NRSC Statement On Senator Claire McCaskill’s Latest Ethics Admission VIDEO

Will Senator Claire McCaskill come clean about the $76,000 of taxpayer dollars funneled to her shell companies? Ask her to release the tax records on her LLC's that she paid $76,000.

In the wake of U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) admission today that she failed to pay nearly $300,000 in property taxes on her private plane – a confession that came only under heavy pressure from Republicans in the wake of reports that she billed taxpayers for travel on her personal aircraft, including for at least one purely political trip, which her office had initially and vehemently denied – National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Executive Director Rob Jesmer issued the following statement:

“Can Missouri voters even believe anything Senator McCaskill says anymore? This is the third time in less than two weeks that she’s had to change her story about her private plane, and she only admitted any of her wrongdoing once she got caught by the media. Now, millionaire Claire McCaskill wants to simply write yet another big check and hope people won’t ask any more questions. It’s high time for McCaskill to finally live up to the same standards of transparency and accountability that she demands of others by immediately releasing her shell company tax records.

TEXT CREDIT: National Republican Senatorial Committee.

VIDEO CREDIT: TheNRSC

Wisconsin Department of Justice files appeal in 4th District Court of Appeals seeking to lift a Temporary Restraining Order Wisconsin Act 10 FULL TEXT

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen

Wisconsin Department of Justice files appeal in 4th District Court of Appeals seeking to lift a Temporary Restraining Order Wisconsin Act 10 FULL TEXT Justice Department Appeal to Restraining Order FULL TEXT in PDF FORMAT Monday, March 21, 2011 MADISON – Today the Wisconsin Department of Justice filed an appeal in the 4th District Court of Appeals seeking to lift a Temporary Restraining Order placed on Secretary of State Doug La Follette's duty to publish 2011 Wisconsin Act 10. Taken directly from the brief the Department asserts: [The] “Court does not need to determine whether the Open Meetings Law was violated.

Instead, it must only assess whether a court may issue an injunction against a party over whom it has no personal jurisdiction, whether a court may issue an injunction to interfere with the constitutional power of the Legislature to declare what shall become law, and whether a court may issue an injunction to suspend publication of a law on a legal basis that does not provide the court with the authority to declare the law void. If the court lacks any of these powers, the TRO must be promptly vacated.”

In summary, today's action by the Justice Department argues:

(1) The (Dane County Circuit) court had no jurisdiction over the legislators (who have legislative immunity) or the Secretary of State (who is not a proper defendant in an Open Meetings case and also enjoys sovereign immunity;

(2) The court may not interfere with the legislative process and enjoin the publication of a bill as the last step in the legislative process; and

(3) Even if the Budget Repair Act were published law, a court could not void it on the basis of an Open Meetings violation. Supreme Court decisions have made clear that a court may not void a law based upon the legislature's failure to follow rules of legislative process, whether those rules exist in statute or legislative rules. Courts may only evaluate whether constitutional procedural requirements were met


TEXT, IMAGE and PDF CREDIT: Wisconsin Department of Justice News Contact William A. Cosh (608)266-1221