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Mongiardo And Conway Make Vicious Attacks On Eath Other Just Days Before Their Primary

In Kentucky, Democrats Dan Mongiardo and Jack Conway are slamming one another with vicious attacks with just a day before their contentious primary.  Politico reports:  

Having watched a double-digit polling lead evaporate ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary, Kentucky Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo is in a dogfight to stay even slightly ahead of state Attorney General Jack Conway’s campaign. Mongiardo, who led Conway by three points in a Research 2000 poll and one point in an automated SurveyUSA poll this week, blames the close election on his rival’s financial advantage and accuses Conway of catering to powerful interests. Washington is full of politicians like Jack Conway. Jack Conway wants to be part of that culture,” Mongiardo said, arguing that his opponent “was bragging about how he’s the national Democrats choice until his good friend Martha Coakley lost and then he said he was an independent.”

While WLKY reports:

The race for U.S. Senate is heating up as Democratic candidate Daniel Mongiardo launched charges against opponent Jack Conway. Mongiardo demanded that Conway denounce a series of anonymous phone calls being made to voters. “Jack may be a millionaire lawyer, but those of us — including me from rural Kentucky — will not fall for these desperate campaign tactics,” Mongiardo said. The calls being made to voters in eastern and western Kentucky are false, according to Mongiardo’s campaign. The automated phone calls allege that Mongiardo recently told a group of environmentalists that a so-called cap-and-trade policy would be a good idea… Conway’s campaign spokeswoman said the calls aren’t coming from them. “We absolutely had nothing to do with these calls. Any allusions to the fact that we have is just a conspiracy theory by a campaign that is failing in these last few days before the election,” Conway campaign spokeswoman Allison Haley said… “It’s just Kentucky common sense. Where else would they be coming from — from some ordinary person in Kentucky, some guy in Washington, D.C., or California; of course they’re coming from D.C. If they’re not, he should stand up and denounce them as false,” Mongiardo said.

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