New GOP Ad: “McCaskill Needs Help”
Filed Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 12:00 PM
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee has started a new Internet ad this week again hitting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill on her personal finances.
Estimating McCaskill’s net worth at between $13 million and $30 million, the GOP sites sources claiming she and her husband, entrepreneur Joseph Shepard, have gone to great lengths to pay little to no federal taxes.
“Claire McCaskill needs help,” says a female voice in the commercial. “She’s misplaced some of her income.”
The ad claims McCaskill owns a $3 million airplane registered in Delaware, a state with no sales or personal property taxes. “She’s misplaced some of her income in 150 limited partnerships,” says the voiceover.
McCaskill has defended her husband’s decision not to release his current tax returns to the media, saying they have released more than enough information on their personal finances and that her husband’s “complicated” tax returns would just be used to further distract from the important issues of the campaign.