Beshear Hides Endorsement of Dr. Dan
Yesterday there was big news in the commonwealth. We all knew it was coming. The Herald-Leader had a dedicated section up on their website by midday. ESPN's Pat Forde wrote about it Thursday night.
We weren't necessarily sure what the announcement was, but we knew that there would be an announcement about Kentucky's basketball coach.
And anyone who knows how news works around here knew it would take up every minute and column inch that didn't contain the weather or the result of Louisville's Sweet 16 game.
Now there's ample evidence that Mongiardo doesn't quite know how to run a campaign, but just about anyone would know that yesterday was about the worst possible day to have an important announcement.
We have no doubt that Beshear meant to bury his endorsement of Dan Mongiardo for US Senate. Not only did he bury it under the announcement of Billy G's firing, he sent it as a press release while he was out of town. We're not sure why the Governor would want to hide his allegiance to his Gov. Lt., but it is certainly interesting commentary.
UPDATE 3/30: PageOneKy puts forward a different perspective by looking at WHAS's latest poll showing Governor Beshear's dismal numbers in Eastern Kentucky. Maybe Beshear buried the endorsement as a favor to Mongiardo. Beshear certainly has a dismal record participating in elections other than his own.
Either way, that's a lot of work to put such distance between two people joined by a slate.
