The Attack Ad

That role became very clear at a campaign contributors' conference held by brothers Charles and David Koch ("coke"), who are driving the biggest truck through the hole McConnell, his allies and the Supreme Court have blown in the campaign-finance system. According to the transcript of a clandestine recording that he has not disputed, McConnell praised the brothers and sounded like "the senator from Koch," as one observer put it.The brothers and their ilk are one reason there has been more than twice as much advertising for McConnell as for Grimes. That's mainly due to $5 million in ads from the Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, a shadowy group that doesn't reveal its donors — but nevertheless ran an ad raising questions about where Grimes' money comes from. Al Cross, former C-J political reporter, is director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues and associate professor in the University of Kentucky School of Journalism