Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin (R) is running a new campaign ad stemming from a report that Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) was enriched from federal low-income housing contracts that she approved while in office.
As OneNewsNow has reported, Associated Press recently revealed that McCaskill's financial reports show her husband, Joseph Shepard, personally earned between $400,000 and $2.6 million from his businesses that received almost $40 million in federal payments from 2007 through 2011. McCaskill voted for some of the bills that funded the federal housing and agriculture departments, which provide housing subsidies.
Now, Republican challenger Todd Akin has released a new ad related to the story.
"Ever wonder why Claire McCaskill called the stimulus bill wildly successful? The stimulus that didn't create jobs, but cost us billions," the ad poses. "Now we know the stimulus made McCaskill rich -- more than $1 million paid to partnerships owned by McCaskill's family. While she gives us excuses, just remember this: McCaskill said, 'There was a group of us who went through the bill line by line.' Claire McCaskill was getting rich off us line by line."
Perry Akin is the candidate's son and campaign manager. He says his father is being overwhelmingly outspent by McCaskill.
"Claire raised a record in the last quarter because she has a lot of money coming in from a lot of liberal groups across the country," he explains. "So, fundraising is a big deal."
More information on how to volunteer or contribute to Todd Akin's campaign is available at his campaign website.