Akin ad hits McCaskill for federal subsidies

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Republican Senate challenger Todd Akin launched a TV ad Thursday claiming the family of Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill “pocketed $40 million of federal subsidies” — an assertion that McCaskill says is not true.

The ad dubs McCaskill as “corrupt Claire” and claims she is “getting rich off government.” It cites an Associated Press report from earlier this week that businesses affiliated with McCaskill’s husband had received almost $40 million of federal housing subsidies during her first five years in office. That report, however, did not say McCaskill’s family personally pocketed all of that money.