McCaskill(D) says GOP jab insensitive to dead staffer

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/politics/15174500.htm

What started as a typical campaign jab in Missouri's U.S. Senate race on Tuesday quickly escalated into accusations of insensitivity and demands for an apology.

It began with a Missouri Republican Party press release accusing Democrat Claire McCaskill of failing to file a routine campaign finance report on time.

The release included an Internet link to a July 28 letter from the Federal Election Commission to McCaskill saying she "may have failed to file" the pre-primary finance report. Missouri GOP spokesman Paul Sloca said the FEC letter exposed McCaskill's "incompetence and her willful disregard for the law."

McCaskill's campaign denounced the Republican statement as inaccurate - and unprofessional, in light of the death Saturday of Melissa Berridge, the campaign's compliance director.

Berridge, 38, of St. Louis, was among six skydivers who died Saturday in the crash near the eastern Missouri town of Sullivan.

From Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/

In unbelievably bad taste, Jim Talent and the Missouri GOP has attacked a staffer of Claire McCaskill who died over the weekend in a plane crash. Here's the brother at FiredupMissouri:

I am Melissa Berridge's brother James...getting an indoctrination tonight to the blogoshpere. Melissa (Missy to my mom, sisters and I) is the staffer who was attacked today by MOGOP lies just three days after passing away.

Alas, at times the dead DO speak...and I WILL do so for my sister. I want anyone willing to hear me/read what I write to know that this attack came as Missy's family left a funeral home in Fairview Heights, IL after saying goodbye to her. By far the hardest day of my life (seeing what something like this does to your mother is nothing I would wish on anyone) this attack left me simply stunned...at a moment when my entire family was already hurting beyond words.

Missy was going to do great, wonderful things with her life. She already had. I mourn for what she won't do now with an additional 50 years or more of life almost as much as I mourn for losing her physical presence. I already miss her terribly. Yet, we are willing to forgive this action should the MOGOP and Senator Talent simply offer us a written apology.

[orwell]

1. More Compassionate Conservatism...

from the "Party of Values..."

[Ian David]

2. Conservatives have no conscience. n/t

[OzarkDem]

3. So sad

Why do Republicans have to flaunt their cruelty and thoughtlessness? Its bad enough that they harbor those sick values and make them part of our public policy, but do they have to make a public demonstration about how callous and uncaring they are?