After watching how the fast-and-loose use of airplanes has proved hugely troublesome for two straight governors of North Carolina, and now watching a U.S. Senator also get in trouble in an aviation sense, I think airplanes have replace sex, money and drugs as the biggest temptation for politicians:
In a conference call with reporters, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill just disclosed that she failed to pay $287,000 in property taxes related to her co-ownership of a private aircraft. This scandal comes quickly on the heels of recent revelations that McCaskill improperly billed taxpayers for use of the same private aircraft, for which McCaskill reimbursed the Treasury $88,000.
