I am proud to announce my support for Claire McCaskill. Visit her website, www.claireonline.com, and donate whatever you can. According to Rasmussen Reports, she leads Jim Talent, the Republican incumbant, 47 to 45%, and she has a 7% lead over Talent amongst independent voters. Talent, however, has over $4 million dollars in his coffers, while McCaskill is yet to clear the $1 million dollar mark.
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McCaskill is a fighting Democrat. View the quotes I provide in the extended body. She is an outspoken candidate who will humiliate Talent.
McCaskill on Talent and minimum wage:
"I was raised to believe that we are a country that values work. But I don't believe that Washington politicians like Jim Talent value our workers when they vote to pay them a wage that keeps them below the poverty line. And I don't believe they value workers when they try to eliminate overtime pay and worker protections.
"We need a change, and with the help of the working men and women here and all across the state, we will win this campaign and restore common sense and middle class values to Washington."
McCaskill on Talent's inability to save Missouri military bases:
"Despite his position on the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee, Jim Talent could not deliver for Missouri. Other Republican Senators who have been in office less time than Jim Talent actually stood up to Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and fought successfully to save their state's facilities from the administration's plans to take them away.
"Instead of sounding the alarm months ago, instead of standing up to the administration, instead of using his position on the Senate Armed Services Committee to block this process and save Missouri jobs, Jim Talent invited Dick Cheney to fly into the very place where some of those cuts are going to take place in order to host a campaign fund-raiser for himself with the powerful special interests that really have become our senator's top priority.
"You can't leave any footprints if you don't stand up. And instead of standing up for his constituents, Jim Talent got walked all over by the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld administration."
McCaskill on Washington, DC, in general:
"Washington has lost it .... They've lost good, old-fashioned Missouri common sense," McCaskill said.
"I think it is a very good thing that I don't have experience in Washington.... I will come with independence and a fresh perspective."
McCaskill's response to the notion that she is not fit to be Senator because she lacks Washington, DC, experience:
" I think we've had all the Washington experience we can handle," she said.
McCaskill on Republican spending:
"These guys have spent money at a rate, they make drunken sailors look sober," she said.
McCaskill on Talent's energy policy:
"Jim Talent went all over up here talking about what he'd done for the corn growers," said the Democrat about this year's energy legislation. "Here's what he did. He gave the crumbs for alternative fuel, and he gave $14 billion to the oil companies."
McCaskill on Talent's relation to the oil lobby:
"America's smart. They know we've got two oilmen in Washington and they're going to take care of the oilmen," she said. "We just need to remind them and that we're the party that takes care of the average working person."
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