“There are a number of people I could blame.” I believe she is thinking of a number equal to the population of her district. She and her husband are plain old hustlers.
“I have discovered that the...personal property taxes on the plane have not been paid,” McCaskill told a small number of reporters on a conference call Monday. “There should have been a reporting to the county of the existence of this airplane...There are people I could blame for this, but I know better. As (a former) auditor, I know I should have checked for myself. I take full responsibility for the mistake.”
Translation: “Damn, I got caught”