Comer creates opposing statements about book

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LOUISVILLE — Agriculture Commissioner James Comer pronounced in an talk on WDRB radio that a lady who indicted him of battering her sent him a book autographed by a Connecticut politician, directly contradicting a story he told during a press discussion he and his mother hold May 5 to repudiate abuse allegations

At that press conference, Comer pronounced that Marilyn Thomas was vital in Connecticut in 2001 and that while he was during a legislative discussion in New York, she gathering to his hotel in Times Square and gave him a book in a hotel restaurant.

But Thomas, who concurred she gave him a book, pronounced following that press discussion that Comer was wrong and that she did not accommodate him to give him a book.

“I only watched a small display of a Lowell Weicker book,” she wrote in an email. “He took a lot of liberties with everything. First of all, it was sent to him in a mail.”

That seems to compare a story he told to WDRB’s Lawrence Smith, whose talk with Comer seemed on a station’s website Sunday. Comer is one of 4 Republicans opposed for his party’s gubernatorial assignment in Tuesday’s primary election.

“I constructed explanation that she had been communicating with me by a years and sent me a book that she sealed and all else, and during a time that she sent that to me, Lawrence, we was already in politics, we was already a state representative,” Comer pronounced in a WDRB interview, regulating a word “sent” twice.

Edwin King, Comer’s discuss manager, pronounced Comer’s statements are not unsuitable and that he mispoke on WDRB.

Thomas has indicted Comer of physically and emotionally abusing her during a two-year attribute while they were students during Western Kentucky University.

She pronounced Comer strike her and belittled her, and gathering her to a hospital in Louisville to cancel their child. She also pronounced Comer called her parents’ home in Union County during 2 a.m. one morning to bluster her.

Comer has denied a allegations and during a press discussion in Lexington a day after The Courier-Journal

At that press conference, Comer said, “We met in a small hotel, a small grill area, and she pronounced we have a present for you. Normally, we don’t keep gifts, though we collect domestic books and she told me that she was vital with Lowell Weicker, who was afterwards possibly a stream United States Senator from Connecticut or a former United States senator from Connecticut … he had created a book entitled Maverick

Weicker told CN|2 that Thomas was vital in his home and holding caring of it while he and his mother traveled.

King pronounced Comer never dictated to indicate that a book was sent by a mail.

“That’s not what he meant by that,” King said. “There is no doubt about that she brought him a book, she brought him a book in a hotel lobby.”

King pronounced Comer has no approach to infer that Thomas gave him a book in a face-to-face meeting.

“He only misspoke. She brought a book to him,” King said.

It was during slightest a second time Comer has pronounced that Thomas “sent” him a book. He did it during a new discuss on Kentucky Sports Radio, though fast backtracked and pronounced that she palm delivered it to him.

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