LEXINGTON, Ky. — Over the last week, the campaigns of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and GOP gubernatorial nominee Attorney General Daniel Cameron been attacking each other over parallel campaign finance controversies.
Both campaigns are hyping the others’ issues to the public and to the FBI. Cameron’s official office first referred the matter of a donor linked to more than $200,000 in donations to Beshear and the Kentucky Democratic Party (KDP) well over the legal limit to the FBI on Thursday.
Then late Friday KDP’s legal team mirrored the actions of Cameron’s office. A KDP attorney alerted the FBI and the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky of details surrounding a cluster of donations given to, and later refunded by, Cameron from a recovery center that his office was investigating. On Monday, the Associated Press first reported that Cameron “directly solicited” contributions from the center, which is based in Morehead.
