Subject: [big campaign] Re: Crossroads donor in KY in legal battle with Conway's AG office
From: Aniello Alioto <[email-masked]>
To: Marge Baker <[email-masked]>
Cc: Diallo Brooks <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:25:58 -0400
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

Good catch Marge!
This story is also breaking at
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/rove-ally-terry-forcht-targets-jack-conway/story?id=11974168

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Marge Baker <[email-masked]> wrote:

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> http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/10/28/conway_kentucky_terry_forcht/index.html
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> Thursday, Oct 28, 2010 09:58 ET
> *Campaign finance conflict revealed in Ky. Senate race* *A businessman who
> is being sued by Attorney General and Senate hopeful Jack Conway is funding
> Rand Paul Video *
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> By Justin Elliott <http://www.salon.com/author/justin_elliott/index.html>
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> Kentucky Senate candidates, Democrat Jack Conway, left, and Republican Rand
> Paul, before a debate in Louisville, Ky.
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> ABC reports<http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/rove-ally-terry-forcht-targets-jack-conway/story?id=11974168>on a campaign finance conflict in Kentucky, where state Attorney General
> Jack Conway faces Republican Rand Paul:
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> In the bitter U.S. Senate race in Kentucky, a local millionaire has helped
> launch a barrage of ads attacking the Democratic candidate – a candidate
> who, as the state's attorney general, is prosecuting the businessman's
> nursing home for allegedly covering up sexual abuse, records show.
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> In addition to donating personally to Republican Rand Paul's upstart
> campaign, Forcht is the banker handling funds for American Crossroads.
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> So basically Forcht, whose Hazard Nursing Home is alleged<http://www.kentucky.com/2010/08/06/1378702/hazard-nursing-home-charged-in.html>by Conway to have covered up the sexual abuse of a senior, is now targeting
> Conway in the campaign. He's doing this as a donor for Paul and as the
> banker for Crossroads, the group tied to Karl Rove that is spending big
> against Democrats around the country -- including Conway.
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> The ABC piece<http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/rove-ally-terry-forcht-targets-jack-conway/story?id=11974168>also floats the possibility that Forcht has donated to Crossroads' partner
> group, American Crossroads GPS, which is organized under a section of the
> tax code that allows it to keep donors anonymous. It's possible Forcht is a
> donor to GPS, but (barring an extraordinary leak) we will never know. This
> highlights one of the problems with lack of disclosure: potential conflicts
> can pretty easily be hidden from public view.
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> Here's one of the Crossroads ads against Conway:
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