Since she’s been in Washington, McCaskill has received millions from special interest groups, corporate lobbyists and rich executives.
These are just a few examples, of course. Maybe it has something to do with the lake house her husband and DeStefane jointly own via an LLC that they also jointly own? In addition, although McCaskill has refunded donations from other sources for far less, she has never refunded a dime from DeStefane. Despite taking on nursing home corruption and elder abuse a key tenet of McCaskill’s original Senate campaign, she appears to have done very little, if anything at all, in terms of legislation to prevent this or punish companies who conduct such abuse in a systematic manner for the sake of profit. The interesting part is that DeStefane’s nursing home company has been notoriously negligent, and had to settle a lawsuit with the federal government in 2017 which uncovered widespread Medicare fraud.Įssentially DeStefane’s company overcharged the taxpayers for treatment they either didn’t give or forcefully gave to patients who didn’t need it. For example, DeStefane donated $30,000 total to Chris Koster’s 2016 campaign for governor, quickly backtracking and sending checks to Greitens and other high-level Republicans after Koster lost. The starkest indication of the kind of politician McCaskill is, though, comes with an explanation of her relationship to nursing home owner Rick DeStefane, a longtime family friend and frequent donor to Republicans and Democrats alike-and to McCaskill in particular. She eventually refunded the Treasury after facing public pressure. The problem was that McCaskill admitted only one of these flights was for an explicitly political purpose, and even worse, that the company which the taxpayer money had gone to was owned by herself and her husband, Joseph Shepard. This isn’t out of the ordinary it often makes more sense to fly private if you have a whole campaign staff to transport. The first major evidence of systemic corruption in McCaskill’s office came in 2011 when it was discovered that she used taxpayer money to fund 89 trips on private jets. But the more I learn, the more disgusted I am with the political and economic establishment of this country, especially corrupt politicians like McCaskill. I’m not a Trump supporter nor was I ever, and I voted for McCaskill. To be clear, I use the term “swamp” in a mostly sarcastic sense. The answer may not surprise you, and it’s much the same reason we discovered last week for Beto O’Rourke’s sudden rise to the heights of mainstream media adoration: McCaskill, like O’Rourke, is a proud resident of the Swamp. So why hire her and not put her compensation towards hiring actual journalists? It’s not like she has anything particularly new to offer in terms of political analysis, being mostly in lockstep with “centrist,” pro-business dogma, and she clearly doesn’t have any popular support in Missouri even among her base. Which raises the question: How, at a time when thousands of hardworking journalists who make middle-to-working-class wages are being laid off and quality, unbiased journalism is increasingly elusive, could MSNBC possibly justify hiring Claire McCaskill? McCaskill’s record in general, then you were probably not so surprised to see MSNBC hire her as a political analyst after her reelection ended in defeat. If you were paying attention to that campaign and to Sen.
senators, representing the state for two terms before being unseated by Josh Hawley in 2018. If you don’t know, Claire McCaskill was one of Missouri’s two U.S.
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