Posted on 10/27/2015 7:13:05 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
LEXINGTON — Sitting mere feet from one another in their final gubernatorial debate televised on KET Monday evening, tensions between Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway and Republican Matt Bevin spilled into public view as they tussled on issues like public pensions, health care and the state’s economy.
Conway often laughed aloud during Bevin’s responses and interjections, drawing animated reactions from the GOP candidate as the Democrat sat, at times, with a forced grin on his face.
Both argued simultaneously, drawing moderator Bill Goodman to intervene to get the candidates on track and speak one at a time.
Bevin, who released a television ad attacking Conway and linking him to President Barack Obama earlier Monday, was more often the aggressor in those exchanges. He accused Conway of “shaking down a lot of companies” as attorney general, saying that has proven detrimental to business recruitment.
“This is not a business-friendly state, and in some measure it’s driven by the fact that the actions you’ve taken have been so much more aggressive against corporate America than they have against the EPA, for example,” Bevin said, later pointing to a 2010 lawsuit by the Kentucky Coal Association against the agency for allegedly blocking state-issued mining permits illegally.
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