DGA-Backed Group Launches New TV Ad in KY to Hold Cameron Accountable For Covering for Bevin’s Dangerous Pardons

DGA-Backed Group Launches New TV Ad in KY to Hold Cameron Accountable For Covering for Bevin’s Dangerous Pardons

Defending Bluegrass Values, a group backed by the Democratic Governors Association, launched a new TV ad titled “Outrage.”

The ad exposes Daniel Cameron’s failed record of covering for former Governor Matt Bevin’s appalling and corrupt pardons of more than a dozen violent criminals, including a man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting and nearly killing a 15-year-old boy, along with a convicted felon whose brother contributed to Bevin’s campaign.

At the time, Cameron said the scandal was “something we’ll look at,” but has sat back for three years and watched as some of the criminals were arrested again and has still refused to appoint a special prosecutor.

“If Daniel Cameron covered for Matt Bevin’s appalling and corrupt pardons of violent criminals –  even as some of these criminals were getting arrested again – why would Kentuckians trust him as their governor?” said DGA Communications Director Sam Newton “Instead of passing the buck again, Daniel Cameron must finally answer for why he sided with Bevin and his cronies instead of Kentuckians by refusing to get to the bottom of this dangerous scandal.”

Watch the ad here and see a full transcript below:

NEWS ANCHOR: There is outrage tonight from the family of a child rape victim 

NARRATOR: When former Governor Matt Bevin gave more than a dozen violent criminals early release from prison, Attorney General Daniel Cameron promised he’d look into it 

NEWS ANCHOR: One a child rapist, another who killed his parents

 NEWS ANCHOR: Rapists and murderersNARRATOR: But for three years Cameron’s refused to appoint a special prosecutor, even as some of the criminals were arrested for new crimes. Cameron passed the buck and Kentucky got hurt

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