Lots of Lobbying on School Chief Job - a clarification on Mooneyhan

This from Mark Hebert at WHAS TV.

Whew!!!! My head is spinning from the all of the lobbying for a couple of candidates for INTERIM, yes INTERIM state school commissioner job. Not the full time job, just the part time one until a governor is elected in November and the Kentucky Board of Education has regained its footing.

Here's what's going on. A number of conservative groups, including the Family Foundation are pushing Penny Sanders for the interim job. Sanders was the first head of the Office of Education Accountability when it was formed as part of KERA in 1991. Sanders stepped on plenty of toes, including some state lawmakers who were trying to protect their local school boards and superintendents who Sanders' crew caught misspending and making illegal hires...

...One of the conservatives who's apparently in Sanders' corner is state Sen. Gary Tapp (R) Shelbyville. Tapp has made at least one phone call, that I'm aware of, to a political insider, asking for help in torpedoing the board's move to hire former Shelby County School Superintendent for the interim state job. Tapp told me he hasn't lobbied any member of the state board of education to kill Mooneyhan's bid. He refused to say whether he'd called anyone else or what problems he might have with a possible Mooneyhan appointment...

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In fairness to Leon Mooneyhan, I need to followup on my last post about his interim heir-apparency.

I inferred that Mooneyhan was responsible for the error given to the Kentucky Registry of Elections, associated with his contribution to David Williams's 2005 senate campaign. The contribution listed Mooneyhan as KSBA's Executive Director - a post he never held.

But Mark Hebert told me he has seen cases where errors of that nature were entered into the Kentucky Registry of Elections database by a campaign worker and therefore may not be the fault of the contributor.

Fair point.

The facts:
Mooneyhan contributed $500 to Williams in 2005.
KREF data indicates he was Executive Director of KSBA.
He has never served as KSBA Ex Dir.
It is unknown if that information was listed on his check.
The source of the error may, or may not have been, Mooneyhan.