Clair McCaskill, a busy Hillary surrogate outraged by charge

[cali]

that she's establishment. Not only is Clair establishment, she's corrupt.

Claire McCaskill's Husband's Firms Received Almost $40 Million In Federal Subsidies

Businesses affiliated with the husband of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill have received almost $40 million in federal subsidies for low-income housing developments during her first five years in office, but McCaskill's campaign said Tuesday that none of that money made it into the family's personal bank accounts.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/claire-mccaskill-husband_n_1951984.html

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2011/03/21/mccaskill-admits-failing-to-pay-almost-300k-in-taxes-on-plane/

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“All of us are laughing going like, ‘How did we become establishment?’” McCaskill said. “I’ve been fighting the establishment my whole life. It feels weird that they’re dismissing all of the senators that are supporting Hillary Clinton by kind of lumping us into some category that most of us find distressing and unfair.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-senate-democrats-218751#ixzz3zKFiMlHb

[arcane1]

1. If I'm not mistaken, she's also employed by a pro-Clinton Super-PAC.

So anything she says will be in that context: candidate-approved statements.

[TheBlackAdder]

54. George Bush Sr. (1992) attacked BILL CLINTON for being a SOCIALIST--McCaskill uses GOP tricks!

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A few weeks back, she was really pushing the SBS is a "socialist" argument, just like Bush Sr. did to Bill Clinton!


#irony


.

[LiberalArkie]

60. The voters were not afraid of the "socialist" label way back then. May have even helped Bill win.

[Ken Burch]

68. And they are clearly less afraid of it now.

If they weren't, Bernie would be losing to every GOP candidate by twenty points.

[PatrynXX]

73. oddly the actual Socialists really don't like Bernie

Bernie is hardly a socialists but he's taken the label because it helps him.

[m-lekktor]

75. They don't! Especially because he is running as a DEM. I read their opinions daily

elsewhere on the net!

[floriduck]

59. McCaskills worst decision was to

say nothing when the Jefferson, MO racial tensions began. I am no fan of that person. She is a classic "all about me" politician and her allegiance is only to what benefits her.

[DanTex]

2. What would be a good website where people dig dirt and do oppo research on Democrats?

DemocraticUnderground, huh? Kind of a strange name for it. I would have thought it was pro-Democratic.

[Live and Learn]

3. So you are okay with tax cheats and think we should keep this info underground? nt

[DanTex]

5. LOL. "Tax cheat." It's odd how much people here hate Democrats.

[Live and Learn]

9. WTF? Are you now implying that all Democrats are Tax Cheats?

I know Bernie pays his taxes and so do I. There are many good Democrats.

[DanTex]

11. heh. Just that a lot of people here hate Democrats to the point of falsely accusing them of

being tax cheats.

[Live and Learn]

13. She didn't pay her taxes. I call that a tax cheat. You call it a little 'mistake'.

A rose by any other name ...

[DanTex]

15. People refile taxes all the time. Mistakes are common, the tax code is complicated.

This is about hatred, not tax law.

[Live and Learn]

17. It's too hard? Another Hillary mantra. Funny, I don't find it that hard.

Why do you feel such hatred?

[DanTex]

20. You might have a simple tax return. Not everyone does, though. The whole story is silly.

She caught a mistake, and she payed her taxes. Sorry, I know how much you hate her and want to find something to smear her with, but refiling her taxes isn't it.

[Live and Learn]

23. A simple tax return? Of course, since I don't own an airpane,

I must just be one of the poor simple folk that can't understand how extremely complicated life is for the rich.

[DanTex]

27. OK, well, yeah, taxes can get complicated. And refiled. It happens.

[Live and Learn]

32. I am still available if you get tired of having to refile all the time. nt

[DanTex]

36. I'd rather go with competent people, but good luck with your career.

[Live and Learn]

39. Said the guy that has to refile his all the time.

[DanTex]

41. Who said anything about me refiling?

[Live and Learn]

44. You certainly implied that. In fact, you implied that almost everyone has to do it.

Are you now backtracking on your support of McCaskill?

It is getting really hard to keep up with your claims.

[DanTex]

49. Now you're reading my mind too. This is getting good.

Sorry, I'm not sharing my refiling or non-refiling status with you. Hope you're not offended.

[Live and Learn]

52. No offense taken. Not reading your mind simply reading your posts.

I really do need to get on to other posts now though since your are getting beyond ridiculous.

It's been fun but it is time to MoveOn.

[DanTex]

53. Always a good time. And keep filing those simple/complicated/mindreading tax forms!

[kath]

26. BTW, we don't hate Democrats. We hate the conservative assholes who have infiltrated the Party and

call themselves "Democrats".

[DanTex]

28. Like Barbara Boxer, huh? Right.

[Live and Learn]

30. The Boxer with family ties to Hilary? Could that bias her at all?

I love Boxer but she is wrong on this. I don't blame her for wanting to keep peace in her family but she really shouldn't do it at the expense of the good of the country.

