An aide to Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell says the senator didn't mislead WHAS11 News.

Don Stewart, an aide to McConnell, admits he sent an e-mail to Washington reporters. In it, he noted that some conservative bloggers were questioning the financial status of a boy asking Congress to override President bush's veto of the S-CHIP Bill.

Stewart says he told the senator about his e-mails on Thursday.

Last Friday, WHAS11's Mark Hebert asked McConnell if he or anyone on his staff had anything to do with an effort to dig into the background of 12-year-old Graeme Frost.

Stewart says there was no effort by him or anyone else in McConnell’s office to slime the 12-year-old, as Democrats allege.

In fact, McConnell’s aide says he sent a follow up e-mail to reporters, telling them there was no story, defending the Frost family.