Hawley blames McCaskill for campaign's high legal spending

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON -- Top GOP Senate recruit Josh Hawley has spent more than $110,000 on lawyers since he launched his campaign four months ago —about 20 percent of his total spending so far in the race, and a sum that experts say is unusually high.

His campaign blames Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, the Democrat Hawley hopes to oust in November, for the high legal expenses.

“Claire McCaskill and her allies have a deliberate strategy to smear Josh and his wife, Erin,” said Hawley campaign spokeswoman Kelli Ford in a statement.

Ford pointed to what she said were “multiple frivolous” campaign finance complaints filed against Hawley by the American Democracy Legal Fund, a creation of influential Democratic operative David Brock. The complaints allege that Hawley illegally paid Senate consultants with state campaign funds.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article201655609.html

[Phoenix61]

1. Snowflake. nt

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Blaming everybody else but themselves...just filed for the 1st time to run for office.

Perhaps this were absolutely valid complaints filed by Senator McCaskill being that this is the first time Hawley is running for this office, despite having been just elected to his first statewide MO office. I don't trust this guy anymore being that if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, he's going to go over there instead.

Think he hot and special being that he's just won his first statewide office, and Missouri republicans are desperate to find someone to run against Claire. Hawley needs to finish doing his first elected office before going and running off for another elected position. And a hypocrite since he's spent all of the that prior money going for the statewide MO office he's in now, and then complain about Senator McCaskill's campaign spending.

What about his spending and wasting taxpayer dollars (donations) in obtaining the office he now holds? Claire will change this guy's diapers and put him to bed as he deserves.

[Sherman A1]

3. Agreed

He barely has gotten into the job and he is looking to move on.

That is more than enough reason for me not to trust him.