BeechTalk - BT - Claire Macaskill private plane dust up. $1 m pc 12?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2018, 13:55

Username Protected wrote:

Simple solution any politician campaigning on MY dime should be forced to use a Yellow 1973 Pinto wagon with one snow tire on the right front.
If they use their money a G550 is OK.

She didn't use our money, she used her campaign money. Although she has gotten into trouble in the past for using our money.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 13 Jun 2018, 14:49

Username Protected wrote:

Simple solution any politician campaigning on MY dime should be forced to use a Yellow 1973 Pinto wagon with one snow tire on the right front.
If they use their money a G550 is OK.

"A yellow 1973 Pinto wagon with a snow tire on the right front."

Well, not exactly a Barrett-Jackson contender.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Jun 2018, 16:32

Its not about the use of the plane. Its about the hypocrisy.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Jun 2018, 17:24

Username Protected wrote:

Its not about the use of the plane. Its about the hypocrisy.

So you want senators to use their time inefficiently?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Jun 2018, 18:06

Username Protected wrote:

Its not about the use of the plane. Its about the hypocrisy.

So you want senators to use their time inefficiently?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Jun 2018, 18:41

Username Protected wrote:

So you want senators to use their time inefficiently?

That's not what I said.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 14 Jun 2018, 18:42

Username Protected wrote:

Some of my best posts are written in white font.

I agree.

Mike C.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Jun 2018, 21:17

Username Protected wrote:

I don't find it plausible that she left one rally in the bus, the bus drove to the local airport, she got on the plane, flew to next stop, waited for the bus to arrive at that airport, got on the bus, and then the bus drove to the next rally. Yet that is what the article implies heavily.

It's pretty clear to me that this is exactly what she did. How else would you explain the plane movements detailed here?

http://freebeacon.com/politics/claire-m ... -missouri/

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Jun 2018, 21:37

Username Protected wrote:

It's pretty clear to me that this is exactly what she did.

So a big flashy blue bus goes to the local airport, drops off a senator, who boards a plane and takes off.

And there are no pictures posted on social media of such an event?

Nearly every human carries a megapixel camera these days and have instant access to social media.

The other reason I don't think it happened is that it didn't improve her speed getting anywhere since she would have to wait for the bus at the destination airport.

I find it plausible she used the airplane to make side trips while the bus was on a longish leg enroute somewhere, or to get in an extra visit in the evening. That is what GA is about, BTW.

These stories fit the profile of hatchet news. Find some misleading small evidence and turn it into a news story that a true journalist would have researched properly. The story authors aren't seeking truth, truth doesn't sell. News is marketed to your bias instead. People want to hear what they already believe. This leads to a divisive, ignorant, and manipulated public.

Mike C.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Jun 2018, 21:48

Username Protected wrote:

I want the head of the EPA to fly business class and candidates to use whatever planes they can legally use (provided by donors, chartered, owned, don't care) to do their campaign work.

Looked like a pc12. Pretty frugal and efficient. Support workers, take the bus, no?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Jun 2018, 22:29

Username Protected wrote:

I find it plausible she used the airplane to make side trips while the bus was on a longish leg enroute somewhere, or to get in an extra visit in the evening. That is what GA is about, BTW.

According to the tracking data, the airplane didn't go anywhere the bus hadn't been, so side trips theory doesn't hold up.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 17 Jun 2018, 23:30

Username Protected wrote:

No need to take the bus to the airport, car service does exist in every town.

Okay, so the bus takes her from the rally (she seen boarding it), they stop somewhere so she transfers to a car service, the car service takes her to the airport, she flies away on the PC-12, she waits at the other airport, another car service takes her to a meet point with the bus, she then takes the bus to the next rally (she is seen stepping off the bus).

Is that your theory?

Well, if she can be that organized, and hire a staff which kept it secret, then maybe she should get elected on that basis alone.

Mike C.