Nelson County GOP chairman alleges state Rep. McCoy ‘lied to us to get elected’
By JIM BROOKS
Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio
Friday, May 31, 2019 — In a fiery email sent to fellow Republicans Thursday evening, Don Thrasher, the chairman of the Nelson County Republican party, claimed that state Rep. Chad McCoy lied to his fellow Republicans in order to get elected.
Thrasher’s email was a response to an article he said would be published in Friday’s edition of the Kentucky Standard. That article, Thrasher said, has McCoy
The party resolution was critical of McCoy for voting to eliminate the bank franchise tax, and for his support of a bill that would raise the state gasoline tax. The gas tax
Thrasher claims that in his comments to the newspaper, McCoy was being “intentionally deceptive to the people that trusted in him to the right thing in office.”
He adds that McCoy is acting like a Democrat because for calling the gas tax a “fee” in his comments to the newspaper rather than a “tax.” Thrasher notes in his email that McCoy and his wife’s political donations in the past 15 years have only gone to Democrats.
Thrasher also slammed McCoy for failing to mention his intent to support the gas tax bill when he met with 12 members of the county committee for a legislative update two days before McCoy co-sponsored the gas tax bill.
“During my campaign against Dean Watts I never publicly called him a liar, but Mr. McCoy has gone TOO FAR,” Thrasher wrote in his email. “If he would have come clean I believe a lot of us would have appreciated the honesty and given a second chance. But Mr. McCoy has crossed the Rubicon.”
According to Thrasher, some party members have asked him to call on McCoy to resign as state representative — a decision he said he will leave to the county committee, which next meets on Monday, June 18, 2019.
At that meeting, Thrasher said he will present evidence of “serious ethical breaches” regarding McCoy’s conduct as state representative.
“AT SOME POINT PEOPLE HAVE TO STAND UP AND DO WHAT IS RIGHT!” he wrote at the end of his email to county Republicans.
Thrasher included a link to a video excerpt of McCoy’s 2016 debate comments about the gas tax and finding ways to fund infrastructure improvements. Click the link below to play the video.
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