Plaid lodge complaint against Kevin Madge (From South Wales Guardian)

Plaid lodge complaint against Kevin Madge

1:18pm Friday 12th June 2009

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KEVIN Madge, deputy leader of Carmarthenshire county council and leader of the Labour party, has been reported to the Public Service Ombudsman over alleged "misleading and inaccurate accusations" relating to the work of AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas.

The complaint, lodged by Plaid, claims Cllr Madge has made several public statements and written letters to local newspapers, attacking Mr Thomas for doing nothing on the issue of European Convergence Funding for Carmarthenshire, even though he has been well aware of the extensive work undertaken by the AM.

"In spite being well aware of evidence to the contrary Cllr Madge has been happy to make defamatory statements in the press which are wildly inaccurate in a bid to damage the well respected reputation of a fellow politician, in what is quite a cynical and cheap political point scoring exercise," said a Plaid spokesperson.

Mr Thomas said he was "disappointed" such a complaint had to be made, but insisted he was the subject of false allegations.

Cllr Madge was unavailable for comment.

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