Conway's Conflict of Interest/Ethics Complaints

[t0rnado]

Kentucky Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo is planning to add more charges to the ethics complaint he recently filed against state Attorney General Jack Conway, his opponent in the race for a U.S. Senate seat.

Mongiardo has already alleged that Conway has "violated the public trust" by accepting more than $70,000 in campaign contributions from utility companies, their executives and lobbyists while approving rate hikes.

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Mongiardo's complaint also says Conway approved a $22 million rate increase for Louisville Gas & Electric then accepted thousands of dollars in contributions from the company's executives and its registered lobbyists.

Source: http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/227024-more-charges-to-be-added-to-ag-conway-ethics-complaint

It gets worse. He approved a $6 million increase in utility costs by Kinder Morgan Energy, which is a company that he has between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000 invested in. It makes up over 90% of his stock portfolio as well. Conway had way too much to gain from this deal.

Source: http://jacksconflictofinterest.blogspot.com/2010/04/kentucky-attorney-general-jack-conway.html

We should be on the offensive right now and not on the defensive. Konway nothing more than a corporate whore who wants to rape Kentucky's coal industry.

UPDATE:

There's another ethics violation Konway has committed. This time it is health care(more specifically the nursing home industry) related, however, so it should really sink him. Many Kentuckians might remember Vencor, a health care company founded by Bruce Lunsford(the Democrat that ran against Mitch McConnell in 2008), which filed for bankruptcy and renamed itself to Kindred Healthcare.

Jack Conway's campaign for U.S. Senate received over $50,000 in contributions from the nursing home industry. Those are only the 2009 numbers. We have no way of knowing what the 2010 numbers are, probably tens of thousands more. The majority of those contributions were made by Kindred Healthcare executives.

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Not only has Jack Conway accepted tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Kindred Healthcare executives he also appeared to provide a service for those contributions. In 2009 Attorney General Jack Conway sent U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius a letter asking for the suspension of the nursing home rating system or the star system.

Source: http://theruraldemocrat.typepad.com...-industry-while-kentuckys-elderly-suffer.html

More info on this: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/04/23/1235688/mongiardo-blasts-conway-for-taking.html

UPDATE 2:

I found yet another even larger ethics violation Jack Conway committed. This time, he bent over for big pharma when he accepted a $50,000 check from Purdue Pharma to create a Drug Enforcement Task Force in August of 2009, while the state of Kentucky was suing Purdue Pharma. Remember, this is the same task force Conway said that he would create on his first day as Attorney General. The lawsuit Kentucky was involved in was led by Conway in a federal court, but only a month after Conway received the check, he asked the federal court to move the suit to a state court:

The lady who wrote the article that exposed Jack Conway was threatened with charges of "Witness Tampering" by a deputy AG in Kentucky who was working under Conway:

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september102009/oxycontin_wolf_9-10-09.php

http://www.erinmariedaly.com/clips/ky_attorney_general_oxycontin.pdf

 

[DaisyFL]

Bump

 

[MsDoodahs]

Hmmm.

Reckon why no one at MSNBC asked Conway about this shit?

 

[Aratus]

the most honest candidate all along for the Democrats was ms. darlene fitzgerald price,
and for the acrimony to still have the lt. governor totally livid over the basic fairness of the
system and the way "the game" has been played over the years, does beg a question!

 

[MsDoodahs]

bump.

 

[Mini-Me]

WOWOWOWOOWOWWWWWWWWWWWWW

WOW. Shit, this is one of the most blatant specific cases of corruption I've ever seen.

Is there any possibility the Paul campaign might not know about this yet? This is HUGE.

 

[Aratus]

rand right now is at the KY g.o.p unity rally and i believe mitch mcconnell is speaking...

 

[torchbearer]

they need this info.

 

[Mini-Me]

they need this info.

What's the best way to actually get in contact with them? There's a contact page on Rand's site, but I'm sure someone here has closer connections. What about the Collins?

 

[Aratus]

the two Democrats are still feuding and by my guess-t-i-mation, jack conway is the slicker of the two...

 

[Aratus]

MATT COLLINS! a brilliant idea!!!
most of us here are trying to get
into the live stream of the victory
rally, and thusly we have to wait
until its over for things to pick up!

 

[torchbearer]

i dropped this info in the comments of this article: http://pageonekentucky.com/2010/05/...ate-email-blast/comment-page-1/#comment-86995

may educate a few conway supporters.

 

[Mini-Me]

I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention. This kind of thing could doom Conway.

Then again, if he actually got sent to prison (), could that disqualify him from the race and force Rand to run against someone less unseasonably liberal? I don't see that happening, but still. Wow, this is big.

 

[MsDoodahs]

I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention. This kind of thing could doom Conway.

Another good reason for the liberal left to try and keep the focus on Rand - focusing on Conway might not be pleasant for them...not pleasant at all, especially in light of the recent outing of their boy blumenthal.

 

[Mini-Me]

Another good reason for the liberal left to try and keep the focus on Rand - focusing on Conway might not be pleasant for them...not pleasant at all, especially in light of the recent outing of their boy blumenthal.

Could you maybe make this a sticky? Along with Mongiardo refusing to back Conway, making this go viral should be way more damaging to him than any of the media's smear bs was to Rand.

 

[MsDoodahs]

Actually - posts get more attention as regular posts with ongoing comments, I think.

Which means we need to be commenting in both the threads to keep them on the front page of New Posts.

 

[Mini-Me]

Well, I'm going to be um...
...going to bed for Friday night for a few hours...:o
So I'll have to check back in later on tonight or so for some bumps then.

 

[Dreamofunity]

Did Mongarido use this against him (to the full extent)?

 

[Aratus]

ask trey grayson! he certifies the election count! it was sooooooooooooo close!

 

[t0rnado]

Did Mongarido use this against him (to the full extent)?

No, Mongiardo's campaign did not make this is big as they could have. The ethics complaint was filed too close to the primary.

Also, I just updated the main topic with some more information I found about Conway's ties to Lunsford's old health care company.