27 responses so far ↓

• 1 David Crowell // Oct 15, 2010 at 3:31 pm

  I’m no Lally supporter, but blaming him for his brother’s actions? Really?

• 2 jake // Oct 15, 2010 at 3:33 pm

  He was campaigning on Lally’s behalf and allegedly assaulted a Yarmuth supporter.

  Uh.

  I think that’s significant.

• 3 michael kelley // Oct 15, 2010 at 3:33 pm

  Mr. Lally was probably provoked to assault due to the victims “gay behavior.” We all know how much those Lallys fear gay behavior.

• 4 James R. // Oct 15, 2010 at 3:41 pm

  Thought republicans believed in free speech, or is just their free speech they believe in?
  Kinda sad story really. This is the problem in the USA today. If you disagree with someone, we have to demonize the other person. Apparently Todd Lally brother took it to another level though. Real sad indeed.

• 5 Bobbie // Oct 15, 2010 at 3:52 pm

  I don’t like the whole ‘apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’ mantra as I am one of four and I PROMISE you the four of us couldn’t be any more different! Not fair to Judge Lally by his brother. That being said Lally should immediately take him off the campaign trail and denounces his actions. I am not a fan of Lally but you have to cut him some slack here!

• 6 David Crowell // Oct 15, 2010 at 4:10 pm

  I would imagine that Lally’s brother won’t be on the campaign staff again. If he is, I’ll reverse my earlier opinion.

• 7 CM // Oct 15, 2010 at 4:37 pm

  Your a despicable player bringing this up. There was no campaigning at all…..Your credibility is now ZERO….You only embarass yourself. What is your goal Jake, to be the new Prez Hilton?

• 8 jake // Oct 15, 2010 at 4:56 pm

  Really? Because that’s allegedly been the word for several days.

  I’ve heard it from Republican operatives, folks within LMPD, Democratic operatives and electeds.

  I’ve been sitting on this since the 10th, out of respect, to give them time to get things cleared up.

• 9 jake // Oct 15, 2010 at 4:58 pm

  P.S. You saying I have zero credibility doesn’t make it so.

  Otherwise my two very successful websites wouldn’t still be in existence. Republicans wouldn’t read me. Democrats wouldn’t read me. And the press wouldn’t read me.

• 10 Jonathan Meador // Oct 15, 2010 at 5:10 pm

  Some Republicans are just really hands-on with their work, is all.

• 11 CM // Oct 15, 2010 at 5:14 pm

  Really?, then drop the word “allegedly” and stick your neck out legally Jake. GO ahead, do it!
  ALL the media reading this need to know this is now the perfect example of who this man is. His politics and bile mean more to him than the truth or even attacking someone’s family memeber. SAD.

• 12 Earl // Oct 15, 2010 at 5:14 pm

  Get that “Green negotiating his sellout” column ready, Jake.

  I would have expected him to endorse Heiner before Fischer, given his public positions and posturing. Maybe Fischer’s offered him an Escalade.

• 13 Jay Hill // Oct 15, 2010 at 5:21 pm

  Jake there is absolutely no basis for your accusation. Todd’s brother has never been a part of or worked for the campaign in any capacity either paid or volunteer. For someone who touts himself as an investigative reporter, I am disappointed that you would level an accusation of this magnitude and not have what it takes to even call and verify the truth. Seems pretty irresponsible to me.

  Again, if you would like to get the truth all you have to do is call and ask. Todd asked you to sit down and meet back in May and you refused. This kind of attack is the exact same kind of stuff that you would rail against if it were anyone else. But since its you leveling the attack I guess that makes it OK.

• 14 jake // Oct 15, 2010 at 5:50 pm

  In case you dipsticks hadn’t noticed/are incapable of comprehending how things work here: “allegedly” is a term used when people allege something – which is what’s happening here. Multiple people ALLEGED the information to me, to the Yarmuth camp, to other reporters.

  If you’d bother to read before commenting, you’d also recognize that I asked questions rather than pushing this. And I quote:

  Does this mean Todd Lally advocates this sort of behavior on the campaign trail? And do all apples that fall from the tree behave in the same manner?

  To Jay: Unfortunately for you, there are tons of folks who’ve told me that Jeff has campaigned on his brother’s behalf. And that’s not unreasonable to assume.

  What I have heard, repeatedly, from multiple sources in different capacities who do not know each other: the shit hit the fan when the individual said they were voting for Yarmuth.

  It’s public record that I do not and have never touted myself as an investigative reporter or journalist and often eschew those terms. Here on this very website, even.

  Interestingly, your campaign did not return repeated telephone calls, which I started making on the morning of the 11th.

  Why would I sit down with someone I perceive to be a bigot?

  You can keep spinning, forcing me to continually trash Todd Lally to ensure that he loses harder than he’s already going to, or you can let the issue die. It’s up to you.

• 15 CM // Oct 15, 2010 at 6:01 pm

  Of course you want the “issue’ to die because you’ve been caught in a filthy lie. Oh no, your not going to get away with this.

• 16 jake // Oct 15, 2010 at 6:04 pm

  It’s “you’re” and where’d I say I want the issue to die?

  I want nothing more than to keep trashing Todd Lally. At every opportunity.

• 17 Steve Magruder // Oct 15, 2010 at 6:40 pm

  CM, what part are you claiming is the lie? If you mean all of this story, that would not sound credible.

• 18 Big Daddy // Oct 15, 2010 at 8:44 pm

  If I am not mistaken, Jeff is a former pro boxer!

