The Club for Growth, a conservative advocacy organization, is taking aim at Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, focusing on past domestic violence accusations against her husband.
“Claire McCaskill has been giving the back of her hand to voters and padding the pockets of her family for a generation… her husband’s treatment of women and her turning a blind eye while funding the agencies that pay her own family is hypocrisy at its finest. Missourians deserve better,” Club for Growth spokeswoman said in a statement provide to the Washington Examiner.
The group noted that Suzanne Shepard, the ex-wife of Joseph Shepard, McCaskill’s husband, had filed for an order of protection from Shepard, the Examiner reported.
The Club posted a video ad in support of Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley in the race for McCaskill’s Senate position. “Each week in Missouri, over five hundred requests for shelter and assistance for domestic violence victims go unmet. Is Claire McCaskill listening?” the ad says.
“Even after McCaskill’s political benefactor and now-husband was accused of abusing his then-wife, McCaskill looked the other way, voting to finance the agencies providing him with fat government contracts,” the ad continues.
McCaskill has a one-point average lead of Hawley, RealClearPolitics reported.
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