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GOP Files Ethics Complaint on McCaskill

They want investigation into use of tax money for flight

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 15, 2011 2:45 PM CDT

(Newser) – Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is the target of a GOP-filed ethics complaint over her personal plane, Politico reports. McCaskill has acknowledged that she mistakenly used taxpayer money to cover the cost of one purely political trip last year, and she reimbursed the Treasury Department for it last week. Today, Missouri Republicans asked the Senate Ethics Committee to open an investigation.

“Sen. McCaskill was beyond embarrassed and acknowledged the mistake right away," said a spokesperson in response to the GOP action. "If the situation had not already been fixed, we would fix it again." The state's party chief said McCaskill should know better: “The rule is pretty clear," he said. "There is a way you can use a private aircraft."

In this April 27, 2010, file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.
In this April 27, 2010, file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.   (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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junpmd
Mar 16, 2011 3:09 PM CDT
How dumb are these corrupt,tax cheating,incompetent,bribing, getting kickbacks from their porks,lobbyists and special interests and then conveniently state that they mistakenly used taxpayer money. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE, DO WE HAVE CHILDREN CAREER POLITICIANS WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. These liberal democrats are pathological liars and always play the class warfare when they are already multimillionaires and don't even pay their own income taxes if audited. Why can't these robbers,corrupt,incompetent,arrogant,elite thieves, Congressman and Senators of the D.C. crime families not be arrested and tried for corruption,treason,robbery ,bribery,stealing the taxpayers money. They should be waterboarded at GITMO. They are the worst of the worst of the American society. How can we trust our own Congress and Obama when they are all connected to organized crime, corrupt unions, ACORN,Black panthers,islamic sympathetic. If found guilty of these treasonous acts they should be executed by a US military firing squad. They have no regard for the will of the ordinary,jobless Americans who are suffering with no houses,no jobs,no health insurance,no cars,high poverty rate, continued massive spending by Obama and Congress resulting in a debt of $14 trillion which will irreversibly destroy the US but they are now so arrogant,abusive of power, above the law, tyrannical, stupid elites, multimillionaires that they don't care what happens to the ordinary hardworking regular Americans and our homeland. I can't understand why the US Military is so passive when it is well known by now the clear, present , dangerous, domestic threat from Obama and our own Congress. The US Military has to takeover RIGHT NOW peacefully,orderly and in a bloodless manner the incompetent ,corrupt ,anti-America Obama Administration and Congress temporarily to restore the patriotic,honest,loyal,most disciplined,trusted America we knew before it is too late.There should be many patriotic,intelligent Westpointers who have seen the pattern of corruption and destruction of our homeland and American citizens and take the initiative with the full support of the American citizens and the whole US Military.
Kant
Mar 15, 2011 10:27 PM CDT
GOP seems to be grasping at straws here. Mistake already admitted. Money paid back. Forgive, never forget, move on.
brawne
Mar 15, 2011 10:01 PM CDT
Please. Stop. I can't stand it. Know how much money we waste on investigations like this? I think both parties suck but democrats went along with the whole Iraq thing even when they didn't like it. I'm beginning to think that republicans are all insane. And I mean really insane. The total inability to never be wrong, never make a mistake is just nuts. Seriously, you conservative people are destroying the country and you think you are right. No one is right--it's a fucking REPUBLIC. Was Cicero right or wrong? Who gives a shit. He fucked up. Know why the Japanese aren't looting or behaving like general assholes like we would? Cause they are all Japanese first--not liberals or conservatives. I keep watching them and thinking how shitty we would be in their place. Guns--guns everywhere and me, mine, my God loves me and yours sucks. We'd be eating our children by now. Really--five days and no electricity--kiss your ass good bye.

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