I hope that this makes the rounds. Joe Sonka of the Insider Louisville has a great story up of Republican nominee(?) for Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin. When asked about his lack of support for Mitch McConnell after the 2014 Primary, Bevin went into verifiable lie mode. Bevin claims the following:
“I literally know of no other elected official in this state who went to more events between May and November in support of candidates and support of Mitch McConnell and other down ticket races than I did,” said Bevin. “I knocked on doors, I made phone calls, I wrote checks myself, and I physically attended fundraiser after fundraiser.”
However, the FEC has no records of Bevin writing any checks to McConnell's campaign.
It gets worse.
According to the Herald Leader, Bevin also said that if anyone doubted that he worked hard to support McConnell in that campaign, Larry Cox — and old friend and advisor of McConnell — would vouch for him.
Sonka took Bevin up and this and called Larry Cox.
“No, I cannot do any of that,” said Cox, struggling to contain shocked laughter. “I don’t know why he would even invoke my name. That is inviting the discrediting of what he had to say. I am lost, I really am lost. No, there was never any evidence of support for Mitch McConnell of which I’m aware at all.”
Cox went on to say that Bevin was lying. And he is not the only Republican to call Bevin a liar.
Bill Stone, the former chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party, says he’s never seen any third-party evidence, videotape or audiotape in which Bevin expressed support for McConnell.
“It’s hard to mend fences when you don’t tell the truth,” said Stone.
This is just too good. Nothing like lying to potential voters and getting caught at it.