Students accused of sexual assault on college campuses deserve due process, St. Louis County NAACP President John Gaskin III recently advocated.
Gaskin was praising a bill in the Missouri State House that would provide due process protections for students accused of sexual assault, including the right to an attorney (at their expense) and the ability to cross-examine their accuser and the evidence and witnesses against them. The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/a528afb8668147dd9ee686637e919935">reported</a> the bill would also allow students to remove university officials overseeing procedures for a conflict of interest and keep schools from using terms like &#8220;victim&#8221; or &#8220;survivor&#8221; before any investigation has even taken place. Such words promote the presumption of guilt, supporters of the bill say.
&#8220;The denial of due process at Missouri&#8217;s colleges disproportionately impacts African American men,&#8221; Gaskin said, &#8220;And that&#8217;s why we call for immediate due process reforms.&#8221;
African-Americans are at a particular disadvantage in campus kangaroo courts. Multiple reports and scholars have noticed the high frequency that they are accused (especially by white women) and are often unable to afford the necessary legal action needed to save their reputation.
The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/proposed-missouri-legislative-reform-emphasizes-due-process-for-accused-in-title-ix-cases/">reported</a> the bill, HB-573, would allow the state&#8217;s attorney general &#8220;to fine schools found to have violated due process rights.&#8221; The legislation would also make it legal to punish those who publish false statements about a person&#8217;s guilt in sexual misconduct matters.
In 2015, Harvard Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/argument-sexual-assault-race-harvard-law-school">wrote in The New Yorker</a> that, in her experience, the majority of sexual assault accusations at Harvard are against minority students. Her colleague, professor Janet Halley, also wrote that year in the Harvard Law Review that &#8220;Case after Harvard case that has come to my attention, including several in which I have played some advocacy or adjudication role, has involved black male respondents.&#8221;
Emily Yoffe, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-question-of-race-in-campus-sexual-assault-cases/539361/">writing in The Atlantic</a>, spoke to another &#8220;Ivy League law professor&#8221; who agreed that race seems to play a role in accusations. Yoffe herself says that in all the cases of campus sexual assault she has tracked, black men are &#8220;vastly overrepresented.&#8221;
Years ago I, too, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/harvard-law-professor-most-sex-assault-accusations-are-against-minorities">detailed the astonishing number</a> of minority and foreign students who are accused. A black football player at Florida State University. A Chinese citizen at Vassar College. A Syrian student at Pennsylvania State University. An Australian at Duke University. A German at Columbia University. A black man at Harvard University. An Afghanistan man at Yale University. Two black men at the University of Findlay.
The list goes on and on and on.
Gaskin recognizes who is most disadvantaged by unfair school disciplinary processes that insist every accusation is true and don&#8217;t provide the accused a fair chance to defend themselves. Opponents of the bill, naturally, say it will prevent accusers from reporting. Society will have many problems if due process continues to be seen as an impediment to justice and removed so that only an accuser&#8217;s word is necessary to destroy someone&#8217;s life.
Missouri is one of the few states in the country that is currently recognizing that even college students deserve due process.

