Kochvar and Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte’s mysterious campaign manager Brooks Kochvar, the same gentleman who tells Ayotte when to stop talking, is in John DiStaso’s Union Leader column today attempting to argue that the National Republican Senatorial Committee fundraiser for Kelly Ayotte in Washington, DC on September 22nd isn’t really an NRSC fundraiser. "It’s our event. We’re paying for it and we’re hosting it,” he tells DiStaso. And Senators Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn will only attend as “invited guests” of the campaign.
Forget for a moment that NRSC Chairman John Cornyn has already acknowledged his role in the Ayotte fundraiser telling both the Washington Times and Roll Call that he had promised to raise money for her. Consider this instead: The contact on the invitation if you want to give Kelly Ayotte money? Paula Dukes, the PAC Director of the NRSC.
Note also that Cornyn evidently told Roll Call that the money raised for Ayotte on September 22nd in Washington, DC is intended to be used in the General Election against Paul Hodes (provided Ayotte makes it that far), not in the primary against Republicans. We wonder if Ayotte will honor that caveat.
Why not just deny the fundraiser is happening altogether?
Oh, that would be “misleading.” 