Again, I normally don't like to do two diaries on the same race on the same day but this needs some attention:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
Kentucky Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is trying to twist the knife on the resignation of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) campaign manager Jesse Benton.
Benton, on Friday, announced his plans to resign from the campaign amid ongoing questions about his alleged role in a 2012 Iowa bribery scandal related to Ron Paul. His resignation was effective Saturday.
On Tuesday the Grimes campaign released a new we ad hitting McConnell on Benton's resignation. The ad, obtained by TPM, splices together t.v. news reports of Benton resigning from the campaign. "Kentuckians deserve answers" the ad concludes.
The ad follows a three-day weekend in which Grimes continued to point the finger at McConnell over Benton's resignation. In an interview with a Louisville Insider reporter when asked about Benton, Grimes said, "I think they are very serious questions that Mitch McConnell, his campaign, needs to answer."
In a separate interview with WHAS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Louisville, Grimes also said "trust has always been an issue for Mitch McConnell and his campaign. And he has got some serious questions regarding these charges that he and his campaign are going to have to respond to."
A year ago audio surfaced of Benton saying he was holding his nose for two years by working with McConnell because it would be a "big benefit" to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in 2016. That audio made McConnell do damage control and suggested that McConnell's relationship with Benton, the former political director for Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign, was at times strained. - TPM, 9/2/14
Hit him with everything you have and stay brutal. Click here to contribute and donate to Grimes' campaign so she can defeat McConnell in November:
http://alisonforkentucky.com/