[DanTex]

33. Sure, throw her under the bus. And read her mind while you're at it.

You've already shown that you like to take strong stances on issues that you are clueless about, why not add reading Barbara Boxer's mind to the list?

[Live and Learn]

37. Where did I claim to read her mind? That's right, I didn't. Stop making false claims.

If that is possible for you.

[DanTex]

40. When you attributed her stances to bias rather than honest belief.

Here's another tip. If you want to pretend you didn't say something, at least wait more than one post to do it.

[Live and Learn]

48. I didn't state she was, I asked if she could be. Another falshood on your part.

Keep them coming. I think you are on to a new record.

[DanTex]

50. Good one. I was just, umm, speculating, umm, hypothetically, you know? LOL.

[cali]

34. Like her just fine. Think her attack on Bernie is lame, but

Boxer has earned her cred.

[cali]

4. She is a tax cheat. And not just once. And she has used her

Position to enrich herself.

Blind loyalty is not a good thing.

[DanTex]

6. She's not a "tax cheat." She made an error, there's no story here except among people who have

a deep hatred of the Democratic party.

[Live and Learn]

10. A little 'mistake,' huh? Kind of like Hillary is always making?

The problem is, most of the population goes to jail for similar little 'mistakes'.

[DanTex]

12. People refile taxes all the time. Without going to jail. I guess you didn't know that.

[Live and Learn]

14. Do you? No, I wouldn't know. As I said, I pay mine. nt

[DanTex]

16. OK, well now you know. Refiling isn't a crime, nor is it uncommon, especially people

like McCaskill whose tax returns are presumably long and complicated. She pays her taxes also.

[Live and Learn]

21. Really? She forgot her airplane? Funny how easy it is to forget those airplanes you guys own.

Maybe you and McCaskill should hire a competent tax return specialist. I am available at much cheaper prices than Hillary charges for one speech.

[DanTex]

22. Not the airplane, just the tax treatment. I'm sure she has a competent accountant and tax lawyer.

That's why the error was caught and refiled. I can tell that you are seething with hatred, but this is simply not a big deal.

[Live and Learn]

25. Doesn't appear that they are that competent to me.

Nice that you know me so well that you know what I am seething.

[DanTex]

31. That's because you don't know what you are talking about. Like you said, you have no

experience with complicated tax returns. I have no idea why you have such strong opinions about something you are so clueless about.

[Live and Learn]

35. I never said that. Another false statement from you. I only said I don't own an airplane.

Clueless? You might want to check a mirror out.

[DanTex]

38. Sure you did. Your taxes are simple, so you figure everyone else's must be as well.

[Live and Learn]

42. Now you have seen my taxes? I never said my taxes were simple.

I just said it isn't really that hard to do taxes correctly. I am sorry you have such a difficult time with them but please don't take your lack of ability out on me.

[DanTex]

43. LOL. Well, you didn't say it in your last 2 posts, but the internet has a memory, you know?

Did someone else just jump behind the keyboard?

[Live and Learn]

46. So, the answer to my question regarding your being able to stop posting falsehoods is 'no'. nt

[DanTex]

51. Like I said, the internet has a memory. Who said this?

A simple tax return? Of course, since I don't own an airpane

[Live and Learn]

56. So now anyone that doesn't own an airplane has a simple return?

You are really too much.

[DanTex]

57. You're back! How I missed you. "A simple return? Of course".

Look, if you want to change your mind and now claim you have a complicated return, fine with me. In that case you understand that refilings aren't uncommon, and certainly not remotely the same as cheating taxes. So you've been playing dumb the whole time.

Hey, maybe you even own an airplane. Congrats!

[LittleBlue]

69. As a CPA, can I give you some advice about "little mistakes"?

People who make as much money as Claire McCaskill and her husband don't just make $300k mistakes. They have experts paid $500/hour who take care of their taxes. This was a basic error on property taxes that any first-year tax associate would have known.

If she didn't file the property tax, it's because she didn't want to pay and wagered that nobody would find out. Property taxes on multi-million dollar aircraft aren't something that those kinds of people just miss.

[DanTex]

81. If you're actually a CPA, there are things you know.

For example, people like Claire McCaskill don't intentionally evade taxes. Why? Because that would be stupid. It could mean prison time if caught, which nobody wealthy is willing to risk for a few dollars, and even if not, it means the end of her political career. Even if it's not proven to be intentional, it still means refiling, and possible fines, and for her, the political hit. She doesn't need 300K, to do this intentionally would just be stupid, and she's not that.

But I don't think you are a CPA, or at least a competent one, and this is because of your theory that she "wagered that nobody would find out." LOL. Please tell me that if you have clients making several million dollars a year, particularly if they are public figures, that you tell them they should expect their IRS filings to be scrutinized. If you aren't doing that, you should look for another line of work.

[TheBlackAdder]

63. Strange comment. It seems like some here at DU lack reflection into their own actions. nt

[PatrynXX]

74. DU hasn't been democratic since the Jury's were put in place with zero appeals n/t

[Punkingal]

7. Love the phony outrage from someone who will say ANYTHING.

[PeteSelman]

8. Wow, they're all so scared.

I wonder why. Is it because the little game they've been playing with the "other side" is about to end and the gravy train has made its last stop?

