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Regarding the [[Jeff Sessions]] affair, [[Wesley Pruden]] of ''The Washington Times'' wrote: | Regarding the [[Jeff Sessions]] affair, [[Wesley Pruden]] of ''The Washington Times'' wrote: | ||
| − | *Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, in demanding the attorney | + | *Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, in demanding the attorney general's head, said that as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee for 10 years she had never met the Russian ambassador. She couldn’t imagine that any worthy senator would. She forgot that in the digital age facts are hard to kill graveyard dead. Then she spent the afternoon trying to explain why she would have made such a categorical statement after several tweets about visits with the Russian ambassador (she said it was about American adoptions of Russian children) were discovered and published on the internet.<ref> [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/2/jeff-sessions-affair-shows-republicans-must-stick-/ On the eve of the insurrection]</ref> |
When [[Al Franken]] was caught in a sex scandal, she proceeded to return a $30,000 donation to her campaign that he made to her. | When [[Al Franken]] was caught in a sex scandal, she proceeded to return a $30,000 donation to her campaign that he made to her. | ||
Revision as of 02:07, October 22, 2018
| Claire McCaskill | |||
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| U.S. Senator from Missouri From: January 3, 2007 – Present | |||
| Predecessor | Jim Talent | ||
| Successor | Incumbent (no successor) | ||
| Information | |||
| Party | Democrat | ||
| Spouse(s) | David Exposito (div.) Joseph Shepard | ||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||
Claire McCaskill, born July 24, 1953 (age 73), is currently the junior United States Senator from the state of Missouri and a member of the Democratic Party. She defeated Republican Senator Jim Talent in 2006 with 50% of the vote.
A millionaire, McCaskill was criticized concerning the "Air Claire" scandal relating to how she tapped into her Senate budget to fund her private airplane.[1]
Her challenger in 2012 is movement conservative Todd Akin, and Democrats will have a difficult time reelecting her. The Democratic National Convention decided against holding it in Missouri, perhaps in part because of the political weakness of Claire McCaskill and her need to distance herself from the Obama Administration in order to have any chance of being reelected.
On September 6, 2006, she publicly stated that "George Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black," when addressing Hurricane Katrina victims.
McCaskill was the co-chair of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. She criticized John McCain's age, saying "Other people talk about his melanoma. We’re talking about a reality here that we have to face." [2] Claire McCaskill has voted with a majority of her Democratic colleagues 78.4% of the time during the current Congress.[3] She supported the 2009 Economic Stimulus Package.
Regarding the Jeff Sessions affair, Wesley Pruden of The Washington Times wrote:
- Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, in demanding the attorney general's head, said that as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee for 10 years she had never met the Russian ambassador. She couldn’t imagine that any worthy senator would. She forgot that in the digital age facts are hard to kill graveyard dead. Then she spent the afternoon trying to explain why she would have made such a categorical statement after several tweets about visits with the Russian ambassador (she said it was about American adoptions of Russian children) were discovered and published on the internet.[4]
When Al Franken was caught in a sex scandal, she proceeded to return a $30,000 donation to her campaign that he made to her.
Taking a page out of the DNC leaks and John Podesta playbook, when she was caught on tape admitting to lying and deceiving voters, she never denied the authenticity of her own words, but played the victim for being caught.