Them: McCaskill Ad

The Majority PAC was started in 2012 with the intention of keeping a Democratic majority in the Senate. On May 18th they released “Them”, an advertisement on behalf of current Senator Claire McCaskill. The ad talks about Senator McCaskill’s attempts to punish companies that ship jobs overseas, while giving tax breaks to companies in Missouri who hire locally.

Majority PAC cited two sources for their ad from National Journal and something titled “Business”. National Journal was implied as saying McCaskill fights back against companies that ship jobs overseas (:10), but looking at the article...that is just not true in the slightest. National Journal was writing an article about political happenings across the country, with the title of the article being “McCaskill fights back”, yet the only mention of Senator McCaskill in the article is how she is fighting back against a Crossroads, not companies shipping jobs overseas.

We are unable to identify what source “Business” is, and currently have an email out to Majority PAC waiting for a response from them concerning it. If anyone knows though, please comment below! We would love to check this out.


In 2010, Senator McCaskill created a new tax credit to help small business expand and add employees. One detail of the HIRE Act Tax Credit gives a business a payroll tax break for the year of 2010 if the business hired an employee who had been unemployed for at least 60 days. In addition, if the new employee stayed with the business for a year, the business would receive a tax credit of $1000.

Senator McCaskill also worked with Maine Senator Susan Collins to produce the Bipartisan Jobs Creation Act. The act strived to create more jobs by cutting taxes for small businesses. The bipartisan bill would be paid for by cutting tax subsidies for for big oil companies.

Most recently, Senator McCaskill also voted for the Bipartisan Highway Jobs Bill. The bill would put millions of dollars into Missouri transportation projects for the next two years, thus creating jobs to work on Missouri’s transportation infrastructure.

This will be the first third party ad we have checked that benefits Senator McCaskill. While they are pretty factual on the subject of helping Missouri out with tax credits, they quote a big ol' fat pants on fire lie, taking the National Journal quote so far out of context they waved to the Curiosity rover on their way out of this universe. We hope to have an update from Majority PAC about who "Business" is before we can pass 100% judgement on this ad. For now though: This barely qualifies as middle of the road.