An incumbent state representative is suing a shadowy political organization over a mailer it sent to voters in her district ahead of Kentucky's primary election.
State Rep. Kimberly Moser filed a lawsuit May 4 in Kenton County Circuit Court against the Kentucky Liberty Alliance, accusing the organization of producing a defamatory mailer depicting her as a masked thief and making false statements about her tax payment history.
Moser, a Taylor Mill Republican facing a primary challenger in her re-election bid for a Kenton County district, argues that she’s suffered humiliation and damage to her standing in the community, as well as expenses from investigating and responding to the mailer.
Todd McMurtry, Moser’s attorney, wrote in the lawsuit that the organization’s actions were “extreme and outrageous,” arguing that the mailer's publication was timed to inflict maximum political and reputational damage during an election cycle.
Mailer depicts state representative as a masked thief
A photograph of one of the mailers, filed as part of the suit, shows a digitally manipulated image of Moser wearing a black mask and holding a cartoonish sack of money. It states that Moser has accrued nearly $1,000 in penalties for delinquent property tax payments. (...)
On its mailer, the Kentucky Liberty Alliance lists its address in McLean, Virginia, sharing a location with a strip mall.
The organization isn’t registered with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, according to John Steffen, executive director of the state agency responsible for campaign finance transparency. Steffen said his office is looking into the Kentucky Liberty Alliance's existence, but has so far been unable to reach the group.
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