"Mr. Boyd's allegation is absolutely false and deliberately hurtful to the lieutenant governor, his family and the staff who work for him," Ryan Cassin, Cagle's campaign manager said in a statement released Friday night. "Carol Porter obviously wants someone else to spread lies on her behalf, and her willingness to spoon feed poison to an attention-seeking millionaire is despicable and pathetic. We expect Carol's dirty tricks team to continue these kinds of attacks over the next several days in a desperate attempt to erase a 20-point deficit."
Channel 2 Action News reported Friday night that the charges are contained in a complaint filed with the state Ethics Commission by Ray Boyd, a northwest Georgia businessman who had planned to run for governor as a Republican but backed out and has now endosed Cagle's Democratic opponent in his bid for re-election, Carol Porter.
Porter denies any involvement in the filing of the complaint.
"Casey Cagle's attacks are a false and desperate attempt to deflect from the situation," said a statement released by her campaign. "We had no knowledge of Mr. Boyd's ethics complaint until called by Lori Geary from WSB-TV. Mr. Boyd seems to be fed up with the corruption and as [University of Georgia political scientist] Charles Bullock has coined it, 'the fraternity boy antics' under the Gold Dome."
The woman with whom Cagle is alleged to have had the affair also denies that it happened.
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Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle
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