As was said in many a Loony Toon, "Yeeeeeaaaah, could be!"

[Kentonio]

18. Good to see she's found time in her busy schedule of smearing Bernie

To also fit in a little faux outrage.

[Jefferson23]

19. I wonder if their bubble has been so thick they imagined no one our side had ever

taken a closer look at them before Bernie's run.

I like sunlight, you see better and it brings a nice glow too.

Good luck, Claire.

[CharlotteVale]

24. I guess she forgot she's pro-TPP. If that isn't establishment what is.

She didn't even care that when she voted for fast track authority that it didn't include any worker protections.

She disgusts me.

[amborin]

29. sickening corruption

[RiverLover]

84. +1 /nt

[NCjack]

45. Next time she is desperate for a campaign donation to fend off a slimy

Rethug, I'll probably send (again) but will feel nasty, esp. because of the dump she did on Bernie.

[Vinca]

47. I thought Hillary's reason that she isn't part of the "establishment" amusing.

She said because she is a woman running for the presidency that means she isn't a part of the "establishment." Words games aside - "progressive," "establishment," etc. - I don't think gender has anything to do with it.

[juxtaposed]

55. McCaskill is a HRC tool, almost a blue dog D. I hope McCaskill has taken care of her drinking probl

em.

[Bluenorthwest]

58. “All of us are laughing going like, ‘How did we become establishment?’” McCaskill said

"All of us are laughing, going like 'By opposing marriage equality until the middle of 2013'" Bluenorthwest said.

[democrank]

61. I`m going to write down that McCaskill quote

so I can refer to it from time to time when I need a good laugh. Fighting the establishment her whole life? Right. And Donald Trump has a lot of Muslim friends.

[TIME TO PANIC]

62. Clair McCarthy, I mean McCaskill, the red baiting tax cheat.

[AzDar]

64. Ah, yes... Senator Love-Pats.

[SmittynMo]

65. She's one of the first

that have to go, once the revolution has started. Congress: Beware, you're about to be replaced with people that care about people.

[blackspade]

66. Oh boo hoo.

Can't enjoy the largess when people point it out I guess.
Maybe she has a guilty conscious....

[Spitfire of ATJ]

67. "‘How did we become establishment?’"

Here's a clue:

[MatthewStLouis]

70. Honestly, I don't know if anyone here remembers McCaskill's opposition last time around...

he was the, if a women is legitimately raped she can "shut that whole thing down" SOB, Todd Akin. Believe me, we here in Missouri are very very happy to have Claire McCaskill! Some democrats have warts, no need to work overtime trashing them! At the least, a democrat like Claire will protect every women's reproductive rights, unlike the Christian jihadists they have to run against here in Missour-uh.

[MisterP]

72. the McCaskills of our party are the #1 enabler of the Akins of theirs

[MatthewStLouis]

78. Yes, it's a marriage of convience...

it's gonna take alot to win over the good ole boys I grew up with. Redneck anti-communist, anti-intellectuals.... (sigh)

[PatrynXX]

71. establishment though seems useless to me

Brains gloss over when that word is said. like a kinder word than Conservadem. nah we need to purge the Conservadems out of the party not make up silly words for it.

[Stand and Fight]

76. I cannot stand Claire McCaskill for the life of me.

She went Republican-lite shortly after being elected. I find her disposition repulsive most of the time and the things she's said about Senator Sanders makes her all the more disgusting.

[moondust]

77. Backed Bob McCullough on Michael Brown case.

Senator Claire McCaskill (D) tells MSNBC she has known McCulloch for 30 years and has prosecuted alongside of him.

~

“I believe that Bob McCulloch will be fair,” says McCaskill.

~

http://www.missourinet.com/2014/08/20/sen-mccaskill-defends-st-louis-co-prosecutor-says-he-will-be-fair-on-michael-brown-case/

That's not at all like being part of the establishment, is it?

[ImaPolitico]

79. So, any politician who...

supports Hillary Clinton is a target for the far left Dem group.

I think I'm on a Fox News web site with comments such as these.

BTW, is their a Hillary site here on Dem Underground? Have not posted here very often and not in the know.

Thanks.

[cali]

83. Nope. Love Pat Leahy. He backs her

Like Boxer and Brown and many others.

[TBF]

80. Another "victim". Net worth for this one -

McCaskill's deep pockets stand out even in the millionaire's club that is the U.S. Senate. The Center for Responsive Politics ranks McCaskill as the 12th-richest of 100 senators, with a net worth between $15.6 million and $27.5 million. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/claire-mccaskill-s-wealth-comes-into-focus/article_0e8be6a2-99ad-59c0-9240-54767ef29f5a.html

Hillary is worth more of course, which is why McCaskill admires her.

[cui bono]

82. Poor little lying red baiter.

I'll weep for her.



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