McCaskill Campaign Paid Lawyers Critical of Her Opponent

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 8/9/2018 | Brent Scher

[Republican Wildcat]

Lawyers paid $2,500 by campaign just after they wrote 'scathing open letter' to GOP's Josh Hawley

The lawyers who were lead authors of a letter criticizing Republican Josh Hawley's performance as attorney general were paid $2,500 by the campaign of his Democratic opponent Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.).

The $2,500 payment from McCaskill's campaign to Trachtenberg Germinder Hirth Litigation LLC came on April 11, 2018, about three weeks after two of the firm's top lawyers, Joanna Trachtenberg and Andrew Hirth, wrote their letter criticizing Hawley as "incompetent."

The payment, for "legal services," was the first TGH Litigation had received from McCaskill or any other federal campaign. The Missouri-based firm's specialties, according to its website, are workplace discrimination and civil rights claims.

Neither the McCaskill campaign nor TGH Litigation responded to questions on the payment and what "legal services" were provided.

Both Trachtenberg and Hirth established Democratic roots before forming TGH Litigation together, each working for Missouri's previous attorney general, Democrat Chris Koster, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2016 and was succeeded by Hawley. The third member of their firm, Julianne Germinder, also worked for Koster.

The payment from McCaskill's campaign to TGH Litigation adds credence to Hawley's initial response to the letter, which was to characterize it as a partisan attack from lawyers with an "axe to grind" against him.

"It is deeply disappointing to see members of the Bar inject partisan politics into the work of the Attorney General's Office because they have an axe to grind," Hawley's spokesman at his official office said at the time.

Hawley's office also pointed out that it had a year earlier formally notified TGH Litigation that it was breaking Missouri's ethics laws...

[Republican Wildcat]

Dirty Tricks McCaskill strikes again. She should lose, but she certainly isn't going to just hand the race over.

[arrogantsob]

This is a whiff in the wind, gets nothing.

[SaveFerris]

[ McCaskill Campaign Paid Lawyers Critical of Her Opponent]

How Hillaryesque. I’m shocked. SHOCKED I tell ya!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Republican Wildcat.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Looks like the old witch is worried.

[donozark]

Mother McCaskill may come across as everyone's grandmother. Frumpy. Matronly. School-marmy. In fact she is a down in the gutter knife-fighter. She has a HUGE war che$t. Hollywood. Unions. Planned Parenthood,etc. All the usual suspects.

Unions are now emboldened by defeating RTW in Missouri. They will fill her coffers with ton$ of $$ as pay back for supporting them in the RTW fight.

[fungoking]

She’s pretty vested in forgetting; she “forgot” to pay a couple of years worth of taxes on her private plane and she counts on Missouri voters forgetting her uber liberal voting record when she runs for reelection claiming to be a moderate dim.