Hot damn! Thanks anon. We need to have some eyeballs on that situation.
Shanghai, wasn't Shanghai the location of that "guy crossing the street" photo Q dropped a while back? And they mention a school, wasn't some sort of school mentioned in the discussion of same?
Favorite pic of Stacey Abrams with her BFF Valerie Jarrett who was in ATL for a campaign stop.
I hope Brian Kemp beats her like a redheaded stepchild.
In April of 2002, her fourth year as State Auditor, Claire McCaskill married St. Louis businessman Joseph Shepard who, like her, was a veteran of an extremely troubled previous marriage.
At a campaign event this September, which was attended by President Clinton, McCaskill introduced her second husband as one of the “people that make my life work, the people that establish my values on this planet, the people that I love more even than this state I live in.”
One can only assume that Claire McCaskill knows about her husband’s history of gross domestic violence and spousal abuse – and one can only wonder what part of her “values” that established.
The domestic violence in Shepard’s past is both shocking and repulsive in detail. On February 15, 1998, police were called to then-Mrs. Shepard’s house (the couple had been separated since June of the previous year) by a girlfriend. According to the police report (.pdf file), Mrs. Shepard said of her husband:
Read on.
"Joseph entered my home. I told him to leave. He came up to me looking angry. I put my hands up to protect my breasts as they are sore (cancer). He has hit me before in the breast. He grabbed my wrist and arm and pushed me up against the wall & I hit my head & back & he bruised my arms by pinching me."
As distasteful and appalling as that is, it’s nothing compared to what Mrs. Shepard told police, and the Saint Louis Family Court, that she had endured from her husband in the past. Once again, from the police report:
"He has tripped me, hit me before (police were called by my daughter), punched my cancer breast, peed on me, pushed me down and slapped me. He now threatens that everything I have is his and I will end up in his low-income housing and he wants to take my things."
This is absolutely appalling, to say the least; the only good that can be said is that Mrs. Shepard was finally able to escape her marriage to the man now responsible for Claire McCaskill’s “values.”
The couple had four adopted children, a fact made possible by Shepard’s serving on the board of the adoption service-providing Children's Home Society of Missouri (OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD)– and these unfortunate innocents also had to live through Shepard’s unspeakable husband-on-wife abuse.
https://investigativerep.blogspot.com/2012/01/claire-mccaskill-d-missouri-slums-drugs.html
SHEPARD’S UNPRINCIPLED PAST DOES NOT STOP with simple spousal assault. A millionaire businessman who is a director, board member or officer in 18 corporations, he has personally financed McCaskill's political career, including providing $1.6 million in the primary phase of her 2004 run for Governor (in which she ousted the Democrat incumbent).
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shepard’s business history reveals a man who has made his fortune off of taxpayer dollars, by “aggressively [seeking] public subsidies” and reaping spectacular financial reward from rural, low-income housing.
Over 30 years, Shepard became a a slumlord, amassing “a housing empire that, at one point, included nearly 10,000 apartments in 23 states.”
Why low-income housing? Because it is lucrative for extremely wealthy investors, like Shepard, who seek to shield their money from taxation through write offs – and in low-income housing, investors can “write off more money than a project produces, thus claiming a net loss for tax purposes.”
As a result, Shepard's interest in 175 companies is valued at less than $1,000, and he has a stake in 192 companies which supposedly generate less than $201 in annual income.
As State Auditor, McCaskill claims that she has complied with disclosure laws; however, it would be very difficult for an ordinary person to amass a net worth totaling between $13 million and more than $30 million, the couple’s wealth according to a statement she filed with the Senate, on just $201 per month.
There is also the issue of nursing homes – an industry which McCaskill promised to clean up when running for Auditor in 1998. The Missouri State Auditor is responsible for auditing the Department of Health and Senior Services, which regulates the state's nursing home system; Shepard, as luck would have it, happened to own six such businesses. A wife, in charge of auditing an industry in which her husband is a prominent business owner? Sounds like a conflict of interest – unless you’re Claire McCaskill, that is.
When the subject was broached during her 2004 gubernatorial campaign, McCaskill brushed off the idea of conflict of interest by saying that her husband was out of the nursing home business. However, records show he still received $3 million in rent from nursing home companies that year.
Not only that, several of the nursing homes Shepard had operated were repeatedly cited for deficiencies by inspectors or sued with allegations of poor care, sexual abuse or wrongful death at the time of his management. Still no conflict of interest with his wife handling the audit.
Rather, McCaskill maintains that her audit of the industry did not overlap with any period of time when her husband operated nursing homes. Unfortunately, beyond the world of semantics, that’s just not true, as Joseph Shepard still owns the buildings that contain the nursing homes. No word on what McCaskill’s next Houdini-like attempt to escape the facts of this matter will include.
The conflict of interest in McCaskill’s personal and professional dealings with Shepard’s businesses has the potential only to increase should she be elected to the Senate. As the USDA handles low income housing issues, a Senator McCaskill would be in a position to help her husband's slums even more.
Hoping the #WalkAway trend engages full speed in Georgia.
Metro Atlanta, in particular, has suffered all sorts of idiocy because, in the past at least, blacks will vote for ANYBODY else who's also black.
It's not that I have a problem with black politicians. It's the same policy I have for white politicians, Asian politicians, or any other variety:
Be intelligent, or gtfo.