St. Louis NAACP Backs State Bill Providing Due Process To College Students

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Update 2:22 pm ET: The Montana Senate election has been called for Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat who voted against Kavanaugh.
As of Wednesday morning, every incumbent Democrat senator in a competitive race who voted against Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court has lost.
The senate race in Montana is still too close to call, but it looks like Republican Matt Rosendale will eke out a victory. Incumbent Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat, voted against Kavanaugh in October after the judge was accused without evidence of teenage sexual misconduct.
In Indiana, Republican Mike Braun defeated incumbent Democrat Sen. Joe Donnelly. Donnelly had voted yes on President Donald Trump&#8217;s first Supreme Court nomination, Neil Gorsuch, but said he would vote &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/36458/breaking-swing-vote-sen-donnelly-no-kavanaugh-mid-paul-bois">no</a>&#8221; on Kavanaugh.
&#8220;I have deep reservations about Judge Kavanaugh&#8217;s nomination to this lifetime position and, as I stated, we have been unable to get all the information necessary regarding this nomination, despite my best efforts,&#8221; Donnelly said at the time. &#8220;Only 113 people have ever served on the Supreme Court, and I believe that we must do our level best to protect its sanctity.&#8221;
Donnelly also said the allegations against Kavanaugh were &#8220;disturbing and credible&#8221; and he wanted the FBI to investigate. The FBI did investigate and found no evidence to support the allegedly credible allegations.
This pattern also occurred with Democrat Sen. Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota. She voted for Gorsuch but against Kavanaugh despite a majority of voters in her state wanting Kavanaugh confirmed. Heitkamp announced she would vote &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/36776/dem-senator-heitkamp-explains-her-no-vote-frank-camp">no</a>&#8221; on Kavanaugh after watching his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the accusations against him with the sound off.
&#8220;In addition to the concerns about his past conduct, last Thursday&#8217;s hearing called into question for me Judge Kavanaugh&#8217;s current temperament, his honesty, and his impartiality. These are critical traits of any nominee to serve on the highest court in our country,&#8221; Heitkamp said in a statement at the time. &#8220;Dr. Ford gave a heartfelt, credible, and persuasive testimony. It took a great deal of courage, and it also came at great personal cost to her. &#8230; Our actions right now are an important signal to young girls and women across the country &#8230; &#8221;
Kavanaugh was not Heitkamp&#8217;s only problem, of course. In her zeal to appear sympathetic to victims of sexual assault, her campaign published an ad claiming to be a letter written by survivors. The only problem was the campaign <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37188/democrat-senator-apologizes-outing-sexual-assault-ashe-schow">didn&#8217;t seek permission</a> from these women to name them and use their locations. Heitkamp was already down in the polls for her vote on Kavanaugh, but this blunder sealed her fate.
Republican Kevin Cramer defeated Heitkamp Tuesday night in North Dakota.
In Missouri, Sen. Claire McCaskill, the Democrat incumbent, voted against Kavanaugh. She, too, lost to her Republican challenger, Josh Hawley. It also appears Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida will be defeated by Republican Gov. Rick Scott. Nelson also voted against Kavanaugh.
Every Democrat in a Red or Red-ish state who voted against Kavanaugh has either lost or looks likely to lose. By contrast, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) voted for Kavanaugh and won re-election despite running in a state that Trump carried in 2016.
There is one outlier to all of this: In Nevada, Democrat Jacky Rosen defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Dean Heller, who voted for Kavanaugh. Nevada is not a Red State, however.

