Claire McCaskill Campaigns in Joplin
Less than two weeks away from the mid-term elections, Missouri Democratic US Senator Claire McCaskill paid a visit to her Joplin office to speak to her supporters. She spoke on a number of issues including immigration. “The border patrol agents endorsed President Trump. The border patrol agents looked at my record and looked at Josh Hawley and they endorsed me because they know I have been a strong voice for border security. This notion that I somehow am wanting open borders couldn’t be further from the truth. The border patrol agents know I’ve been on the border, I’ve done night patrols with them, I have listened to what they need, it is some more barriers. It is in fact more technology and more personnel which I have voted for billions of dollars to support that and there is no way I would do ever do anything but back the president up in terms of him securing our border against a people that are trying to move in mass over our border.”
“Trump is trying to convince people that somehow we all don’t agree that the border needs to be secure. Of course, the border needs to be secured.”
McCaskill says she has a problem with dark money in the state. “I am against dark money and Citizens United and unlimited contributions from corporations and billionaires being done in secret. Josh Hawley is in favor of that.”
“If Missourians knew who was paying for the ads for Josh Hawley they would appreciate the enemies I’ve made. The pharmaceutical drug industry does not want me anywhere near Washington because I am not afraid of them.”
She goes on to say that the opioid issue needs to be addressed as well and that Josh Hawley is not for pre-existing conditions. “Josh Hawley wanted to make a point politically and he didn’t think about the consequences to people in Missouri. He signed on to a lawsuit to get rid of every consumer protection in the law that you have against health insurance companies, including the most one that you can still get insurance if you’ve been sick before.”
McCaskill says there are bad parts of the Affordable Care Act that need to be addressed. “I think we should have an even less expensive plan for people who are young and very healthy that can get them in the pool because the way you keep insurance costs down is by attracting more healthy people into the pool…if the only people who are buying insurance are sick it gets very expensive.”
She says when Republicans failed to garner enough votes for a new plan they changed the subject. “We need to vote on improvements that I think would make it better and make it less onerous and keep the good parts that everyone appreciates”
“The President has signed into law over 30 pieces of my legislation because that’s the type of Senator I am.”