ABC reports on a campaign finance conflict in Kentucky, where state Attorney General Jack Conway faces Republican Rand Paul:
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, [Terry] Forcht is the banker handling funds for American Crossroads.
So basically Forcht, whose Hazard Nursing Home is alleged 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.
The ABC piece 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.
Here’s one of the Crossroads ads against Conway:
