{"id":8981,"date":"2011-03-21T12:51:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8981"},"modified":"2011-03-21T12:51:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T16:51:34","slug":"missouri-gop-holding-%e2%80%98air-claire%e2%80%99-mccaskill%e2%80%99s-feet-to-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8981\/missouri-gop-holding-%e2%80%98air-claire%e2%80%99-mccaskill%e2%80%99s-feet-to-the-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri GOP Holding \u2018Air Claire\u2019 McCaskill\u2019s Feet to the Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget all the media salivating for the 2012 presidential campaign.\u00a0 The Missouri Republican Party is launching its first attack on Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill\u2019s liberal use of taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, the Missouri GOP printed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/documents\/2011\/03\/mo-gop-newspaper-ad.php?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">full-page ad<\/a> in the Springfield, MO <em>News Leader<\/em> demanding that McCaskill explain why she paid the U.S. Treasury $88,000 for flights on one of her husband\u2019s private jets.\u00a0 McCaskill continues to claim that only one of the flights was for a purely political reason (and thus ineligible for taxpayer reimbursement), yet <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/onpolitics\/post\/2011\/03\/sen-claire-mccaskill-planes-missouri-gop-complaint\/1\" target=\"_blank\">her check covers 89 trips<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since McCaskill\u2019s seat is seen as a great pickup opportunity for Republicans, don\u2019t expect the Missouri GOP to let the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/political-fix\/article_e1498ca4-5170-11e0-b407-0017a4a78c22.html\" target=\"_blank\">self-styled accountability watchdog<\/a> off the leash easy.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2012 campaign cycle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget all the media salivating for the 2012 presidential campaign.\u00a0 The Missouri Republican Party is launching its first attack on Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill\u2019s liberal use of taxpayer money. Over the weekend, the Missouri GOP printed a full-page ad in the Springfield, MO News Leader demanding that McCaskill explain why she paid the U.S. Treasury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[841,1920,2161,351,1561,949,2160,334,2502,1240,2503],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-elections","tag-accountability","tag-claire-mccaskill","tag-corruption","tag-democrat-party","tag-ethics","tag-missouri","tag-republican-party","tag-scandal","tag-taxpayer","tag-watchdog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8986,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions\/8986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}