Evidence Shows Trey Grayson Misleading Voters on his Record
May 13 2010 - 12:26PM
Business Wire
The Rand Paul Campaign issued the following:
One of the key planks of establishment-backed Trey Grayson’s
Senate campaign has been to paint himself as a fiscal conservative
through claims that he cut spending 15 percent from his Secretary
of State budget. Newly uncovered facts cast a shadow on those
claims.
Documents obtained by the Rand Paul campaign show that Trey
Grayson requested millions of dollars in budget increases during
his tenure as Secretary of State. For example, the 2008 budget for
the Office of Secretary of State was $3,132,500. But for 2009,
Grayson’s office requested a budget of $4,335,600, a huge increase
38 percent.
In addition to requesting large spending increases, Grayson also
opposed cuts to his budget. Media reports confirm that Grayson
wrote letters to then State Budget Director Mary Lassiter,
protesting the cuts to his budget and calling them a “bad
move.”
“Career politicians like Trey Grayson will say anything to get
elected, and Kentuckians are sick and tired of it,” said campaign
manager David Adams. “Grayson boasts about cutting spending and
doing ‘more with less,’ but I don’t know how he can do it with a
straight face. Trey didn’t cut spending, he requested a ton of it
and fought against budget cuts when they were forced on him.”
The Paul campaign has created a website, www.TreySpends.com, to
highlight for Kentuckians both Grayson’s spending requests and
opposition to budget cuts.