KEY WORDS - PAY OFF

The reported background facts for this piece of disturbing, or should I say revealing, news involving the Democrat Party of Kentucky are:

1. Kentucky Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo and Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway ran against each other in the May Democratic primary for the position of US Senator.
2. Jack Conway won the primary by just 4173 votes but Daniel Mongiardo raised issues about the validity of the results and talked about an official recanvass.
3. A backroom deal was reached which had Mongiardo abandon the recanvass idea and endorse Conway. Conway would help Mongiardo to pay off $80,000.00 of Mongiardo campaign debt.
4. Neither event has occurred and Mongiardo has gone to the media.

Is it possible that two of our leading Democratic party leaders are as shallow as this information indicates? The obvious sad messages are that for $80,000.00 Mongiardo will endorse you for statewide office and that Conway cannot be trusted to follow through with his promises. These facts do not speak well of either of these politicians who currently serve the citizens of Kentucky. Every one of our elected officials have to beyond the public impression that their endorsements can be purchased or that their promises go unfulfilled. In the above scenario, all reported in detail by The Courier-Journal of Louisville, the key words published are, even if taken out of context, "pay off".

Conway will now face Rand Paul, the Republican candidate and favorite of the Tea Party, in November for the position of US Senator. It appears very obvious that the better man, the better candidate and the next US Senator from Kentucky has to be Rand Paul.