Hal Heiner, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Kentucky, on Wednesday apologized after he was linked to allegations against his opponent in the Republican primary.
Blogger Michael Adams had accused Commissioner of Agriculture James Comer of assaulting a woman he dated at Western Kentucky University. He told the Lexington Herald-Leader that he contacted people associated with Heiner’s campaign about the allegations against Comer.
“These rumors are the worst type of politics,” Heiner said in a statement to the Lexington Herald-Leader. “It is undignified and un-Christian and not the type of campaign I am running. I personally apologize to Jamie Comer if anyone associated with my campaign is involved.”
Adams maintained that the allegations against Comer are true, but told the Herald-Leader that he learned of the allegations by talking to people who know Comer.
“My proof is from, it’s just accounts from people who knew her,” Adams said. “It’s not like eyewitness accounts. That’s what it is because I can’t get people to come forward.”
Comer told the Herald-Leader that the accusation is a “complete lie.”
In Kentucky
The moonlight falls the softest
In Kentucky;
The summer days come oftest
In Kentucky;
Friendship is the strongest,
Love’s light glows the longest;
Yet, wrong is always wrongest
In Kentucky.
Life’s burdens bear the lightest
In Kentucky;
The home fires burn the brightest
In Kentucky;
While players are the keenest,
Cards come out the meanest,
The pocket empties cleanest
In Kentucky.
The sun shines ever brightest
In Kentucky;
The breezes whisper lightest
In Kentucky;
Plain girls are the fewest,
Maiden’s eyes the bluest,
Their little hearts are truest
In Kentucky.
Orators are the grandest
In Kentucky;
Officials are the blandest
In Kentucky;
Boys are all the fliest,
Danger ever nighest,
And taxes are the highest
In Kentucky.
The bluegrass waves the bluest
In Kentucky;
Yet, bluebloods are the fewest
In Kentucky;
Moonshine is the clearest,
By no means the dearest,
And yet it acts the queerest
In Kentucky.
The dove-notes are the saddest
In Kentucky;
The streams dance on the gladdest
In Kentucky;
Hip pockets are the thickest,
Pistol hands the slickest,
The cylinder turns quickest
In Kentucky.
The song birds are the sweetest
In Kentucky;
The thoroughbreds are fleetest
In Kentucky;
Mountains tower proudest,
Thunders peal the loudest,
The landscape is the grandest-
And politics—the damnedest
In Kentucky.
“In Kentucky,” James H. Mulligan, 1902
Discussion: Who gives the fuck? Not I.
It might be time to bring RICO charges against the Republican party. It seems to be an organized gang of hoodlums and criminals.
Shorter Adams: “My accusation is true. I know because other people said it too.”
My gosh, just what are they teaching in blogger school these days?