• 19 flipper273 // Oct 16, 2010 at 8:31 am

  repugliklans + Lally = losers.

• 20 Static // Oct 16, 2010 at 11:53 pm

  Jake, curious as to why my last comment was deleted? It had nothing but facts in it and sadly and irresponsibly, your original post about this story was missing quite a few. His brother was NOT campaigning on behalf of Todd and this assault had absolutely nothing to do with someone saying they supported Yarmuth. That is a pretty ridiculous accusation to throw around and wreckless to say such a thing. The only thing you got right were the charges. You could pull up the police report and realize you are completely wrong about the circumstances of this story.

  Also, perusing older blog postings I noticed you said in one of them that you were laughing it up with Marty Pollio at Comedy Caravan. Marty is Todd’s uncle, so I would hope you would have a little more tact than to post stories about their family’s personal business. Todd is running against John Yarmuth in this election. Those are the only 2 people that personal affairs should be mentioned about. And as you have noticed, even the anti-Lally establishment in this comments section agrees with me.

• 21 anonymous // Oct 17, 2010 at 9:15 am

  Jeff Lally is a heavy weight boxer …. hmmm ….

  If allegations are true, seems he MIGHT get in bigger trouble for this typically violent teabagging republican behavior than if he was not registered as a heavy weight boxer.

  Oh Jake, I find it funny that CM posts comments as if he/she has first hand knowledge of the alleged assault but does not post any specifics.

• 22 oh really ? // Oct 17, 2010 at 9:52 am

  Given Lally’s debate performances he is close to this type of behavior demonstrated by his brother – he has been rude, interrupting John Yarmuth every chance he gets – Lally has certainly demonstrated bully behavior in the debates – also his new commercial is laughable – a business that has been out of business for almost twenty years and he is trying to link that to Yarmuth? also standing in front of the “closed” sign in front of the old Fifth Quarter restaurant – the tea baggers never ever let the facts or reason enter into the debate!

• 23 jake // Oct 17, 2010 at 10:38 am

  Guess you don’t read or pay attention. Comments you’ve left re in the moderation queue because of the ridiculous and homophobic shit you’ve said.

  And if Lally didn’t assault someone who – despite multiple people who are not connected telling – mentioned that they’d be voting for Yarmuth instead of his buttcramp of a brother, then all three of these very upstanding individuals – 2 of them Republicans supporting Lally – would be liars. And I’m pretty sure that’s not based in reality.

  I have no idea who Marty Pollio is. Did you look at the byline? Most certainly wasn’t written by me. Possibly the individual who worked with this website until last year.

  When you’re a candidate running for high elected office like this, you agree to be an open book. And when your brother campaigns on your behalf (you’ll note that no one has been able to prove that he hasn’t advocated for the election of his brother, volunteered, done whatever he can – he’s also got a Lally yard sign), that’s significant. Especially when he is arrested for alleged assault and has a history of other dangerous charges.

  When someone so close to you – your prominent brother – exhibits criminal behavior and is a repeated offender on another dangerous front, I think that opens the book to whether or not you (the candidate, not you the commenter) exhibit the same behavioral traits.

  You Lallybots are telling multiple stories in the comments here. Most of them will not be published because they’re derogatory and nasty. But you have a ton of different excuses for that behavior, the arrest, that he wasn’t arrested, that he wasn’t in jail (he was). If you don’t like what I’ve had to say and the questions I’ve been polite enough to ask, rather than obfuscate… then maybe you’d like to delve deeper into the Lally history? Maybe we could talk about other instances of insane shit that would turn the voting base even more off?

• 24 Static // Oct 17, 2010 at 12:16 pm

  I never said he wasn’t arrested. He was and the charges speak for themselves. But it had absolutely NOTHING to do with someone speaking out against Todd, the campaign, or anything remotely related to it. WLKY did a story on it on Friday night and got the details right. Why can’t you? His brother Jeff has NEVER had anything to do with the campaign and has never helped out on the campaign. How do you want me to prove that he hasn’t been apart of it? Kind of hard to prove something when it has never happened. Does he have a yard sign in his yard? Well I’m sure he does, but that hardly makes him apart of the campaign. As Bobbie said in an earlier post, she is one of 4 siblings and they are all completely different. Well Lally is one of 8 siblings and 7 of them have been upstanding, model citizens. Jeff has had his share of problems but I think most on this board can agree that every family has a bad apple. Hence the reason it was specifically outlined when Todd entered the race that Jeff would not be campaigning on his behalf.

• 25 jake // Oct 17, 2010 at 1:59 pm

  You keep saying he’s never had anything to do with the campaign. So why has he campaigned for his brother?

  It’s semantics.

  Keep spinning.

• 26 GtownReader // Oct 18, 2010 at 7:39 am

  Remember when Melissa Mershon’s sister got busted for trashing opposing candidate signs?

• 27 GtownReader // Oct 18, 2010 at 7:25 pm

  Hey! –I KNOW Jeff Lally — just didn’t know his last name. And I originally met him in the infamous alley, where we discussed a home project he had completed. Even though we met as “strangers” who live in the same neighborhood, he has been nothing but hospitable & respectful to me on the occasions when I have encountered him. Never anything “political.” I was aware at one time that he found himself in financial straits – even before Hurricane Ike did a number on his property. (My only complaint is that he sometimes puts “junk” on the alley when it isn’t yet “junk pick-up time.” But a lot of folks are guilty of that.) He has always seemed so controlled with his emotions, sounds like the guy hit a tipping point.
  No, his brother won’t get my vote – & that is strictly “political.”

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