McCain also endorsed Jerry Moran, a moderate, who ran a toxic and perhaps even criminal campaign against Teaparty Hero Todd Tiahrt in the KS primary Tuesday. When the KS Rifle Assoc endorsed Tiahrt, the Moran campaign called director Patricia Stoneking and threatened her that she would be “sorry when Moran became the Senator” and that the organization would lose its membership. Stonekings press account of the threatening phone call prompted the head of Kansans for Life, David Gittrich to come forward with a similar experience when that group endorsed Tiahrt. The campaign manager threatened Gittrich with discrediting the organization because he “knew things from Gittrich’s high school years” in the 1960s. http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2010/07/did-moran-staffer-make-threats/ Moran flatly denied any threats were made. Add to this the story Karl Rove told of Moran’s attempt to trade his vote for a campaign fundraiser. http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003716717 Moran again flatly denied any requests were made. And then there was the hacking of a newspaper’s political website poll. http://prairiepolitics.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/about-the-poll/ Moran again denied any involvement even tho the script traced the hacking back to a campaign employee Tyler York and that guy he knows Alan Romans. Both men referred to the hacking on their facebook pages.
McCain stood by his endorsement and Moran outspent Tiahrt more than 2:1. KS Republicans have nominated the most crooked politician ever to have campaigned here. And the press and McCain love him.
