Posted on 03/14/2011 9:14:32 AM PDT by John Semmens
Insisting that “it was all a big misunderstanding,” Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) has agreed to reimburse the government for $88,000 in charges she racked up using chartered flight services from a company she jointly owns with her husband.
“As senators, if we accept services for free we could be perceived as obligated to do favors for our benefactors,” McCaskill explained. “To avoid this perception I charged the cost of my travel to my expense account.”
The Senator said she eschewed the option of flying on a commercial airline because “it’s so inconvenient. You have to stand in line. You get scanned or fondled. You’re restricted to one skinny seat and any yahoo can sit next to you. I didn’t feel that was a proper way for an important person like myself to travel.”
McCaskill added that another motivation was to “spread some business around to a smaller company. The fact that it was my own company was just a lucky break. I mean, the government should be helping small businesses. Is it so bad that the one helped in this instance was mine?”
McCaskill and her husband have a net worth of at least $15 million.
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http://azconserv1.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/wisconsin-legislation-irks-prez/
'D' = Institutionalized corruption.
Sounds like her own personal “stimulus” plan!
hahaha! as soon as i read the above, i looked at the source of the article... and sure enough... too funny...
"The Senator said she eschewed the option of flying on a commercial airline because 'it’s so inconvenient. You have to stand in line. You get scanned or fondled. You’re restricted to one skinny seat and any yahoo can sit next to you. I didn’t feel that was a proper way for an important person like myself to travel.'"
If so, the people of the state she represents needs to $hit can her so that she can go find another job.
Now someone needs to get Pelosi to pony up if stories are true about her abuse of airforce planes that she used to cart her and her entourage all over the place on the taxpayers’ dime.
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If she thought she might get fondled she would ride coach every time.
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