McCaskill's Week From Hell Continues

Claire McCaskill's week from hell continues. A day after she was caught on tape admitting to illegally using public employees for her GOTV operation this November, she's now caught with another big problem. Here's what the AP is reporting:
Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill claims that as a member of the state Legislature, she voted to override a 1990 budget veto of an ethanol incentive fund. But McCaskill never actually cast that vote. She wasn't even a legislator in 1990. McCaskill's campaign acknowledged Wednesday that it "made a minor clerical error" when compiling a fact sheet to back up its recent radio ads highlighting energy issues.
Why should we believe McCaskill's campaign when they say it's just a simple clerical error? This is the woman that tried inciting racial hatred towards her opponent by accusing President Bush of being a racist and who said that the Kansas City and St. Louis mayors had "donated 150 employees to work on the election on Election Day."

That's just in the past week.

She has a history of ethical problems prior to this, too:
  • The federal Office of Special Counsel is probing charges that Jackson County law enforcement employees were improperly directed by the sheriff, a McCaskill political ally, to appear in McCaskill campaign ads in uniform, on public time during her failed 2004 campaign for governor.
  • McCaskill also has come under fire by faxing campaign materials to state offices during state time in her current campaign.
In other words, this woman is a walking, breathing ethical disaster. She might stand a chance at winning in New Orleans or possibly in New Jersey. Unfortunately for her, she lives in Missouri. This type of behavior won't fly there.

I said yesterday that experts would soon take the Talent-McCaskill race out of the toss-up category. I'm revising that today to say that they'll soon have to put this into the solidly Republican category.

Get out the margarine for Mrs. McCaskill because she's toast.



Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:45 AM

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