Posted on 05/05/2015 6:44:44 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Republican candidate for governor James Comer has flatly denied he abused his college girlfriend and said his campaign was moving forward.
Comer, one of four candidates seeking the Republican nomination for governor, scheduled a news conference Tuesday at the Hilton Lexington/Downtown to address the allegations.
The news conference comes one day after Marilyn Thomas outlined several accusations in a letter to the Louisville Courier-Journal and threatened to bring down his campaign two weeks before Election Day.
In a letter to the Courier-Journal, Thomas said Comer hit her and drove her to a medical clinic to receive an abortion in 1991.
Marilyn Thomas and Comer dated while both attended Western Kentucky University. Thomas said Comer was physically and mentally abusive.
On Tuesday, Comer acknowledged dating Thomas and said the two mutually ended their relationship in the 1990s. Comer said he never hit her and never drove her to an abortion clinic.
"I flatly deny that allegation; it is untrue," he said. "Everyone who knows me understands that the charges are completely incompatible with everything I stand for. Everything that I am."
Comer said the last time he saw Thomas was in 2001 in New York City, when the two had dinner and she gave him a political book. He held up the book, showed it to reporters and read a passage signed on the inside.
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Sounds like a typical, demonic-rat smear campaign right before an election.
Anita Hill sure gets around.
Do they know which campaign spread it?
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