MassGOP Chair Amy Carnevale said she filed a complaint with federal regulators after a conservative radio host and a former candidate for elected office made “concerning remarks” during two separate radio shows this week.

Carnevale said Jeff Kuhner, the host of WRKO 680’s “Kuhner Report,” made comments during a Friday broadcast that “exhibit gross offensiveness.” She said a conversation between Geoff Diehl and Kuhner during an earlier radio show covering payments between the MassGOP and the The Howie Carr Radio Network promoted “outright falsehoods.”

During his Friday show, Kuhner discussed an online article written by “Kool-Aid Kult Kronicles” that accused him of calling the wife of Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr a “whore,” an allegation Kuhner vehemently denied. The article did not provide any evidence nor did it cite a source.

During the show, as he slammed the online article as “full of lies,” Kuhner turned to a phrase he said was from the 1987 film Wall Street with actor Martin Sheen.

“And so Martin Sheen tells his son, ‘Listen, I’m not going to stand here and be self righteous and sanctimonious. I have sins, I have flaws. But son, I don’t go to bed with no whore. I don’t wake up with no whore.’ And so I use that line as I was attacking, if you want to know the truth, Amy Carnevale and her fellow band of RINOs. Why? Because they always sell out to the donor class,” he said at around the 13:40 minute mark of an archived version of the show. “And I’ll get to Amy Carnevale in a second. And so I said, ‘Hey, look, say what you want about Jeff Kuhner, I don’t go to bed with no whore. I don’t wake up with no whore.’”

Kuhner did not reply to a request for comment emailed Saturday afternoon to his work address.

Carnevale said referring to “prominent political figures, particularly women, as ‘whores’ not only fails to support communities but actively undermines them.”

“Such language is demeaning and can dissuade women from pursuing prominent roles within communities,” she said in a letter to Tom McConnell, a division president at iHeartMedia, the owner of WRKO 680. “Considering the serious nature of this situation, this letter is being sent in conjunction with a complaint to the (Federal Communications Commission).”

McConnell did not reply to a request for comment emailed Saturday afternoon to an iHeartMedia address listed in his name.

FULL TEXT of MassGOP letter