Frankfort, Ky. (AP) – An ethics complaint that results from the failed run by Republican Daniel Cameron for the governor of Kentucky has reappeared when the former Attorney General of the US Senator Mitch McConnell started at the balmy fighting election next year.
The ethics committee of the state executive industry took another step in the investigation on Wednesday whether Cameron committed an ethics violation by supposedly redeing up certain campaign donations for his 2023 edge for the governor.
An administrative judge is commissioned to check the case and recommend the commission members who would decide whether a violation has occurred.
Cameron condemned the commission’s action as a government weapon that was supposed to damage it because of a “wrong” ethical saying.
“This is the definition of political persecution,” said Cameron in a social media video.
Cameron announced his Senate campaign in February, shortly after McConnell announced that he would not seek re -election next year and signaled the beginning of a up-to-date era in the policy of Bluegrass. The Republican US representative Andy Barr started its course for the seat of the Senate last month, and the Republican field is expected to grow.
On the democratic side, the state MP Pamela Stevenson runs for the Senate. The democratic governor Andy Beshear has excluded an offer from the Senate, as the speculation continues to get up whether he could run for the president in 2028. The last democrat who won a Senate race in Kentucky was Wendell Ford 1992.
The ethics complaint was resumed when the candidates of the GOP Senate compete for donors and notes in spring 2026 far ahead of Kentucky’s primary elections. Cameron and Barr have praised President Donald Trump in the hope of landing his award -winning support.
The ethics committee announced on Wednesday that it initiated a preliminary examination by Cameron in July 2023.
The complaint that the investigation made was accepted by the state of AFL-CIO with forceful democratic relationships. During the heat of the governor race, the Cameron lost to Besear, who won a second term. The Labor Group said that Cameron did not properly operate its position for his own political profit by submitting campaign donations from managers of a treatment organization for drug abuse that was examined by the Attorney General.
In its registration on Wednesday in the case, the ethics committee said that Cameron used his position as a general prosecutor in spring 2022 to “contact a business owner personally and to influence him in order to ask for a fundraising campaign and campaign contributions for his financial advantage”.
“During the conversation, Cameron referred to his official position as a attorney in general, referred to the duties of his office and asked for a specific minimum contribution of $ 30,000,” says the document.
The commission did not identify the business owner on Wednesday, but showed Cameron’s role as a general prosecutor at this time in monitoring health service providers who received Medicaid Fund.
On Wednesday, Cameron confirmed that he retired from the examination of the treatment group of drug abuse after he was drawn to the conflict and reimbursement of campaign donations.
“I will fight it as if I would continue to fight for the great people of this Commonwealth every day,” said Cameron on Wednesday.
If the Commission determines that Cameron violates the State Ethics Act, it could have a civilian punishment of up to 5,000 US dollars for the counted count.
