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KDP Chair Jennifer Moore has filed a complaint to the Louisville Metro Ethics Commission over Doug Hawkins linking to his Senate campaign site on his official Metro Council page.

POK said it well when they called the LMEC “do-nothing” and offered us this:

Isn’t there a senate race to meddle in somewhere? Some money to raise? Votes to buy? Maybe some legitimate work to be done… like pointing out idiots like Frank Simon have seriously violated campaign finance law again and again? Never hear anything about the real wrongdoers. We want some real leadership. Not bickering over a website.

However, what they didn’t tell us is that the www.doughawkins.com link has been on Hawkins’ Metro Council page for YEARS. Why? Has he been running for Senate for years? No. Actually, DougHawkins.com is a site that Hawkins has paid for with his personal money to provide extraordinary service to his constituents. The page gave people information about flu shot times and locations, garbage pickup, and other stuff like that. Going to that page for information was much easier and intuitive than going to the government site. So, the page has been linked to for years and now that Hawkins is running for Senate the domain is serving as his campaign site and they didn’t think to remove the link from the government site. Besides, since it’s a government site it probably would have taken 2 months to get the link down.

Wow. They probably could have just called Hawkins on the phone and told him to take the link down but instead they had to cause a ruckus. That must mean they think they have a pretty good chance of losing Sen. Perry Clark’s vote in the KY Senate.

By the way, if you don’t believe me - here’s a screenshot of the link on Hawkins’ old Metro Council site, when it was linking to the extraordinary service page:

and here’s proof that www.doughawkins.com was functioning in the extraordinary service fashion I described above. You can still find pages hosted on doughawkins.com that were originally posted as far back as 2003. This one is from 2005:

This cheap political jab at Hawkins may backfire on the KDP and make Hawkins look better than he did before.

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