FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky ethics panel says it won’t reconsider an ethics complaint by a Democratic lawmaker against the state House’s Republican leader.
The Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission on Tuesday denied a request by Rep. Jim Glenn to reconsider its dismissal of his complaint against House Speaker David Osborne.
Glenn alleges Republican leaders who control the House used state resources, including a staff lawyer, to help prepare an election challenge against him.
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Glenn won the House seat after last year’s election results initially had him winning by one vote, but a recount put the race in a tie. Republican DJ Johnson eventually withdrew his challenge.
The ethics panel says Osborne’s actions were “authorized by law.”
Pierce Whites, an attorney representing Glenn, says the decision abandoned long-standing rules against using legislative staff in partisan election matters.
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