Posted on 11/28/2017 7:47:52 PM PST by Kaslin
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is not exactly the most frugal member of Congress when it comes to transportation. She spent about $21,000 in just three months using her private plane during her re-election campaign, the Washington Free Beacon reported last month.
While she supposedly convinced her husband to sell that now infamous plane, they then bought an even more expensive one. Its record of logged miles are hidden from the public, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The company hired by McCaskill to operate the plane, a 2009 Pilatus PC-12/47E, wrote to the FAA earlier this year in April to ask that tracking information on the plane be blocked from the public, according to email records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon through a Freedom of Information Act request.
McCaskill’s campaign spokeswoman Meira Bernstein said the request to hide the plane records was made by Aero Charter, not her boss.
"The plane is regularly chartered out to other users, and my understanding is that Aero Charter made this decision to protect the privacy and security of users," Bernstein said. "Claire has been completely transparent about her use of the plane and no taxpayer or campaign dollars are ever used for the plane."
Voters take these things seriously. When it was revealed how HHS Secretary Tom Price took advantage of his position to leave taxpayers with thousands of dollars in airfare, the backlash was so fierce he was quickly pressured to resign.
He took non-commercial flights that amounted to tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars.
It is suspicious that she uses her own private money for her private trips.
The average modern sedan has a gas tank of maybe 13 gallons.
A SINGLE HOUR of flight and you can almost fill up 5 sedans.
I wonder what it burns for an aggressive climb.
I’m betting she’s a champion of Climate Change...
Blocking tracking of a/c used by public figures isn’t uncommon or nefarious, just good security. Even charters.
She hid her income from the IRS too so why would this surprise anyone?
Burns enough to go to South America and back.
South America and back.... Is that right?
- Yeah.
I always kid him. I say: "You doing some stunt flying up there or something?"
Maybe the good Senator needs to have someone check out that Fetzer valve.
“Dayum..!! THAT is a really expen$ive plane:”
That’s exactly what went through my mind. That ain’t no Cesna.
If she is paying for it I don’t really care.
When Pelosi was Speaker she was using U.S. aircraft to weekend in CA and sticking the taxpayers with the bill.
I believe that is the wrong plane in your photo. The link in the excerpt above takes us to a modest even dull looking 2009 version of McCaskills plane.
63 out of 402 gallons gets you 328 miles. Great economy.
You can’t hide your income from the IRS.
A Pilatus plane? The media are washing their hands of this sordid story.
Okay, I didn’t recall the details of the story.
https://www.politico.com/story/2011/03/mccaskill-to-pay-back-taxes-on-plane-051675
The first thing that came to my mind was child trafficking. I would think all flights, big or small, would be subject to public access. It may be nothing, but with all the pedo stuff out there and hiding who is using her airplane, raised some red flags with me.
She does look like a Cruella in that picture.
CGato
She is suppose to be a ‘moderate’ but I never see her vote with the GOP!
Get her some 3-in-1 oil, gauze pads, Prestone, and ball bearings
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