Posted on 10/18/2018 4:42:50 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri has demanded that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate a sting operation that exposed previously secret alleged ties to Planned Parenthood and various gun-control-advocacy groups.
McCaskill’s campaign manager David Kirby called on her Republican Senate challenger Josh Hawley, the sitting Missouri attorney general, to appoint a special prosecutor to launch an investigation into the video-surveillance operation that captured her staffers discussing tactics used to conceal Planned Parenthood’s financial support for their campaign.
“We have reason to believe that fraud has been committed against our campaign,” Kirby told reporters Wednesday. “There’s no question that the videos were captured under false pretenses and misrepresentations, which under Missouri law is fraud.”
McCaskill accused Hawley of participating in the sting operation during a Tuesday television appearance.
“It is startling that Josh Hawley would be part of fraudulently embedding somebody in my campaign,” McCaskill told KOLR-10 in Springfield, Missouri on Tuesday.
Hawley, who previously denied participating in the operation, dismissed the notion of a possible investigation in a response posted to Twitter Wednesday.
In the secretly captured surveillance video, released Wednesday by the controversial right-wing investigative group Project Veritas, McCaskill campaign staffer Nicholas Starost explained that Planned Parenthood secretly funnels donations to the senator to avoid the scrutiny of Missouri’s conservative electorate.
“They go through other means to get us that money,” Starost says while being recorded on a hidden camera. “They specifically will not donate to us.”
“It’s f**king beautiful. It’s great when it works for us and not against us, let’s be honest,” he adds.
“It’s not that they don’t support Claire, it’s because they know it’s a tough state to win for a Democrat,” explains another staffer.
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She would find it more profitable I think to spent time up-dating her Linkedin page
She’s gonna be lookin’ for work in an month
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
The sleaze of a Democrat knows no bounds.
A vile connection she is so proud of that she wants to keep it hidden.
Even if it were fraud it’s not criminal.
Hmmmm, but getting ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE under false pretenses and misrepresentations is perfectly alright?
'Just politics', I presume?
God, I hate these bastards...
She was okay with the stings that helped to bring down Geitner though.
Reminds me of Louisiana loser Landrieu....said she had to "talk down" to the home folks.
They were "too stupid" to understand why she said one thing to them then voted the opposite.
Now McCaskill wants her staff investigated......for telling the truth.
She’d be better off just laughing it off. So what.
false pretenses and misrepresentations, which under Missouri law is fraud.”
Isn’t that the basis and core of her campaign?? LOCK HER UP!!!
she’s a total fool to keep drawing attention to this in the media ... either that or she knows she’s toast and has thrown all caution to the wind ...
If this were a Rep being exposed for contributions from the NRA, he would win a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism!!!
I hope they didn’t break any laws in secretly recording people. Anybody familiar with the state’s laws concerning this?
Gee. An investigation into what? That a real live journalist is actually doing the work that real journalists should do? There is a reason why we have this thing called the First Amendment, Claire. There is also the fact the the Second Amendment was instituted to protect us from people like you.
Kinda like the bank robber who got mugged and called the cops to report the mugging.
“Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri has demanded that a special prosecutor be appointed ...”
Demand this Claire.
Democrats truly have no shame. None whatsoever.
Rush was pointing out today how stupid she is. The Media was doing a great job of ignoring this story and now she is forcing them to cover it.
Yep. What a dumbass.
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