Coordination and the McConnell Recording

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

Allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) say a series of attacks and ethical complaints leveled against him are part of a coordinated campaign by left-wing activists, political operatives, and journalists to prevent his reelection in 2014.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a left-wing watchdog group, filed an ethics complaint against McConnell on Thursday,alleging he improperly used Senate resources to support his reelection effort.

The charges were based on a recording released earlier in the week byMother Jones. Allegedly recorded by two members of Democratic Super PAC Progress Kentucky, the tape captured McConnell discussing campaign strategy with several aides.

Meanwhile, a poll released Tuesday, April 9 by the Democratic polling outfit Public Policy Polling (PPP) showed low favorability ratings for McConnell.

McConnell’s campaign says the confluence of these events suggests coordination.

“When you see in the same week cooked polling, illegal recordings and a series of inter-related attacks from four different groups with strong Democrat Party ties, all then tied up in a bow and flanked by party mouthpieces, you don’t need a team of rocket scientists to see the coordination of this effort,” campaign manager Jesse Benton told theWashington Free Beacon in an emailed statement.