KAVANAUGH EFFECT: Democrats Who Voted Against Him Lose Competitive Races

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Claire McCaskill

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Florida

Heidi Heitkamp

Indiana

Joe Manchin

There may be ten Senate seats being discussed heavily by the media as potential pickups by one political party or the other, but I seriously doubt that Tennessee, Texas, or West Virginia are actually in play. Left-wing media outlets may believe Beto O&#8217;Rourke could take out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), but that appears to be a pipe dream.
But there are seven Senate seats that could flip on Tuesday. I&#8217;m not telling anyone to get their hopes up, but these are the races to really watch.
Arizona
This is Democrats&#8217; best chance to pick up a Senate seat, even though Arizona is a reliably red state. Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ) is tied in the polls with Democrat Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. The two are running for the open Senate seat vacated by Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who is retiring.
Arizona typically votes for center-right senators, so McSally has the upper hand for sure, and polls can&#8217;t always be trusted.
Still, Republicans can&#8217;t count Sinema out.
Florida
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) has a slim, statistically insignificant lead in the Sunshine State against Republican Gov. Rick Scott. At first, this race looked like a real pickup potential for Republicans, but now it&#8217;s not so clear.
Florida voters are also voting for a new governor and the race has gained national attention since Democrat Andrew Gillum, Tallahassee Mayor and Sen. Bernie Sanders acolyte, appeals to left-wing media.
Florida is a swing state, so it could vote Democrat, even though it&#8217;s hard to imagine my former home state electing such a far-Left candidate for governor. Still, the Senate and the gubernatorial election will feed off of each other.
Indiana
Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) is another Democrat who voted for Gorsuch but against Kavanaugh, despite voters in his state wanting Kavanaugh confirmed. He&#8217;s running in a state won by Trump and is tied in most polls, so he could be in real trouble.
Donnelly is the only Democrat in Indiana to hold a statewide office, and has aligned himself with Trump on occasion, including the possibility of changing birthright citizenship rules.
Missouri
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is locked in a tight race against Republican Attorney General Josh Hawley. Polls either show them in a tie or with Hawley up slightly.
McCaskill has also tried to pretend she&#8217;s more aligned with Trump as she&#8217;s struggled in her re-election campaign, even running a political ad that claimed she wasn&#8217;t one of those &#8220;crazy Democrats.&#8221;
But her record shows completely the opposite. McCaskill is so left-wing she has been at the forefront of the fight against due process on college campuses. She subscribes to the &#8220;believe all women&#8221; movement no matter how absurd an accusation may be.
Montana
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) has a small but steady lead in a state Trump won in 2016. Trump has been hammering Tester for months and will be visiting the state to campaign on behalf of Republican Matt Rosendale.
Trump is popular in Montana, but Tester has a high name recognition and is an incumbent, so he could still win.
Nevada
Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) at first looked like he was going to lose for sure, but he now has a slight lead in the polls. Early voting in the state, so far, puts Democrats ahead, but that, like exit polls, doesn&#8217;t really matter, as nothing is set in stone until after the election.
Heller has remained close to Trump, even though Hillary Clinton won the state in 2016.
North Dakota
This is the Republicans&#8217; best chance to pick up a Senate seat. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/senate/nd/north_dakota_senate_cramer_vs_heitkamp-6485.html">has been trailing in the polls</a> by a wide margin for weeks, and though she voted for President Donald Trump&#8217;s first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, she voted against Brett Kavanaugh, even though voters in her state <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-north-dakota/in-north-dakota-kavanaugh-debate-tests-democratic-wave-and-metoo-idUSKCN1MD11A">wanted Kavanaugh confirmed</a>.
Heitkamp also did significant damage to herself when her campaign printed a large ad that outed the names and locations of women alleged to have been victims of sexual abuse. Some of the women said they <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37188/democrat-senator-apologizes-outing-sexual-assault-ashe-schow">never gave permission for their names to be printed</a>, and one even said she was not a victim.
If every one of these seats does flip, the final makeup of the Senate would be 54 Republicans and 46 Democrats, a net gain of three seats for the Republicans.

These 7 Senate Seats Are The Most Likely To Flip

Arizona

Bill Nelson

Hillary Clinton

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is struggling in her re-election bid, and is now lashing out at members of her own party in a show of desperation.
McCaskill made headlines last week when her campaign released an ad claiming she&#8217;s not &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37539/claire-mccaskill-makes-desperate-closing-argument-emily-zanotti">one of those crazy Democrats</a>,&#8221; without mentioning those Democrats by name. On Monday, McCaskill was pressed by Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier to name some of those &#8220;crazy Democrats.&#8221; McCaskill at first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37765/claire-mccaskill-names-her-crazy-democrats-bernie-emily-zanotti">offered only descriptions of the crazies</a>, including those who scream at Republicans in restaurants and &#8220;a state senator here in Missouri that actually advocated for the assassination of President Trump.&#8221; When pressed further, McCaskill mentioned Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (S-VT), but did not name the Missouri state senator.
That state senator is Maria Chappelle-Nadal, who in 2017 said she hoped President Donald &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19888/missouri-democrat-i-hope-trump-assassinated-aaron-bandler">Trump is assassinated</a>!&#8221; She followed that up a couple months later by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/22240/missouri-lawmaker-who-called-trumps-assassination-ryan-saavedra">comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler</a>.
But Chappelle-Nadal did not take too kindly to McCaskill calling her a &#8220;crazy Democrat.&#8221;
Earlier this week, the state senator called McCaskill &#8220;a piece of s***,&#8221; and &#8220;Dixie Claire,&#8221; and compared her to a slave owner.
&#8220;Claire McCaskill is desperate. She&#8217;s a piece of s***,&#8221; one of Chappelle-Nadal&#8217;s tweets read. &#8220;Instead of knowing why people of color are angered by this administration, she chooses to put us &amp; our families in harm&#8217;s way. If my family is harmed, blame it on Claire McCaskill. She deserves to lose. She is not a Democrat.&#8221;
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Claire McCaskill is desperate. She&#8217;s a piece of shit. Instead of knowing why people of color are angered by this administration, she chooses to put us &amp; our families in harm&#8217;s way. If my family is harmed, blame it on Claire McCaskill. She deserves to lose. She is not a Democrat. <a href="https://t.co/0x1KbwYHgg">https://t.co/0x1KbwYHgg</a>
&#8212; MariaChappelleNadal (@MariaChappelleN) <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaChappelleN/status/1057080406183460866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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She followed this tweet up by claiming McCaskill &#8220;and her racist democratic friends continue to alienate the base.&#8221;
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Claire McCaskill and her racist democratic friends continue to alienate the base. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BubByeClaire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BubByeClaire</a>. <a href="https://t.co/c24aQVnyNA">https://t.co/c24aQVnyNA</a>
&#8212; MariaChappelleNadal (@MariaChappelleN) <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaChappelleN/status/1057155218067111936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In another tweet, Chappelle-Nadal claimed her family was in danger because of &#8220;Dixie Claire.&#8221;
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White Supremacy would place a person of color in physical danger. That&#8217;s what Claire McCaskill has done to my family. Shame on you, Dixie Claire.
There are no more plantations. You are not Madam Massa. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MoSen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MoSen</a>
&#8212; MariaChappelleNadal (@MariaChappelleN) <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaChappelleN/status/1057253939266142209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Between these tweets, Chappelle-Nadal retweeted those who agreed with her, and quote-tweeted those who responded with racism.
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Look, Claire McCaskill. Your friends from Dixie are showing their true colors. Tell them to stop. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MoSen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MoSen</a> <a href="https://t.co/Kzcg5LXWkr">https://t.co/Kzcg5LXWkr</a>
&#8212; MariaChappelleNadal (@MariaChappelleN) <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaChappelleN/status/1057287632986824705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In a tweet sent Tuesday night, Chappelle-Nadal called McCaskill one of &#8220;our enemies&#8221; and said she would pray for her.
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I&#8217;ve decided to pray for Claire McCaskill because our enemies need God&#8217;s love too. &#8220;No weapons formed against us shall prosper.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MoSen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MoSen</a>
&#8212; MariaChappelleNadal (@MariaChappelleN) <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaChappelleN/status/1057365340835983361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Chappelle-Nadal also retweeted The Daily Caller and its reporter Peter Hasson, <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/31/claire-mccaskill-maria-chappelle-nadal-crazy-dems/">who first wrote about the feud with McCaskill</a>.
&#8220;Missouri&#8217;s term limits for state legislators prevent Chappelle-Nadal from running for re-election as a state senator, so she is running for the state&#8217;s House of Representatives,&#8221; Hasson wrote. &#8220;She won her primary in August and is running unopposed in the general election.&#8221;

‘She’s A Piece Of S***’: Claire McCaskill And Missouri Democrat Trade Insults

Racism

According to police in Springfield, Missouri, a 72-year-old man allegedly repeatedly raped <a href="https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2018/10/12/disabled-woman-raped-springfield-bus-stop-police-say/1617618002/">an intellectually disabled woman</a> whose mental capacity is that of an eight-year-old child.
Patricio Romero-Enriquez, who was charged by prosecutors with three counts of rape, allegedly told police that he indeed had sex with the woman but insisted it was a consensual act and that the woman was a neighbor of his. He said they had known each other for roughly three years and when they communicated they had to use hand signals.
Breitbart News <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/18/illegal-alien-accused-of-raping-72-year-old-handicapped-woman-at-bus-stop/amp/?__twitter_impression=true'">reported</a>, &#8220;An official with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency confirmed to Breitbart News that ICE has placed a hold on the illegal alien so that should he be released from prison at any time, he will be turned over to federal immigration officials for prosecution.&#8221;
The alleged actions took place on a bus stop bench; the woman told police. She had informed a bus driver in early October about the alleged assaults. Speaking to police, the woman referred to Romero-Enriquez as &#8220;The Mexican,&#8221; and said he had forced her into sex. She reportedly added, &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t understand when I shake my head.&#8221;
Because she is intellectually disabled, police interviewed the woman at the Child Advocacy Center, where she told them that she had been raped three times. According to documents, two of the alleged rapes occurred between November 2017 and April 2018; the third occurred later.
Romero-Enriquez is currently being held in the Greene County Jail on a $200,000 bond.
In March 2017, the <a href="https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2017/03/19/fact-check-springfield-11th-most-dangerous-city-country/98953036/">Springfield News-Leader</a> reported that the website <a href="http://247wallst.com/special-report/2016/09/27/25-most-dangerous-cities-in-america/4/">24/7 Wall Street</a>, basing its decision on the FBI&#8217;s 2015 Uniform Crime Reporting (<a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015">UCR</a>) program, stated Springfield was one of the 25 most dangerous cities in America. But the website&#8217;s report seemingly ignored a <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2015-crime-statistics">disclaimer</a> from the FBI that advised people not to rank cities based strictly on the data. Bridget Patton, spokeswoman for the FBI in Kansas City, said not every city in the country was included.
But the News-Leader added, &#8220;Even going by that standard, however, the numbers had been trending in an undesirable direction for Springfield before a slight downturn last year. Reports of violent crime in the city more than doubled between 2008 and 2015 before a minimal (0.5 percent) decrease in 2016.&#8221;
Springfield&#8217;s rate of violent crime reports increased noticeably between 2011 and 2015, from 813 per 100,000 to 1,356 per 100,000. The News-Leader reported, &#8220;But the No. 1 driver of violent crime in the city is domestic violence. Of the 2,262 violent crime reports in Springfield in 2015, about 67 percent were aggravated assaults. Police say more than half of those aggravated assaults were domestic assaults.&#8221;
Brandi Bartel, executive director of the <a href="https://www.thevictimcenter.org/">Victim Center</a>, which offers services to victims of violent or sexual crimes in the Springfield area, said in 2017 that the number of people served by the center had jumped 10% for three years in a row. She added that in 2016, the Victim Center served over 3,800 people.

72-Year-Old Man Charged With Raping Intellectually Disabled Woman. ICE Reveals His Immigration Status.

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Joseph Shepard, husband of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), has apparently gotten really lucky with his investments since his wife became a senator, <a href="http://amp.kansascity.com/latest-news/article215234680.html?__twitter_impression=true">according to an analysis by The Kansas City Star</a>.
Prior to McCaskill&#8217;s election in 2006, Shepard&#8217;s personal income from investments in housing projects that receive government subsidies ranged from $1,608 to $16,731, according to the Missouri Democrat&#8217;s financial disclosures. Five years after she became a senator, her husband&#8217;s investment earnings increased exponentially to between $365,374 and $1,118,158. As noted by the City Star, financial disclosure forms &#8220;only provide ranges of income.&#8221;
Still, that&#8217;s a huge jump. The City Star reports, however, that it really does appear that Shepard was incredibly lucky in his investments.
&#8220;The senator does not sit on committees that oversee the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development or the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agencies that award affordable housing contracts and loans to developers and pay out the subsidies,&#8221; the outlet reported. &#8220;She has voted for some massive government spending bills that would have benefited affordable housing programs, but she also voted against others.&#8221;
When asked why her husband&#8217;s investment income increased so dramatically after she assumed office, McCaskill&#8217;s campaign told the City Star that the senator has nothing to do with it.
&#8220;Her only concern when doing her job in the Senate is what is best for the people of Missouri,&#8221; Meira Bernstein, the senator&#8217;s campaign manager, told the outlet.
Bernstein also said that Shepard is a limited partner in most of the housing projects he&#8217;s invested in that receive federal funds, so he&#8217;s not controlling the day-to-day operations or the profits.
Shepard has been investing in such companies since the 1970s, long before he married McCaskill in 2002. But his investments are getting far more federal awards than before she was elected, even if she&#8217;s not directly responsible.
There could certainly be other reasons for Shepard&#8217;s good fortune. Democrats retook the senate in 2006 and were able to increase spending under former President George W. Bush. This was also the lead up to the housing crisis, so perhaps the need for companies Shepard had invested in rose drastically following the bubble burst. The City Star does not post financial records dating back to Shepard&#8217;s investments under Presidents Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan, for instance.

COINCIDENCE? This Senator’s Husband Has Made A Killing In Investments Since She Took Office

<a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/claire-mccaskill-spent-thousands-use-private-plane-rv-tour/">The Washington Free Beacon reports</a> that &#8220;Air Claire&#8221; McCaskill has racked up more miles on her private jet &#8212; this time, while she was supposed to be traveling her home state of Missouri in an RV.
According to her latest campaign filings, McCaskill spent more than $20,000 last quarter traveling on her private plane. Around $3,200 of that total was used while McCaskill told voters she was touring Missouri in a camper named &#8220;Big Blue&#8221; as part of a promotional tour to meet rural voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
According to WFB, McCaskill has spent more than $100,000 on private plane use this cycle alone.
Using flight tracking data and information about McCaskill&#8217;s private plane, the Free Beacon discovered that instead of traveling from place-to-place in her tricked out RV, McCaskill was appearing with the RV at campaign events, then jetting from place-to-place in relative luxury.
The airplane, WFB found, &#8220;<a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/claire-mccaskills-private-plane-used-on-campaigns-rv-tour-through-missouri/">took the same route</a>&#8221; as McCaskill&#8217;s bizarre, folksy road trip.
McCaskill reimburses the campaign for anything that might look fishy, or might detract from McCaskill&#8217;s image as a &#8220;blue collar&#8221; Democrat who cares deeply for residents of her largely rural home state. In addition to jetting around in what is described as the &#8220;Cadillac&#8221; of private airplanes, McCaskill reportedly reimbursed her campaign for stays at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, and five-star hotels in New York City, New York, and Kansas City, Missouri.
The lonely RV, &#8220;Big Blue,&#8221; is a rental.

Claire McCaskill Spent Thousands To Use Her Private Plane — While She Was Supposed To Be Traveling In An RV

A woman is saying that the Second Amendment saved her life.
The <a href="http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2016/01/04/springfield-woman-says-gun-rights-prevented-tragedy/78283808/">Springfield News-Leader</a> reports that Katie Claxton, a Springfield, MO. resident, was at a gas station Sunday evening when she saw a man headed toward her car and acting in a weird manner. With her four children inside and husband outside getting gas, Claxton tried to lock the car doors but accidentally rolled down the windows instead.
The man, identified as David Middleton, then opened the door and took out a knife. Glaxton shouted for her husband, Matt, to get their gun. He then pointed a Beretta handgun at Middleton.
&#8220;He [Middleton] said &#8216;You&#8217;re lucky he has a gun,'&#8221; Claxton said. &#8220;And then he shut the door and started to back away.&#8221;
Middleton slowly walked away and was eventually arrested.
Claxton told the News-Leader she &#8220;cringes to think what might have happened if her husband hadn&#8217;t pointed a gun at the man and scared him off.&#8221;
&#8220;Our Second Amendment right to carry is what saved our lives,&#8221; Claxton said. &#8220;If we didn&#8217;t have our right to carry, I feel like we wouldn&#8217;t be here today.&#8221;

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