Sen. Claire McCaskill, a driving force for rooting out waste and fraud to protect American taxpayers, just tripped on Politics 101: Make darn sure you pay your own taxes correctly. She apologized this week for failing to pay several years of personal property taxes owed on a private plane.
Sen. McCaskill quote "... don't ever vote for me again."
ReplyDeleteEven NPR notices the problem with the Senator's private plane violations:
In the wake of reports that she charged taxpayers for a number of business flights she took on a charter aircraft she co-owns with her husband, and that she failed to pay property taxes on the plane, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has created a fairly devastating ad. (It has an accompanying web site: www.claireair.com)
Source: YouTube
At the end of the ad, which contains snippets of TV anchors talking about the controversy, there's video of the senator telling an audience:
"... (If) my walk doesn't match my talk, then shame on me and don't ever vote for me again."