.@clairecmc’s definition of being “the hardest working Democrat in the Party.” Skipping out on her luxury RV to fly in her luxury jet. It must be good to be rich and liberal. #MOSen https://t.co/IvjlSx6VxN
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) June 12, 2018
In 2004, Claire McCaskill ran for governor of Republican-trending Missouri, attacking a sitting Democrat for the use of private jets. Eventually, she rode the 2006 blue wave against the Iraq War to victory in a top-tier Senate race. Still, to eke out a victory McCaskill (D-Mo.) ran as an old-time, populist Democrat. In reality, she’s much more liberal than she claims, and has served as Obama’s campaign chair in Missouri.
In 2011, McCaskill got in some hot water for billing the Treasury Department for her private plane usage (she’s coincidentally one of the wealthiest members of the Senate). She said she would “sell the damn plane” after a crafty opponent posted a spoof ad on Craigslist for her private jet – and investigators found out that she didn’t pay taxes on it. Fast forward to 2018, and the embattled Senator found herself in even more hot water for using her jet, that she couldn’t bear to sell, while supposedly on an RV tour of Missouri.
Her Trump-endorsed Republican opponent, Attorney General Josh Hawley has had fun with her hypocrisy, even as the media sweeps it under the rug.
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