Jack should have immediately publicly disclosed that the police investigation was compromised and removed himself from the situation. Instead, he did the exact opposite. No one in his right mind would argue that the Attorney General’s brother received special treatment in this matter.”

The story becomes even more disturbing as new details surface. For example, Conway’s criminal defense lawyer somehow obtained a meeting with the Police Chief and subsequent to that meeting, no charges have ever been filed against Matt Conway in this matter.
For the last 100 days, Robertson has issued a press release from the State Party calling on Conway to answer more questions about his involvement in his brother’s investigation. Robertson even spells out the specific questions in each press release:

1. When Conway learned about the investigation from his brother, why didn’t he publicly disclose that a drug investigation had been compromised?
2. Why did Jack Conway and his brother meet with a private lawyer at Jack’s home and what was said during that meeting?
3. Why did this lawyer meet with the Chief of Police and who directed him to do that?
4. Does Conway believe that the subject of a drug investigation deserves a heads up on a search warrant?
5. What does Conway believe should be the course of action when that happens?

Conway has never answered any of Robertson’s questions, but Robertson says he is hopeful that this new video will force Conway to publicly address each point. “It appears that the overriding concern in this matter was always Jack Conway’s political career. But ironically, it is his constant attention to his own ambitions that will be Jack’s undoing,” said Robertson. “Kentucky cannot afford another four years of Jack Conway’s professional and political bad judgment.”