By Antonio D. French
Filed Wednesday, March 1 at 8:12 AM
The Hotline, the blog of the National Journal, is reporting that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) covered some December payroll and insurance expenses for Claire McCaskill's senate campaign.
Republican researchers pouring over McCaskill's year-end FEC filing could not find an entry showing that any of the campaign's staff of eleven had been paid in December. Disbursements to a New York-based paycheck company were recorded through the end of November, only.
The GOPers discovered that that the DSCC, on Dec. 22, paid $24,107 to that paycheck company and listed McCaskill as benefiting from the expense.
The NRSC [National Republican Senate Committee] did not pick up campaign salaries for any of its candidates and the DSCC did not cover the same expenses for any other Senate campaign.
That leads the NRSC to conclude that, in the words of a spokesman there, the DSCC "clearly" was doing its best to make sure that McCaskill ended the year with as much cash on hand as possible.
According to that theory, the higher the number -- even if inflated by a paltry $24K -- the more favorably the small circle of Washington's elite political analysts would treat the health of McCaskill's campaign.
According to The Hotline, the DSCC called the payments "irrelevant and significance-free." So far, the DSCC has spent about $94,000 in Missouri.
As of the last campaign finance report, Jim Talent leads McCaskill in fundraising by more than 3-to-1.
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