Claire McCaskill says she's voting 'no' on Brett Kavanaugh

[brooklynite]

Source: Springfield News-Leader

Sen. Claire McCaskill said Wednesday she will vote against federal appellate judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Citing "dark money" in politics as the main reason for her opposition, McCaskill released a lengthy statement through her office Wednesday evening. The Missouri Democrat, who is in a heated re-election campaign, stumped in southwest Missouri earlier in the day with stops in Lebanon and Mt. Vernon.

At the Lebanon event, she minimized the importance of the sexual assault allegations leveled against Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor who has claimed Kavanaugh held her down and tried to take off her clothes more than 30 years ago, when he was 17 and she was 15.

McCaskill called the allegations "disturbing" but said she would "set them aside" when deciding how to vote on Kavanaugh.

Read more: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/09/19/claire-mccaskill-says-shes-voting-no-brett-kavanaugh-president-trumps-supreme-court-nominee/1363181002/

[Colombo123]

1. Thanks 🙏

Madam

[trueblue2007]

2. good for Sen McCSKILL. What her butt from Maine should be ashamed of herself.

[question everything]

3. Good. I do hope that others in red states carried by Trump will follow their

conscience. The worst will be if they try to appease the RWers in their state and still lose.

[ConstanceCee]

4. Good For Her

I'm going to call her office to thank her. She did the right thing.

[DeminPennswoods]

5. Goes to show how toxic Kavanaugh is

right now.

[lagomorph777]

6. Smart move. Appeasing the Trumpies, even in a red state, is foolish.

Kavanaugh will help to abolish the Democratic Party. No Democrat in her right mind would ever allow that pig to sit on SCROTUS.

[suffragette]

7. McCaskill taking this stance is important. There are multiple reasons to vote against Kavanaugh

and the growing use of dark money is an important issue.

In fact, an immense amount of dark money has even been spent to first promote and now defend Kavanaugh.

[mpcamb]

8. Dark money paid off his debts. How do you make $200K a year and be insolvent?

Everyone talks about "character", but it's clear that this guy has a toxic gambling addiction.

[suffragette]

9. Right. That, too!