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Female senators grill military brass over arrest of sexual assault prevention officer
Female senators lashed out at top military brass on Tuesday following a damning Pentagon report on sexual assault and the arrest of U.S. Air Force sex abuse prevention officer. At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) pressed the military…
Claire McCaskill: Marriage equality ‘is simply the right thing to do for our country’
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) took to the online platform Tumblr to voice her support for marriage equality on Sunday, saying it was getting harder for her to not do so, The Springfield News-Leader reported. “As many of my gay and lesbian friends, colleagues and staff embrace long term committed relationships,…
Todd Akin’s senior aide: ‘If McCaskill were a dog, she’d be a Bullsh*tsu’
A senior aide for Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin (R) on Monday joked that Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill was a “Bullshitsu” dog. “If Claire McCaskill were a dog, she’d be a ‘Bullshitsu,’” Rick Tyler tweeted around noon. Tyler was alluding to comments made by Akin on Saturday. At a…
Akin: McCaskill ‘like one of those dogs: fetch’
Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin (MO) on Saturday accused of his opponent, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, of creating big government policies and fetching them back to Missouri “like a dog.” “She goes to Washington, D.C., it’s a little bit like one of those dogs, ‘fetch,’” Akin said at a fundraiser,…
Akin: McCaskill not acting ‘ladylike’ because she’s ‘threatened’
The Republican Senate candidate from Missouri who recently said that women could not get pregnant from “legitimate rape” may have lost any chance of winning back female voters on Thursday when he accused his opponent of not being “ladylike.” Speaking to reporters in Jefferson City, Rep. Todd Akin again dismissed…
Akin again insists he’s staying in Missouri Senate race
Appearing at at a press conference on Tuesday, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) said again that he’s committed to running against Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) in November. Tuesday’s announcement coincided with the final day Akin could have dropped out of the race. Fellow Republicans have been pressuring Akin to withdraw after…
WATCH LIVE: Todd Akin debates Claire McCaskill
Missouri Senate candidates Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) and Rep. Todd Akin (R) will debate on Friday. Watch this live video from KCTV, broadcast Sept. 21, 2012. KCTV5…
Akin plummets in poll, now trails McCaskill by 9
After a week-long firestorm surrounding his comments about “legitimate rape,” Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) campaign suffered another blow this weekend as a new poll of the Missouri Senate race found him now trailing Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) by nine percentage points. One month ago, the same pollster showed Akin with…
Does ‘legitimate rape’-defining Missouri Rep. Todd Akin believe women are really ducks?
Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), who currently sits on the House Science Committee but would desperately like to replace Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) in the Senate, has some rather odd ideas about human female evolution, which he explained to a local television station yesterday. It seems to me, first of all,…
McCaskill: Rape remarks are a ‘window into Todd Akin’s mind’
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) on Monday said that it was “jaw dropping and stunning” for her Republican opponent for Senate to claim that women who are victims of “legitimate” would not get pregnant. “This statement is kind of window into Todd Akin’s mind,” McCaskill explained to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. “If…
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