GOP Gov. Calls on Mitt Romney to Release Additional Tax Returns and Show He Has ‘Nothing to Hide’

ABC News ^ | 7-14-12 | Michael Falcone

[raulgomez05]

Bentley said that Romney’s refusal to release more returns has created a “distraction” that Democrats were successfully exploiting. “I just believe in total transparency,” Bentley told ABC News at the National Governors Association conference. “In fact, I was asked today that question — do you think that Governor Romney should release his tax returns? And I said I do. I said, I release my tax returns. I may be the only public official in Alabama that does, but I release mine every year and I just believe that people should release their tax returns. And if you get them out and just get past that, it just makes it so much easier.” Bentley, who took office in 2001, warned that failure to do so would continue to open the door for the Obama campaign and their Democratic allies to “cause distractions away from the real issue in this campaign and that’s the economy.”

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

To: jz638 Romney needs to step down and let another candidate take over

Let me take a realllll wild guess: RON PAUL, right???

[ballplayer]

These people are really Ripe. Where do you begin,I am Convinced they Pile so much Crap out there, there is Literally not enough Hours in the day to answer all the Lawlessness,Corruption And Hypocrisy of the Obamas and their sycophants. Cecil B.Demille would be Hard Pressed to film an Epoch of this Magnitude,It sure wouldnt be The Greatest Story Ever Told. Maybe someone else could come up with a Better title

[ballplayer]

These people are really Ripe. Where do you begin,I am Convinced they Pile so much Crap out there, there is Literally not enough Hours in the day to answer all the Lawlessness,Corruption And Hypocrisy of the Obamas and their sycophants. Cecil B.Demille would be Hard Pressed to film an Epoch of this Magnitude,It sure wouldnt be The Greatest Story Ever Told. Maybe someone else could come up with a Better title

[ballplayer]

These people are really Ripe. Where do you begin,I am Convinced they Pile so much Crap out there, there is Literally not enough Hours in the day to answer all the Lawlessness,Corruption And Hypocrisy of the Obamas and their sycophants. Cecil B.Demille would be Hard Pressed to film an Epoch of this Magnitude,It sure wouldnt be The Greatest Story Ever Told. Maybe someone else could come up with a Better title

[amishman]

You’re right. Nobody cares about anything. That’s why his approval stays in the mid-40s despite being the worst ever. The worst imaginable news against him would not cause his support to drop below 40%. There is never any outcry from the sheep over anything anymore. There’s more outcry over DirecTV customers losing their Viacom channels than over the Obamacare ruling, Fast & Furious, or any of his many power grabs this summer. I’m pretty sure we’re finished as a productive nation/society.

[amishman]

Unless Romney starts attacking Obama personally and hard, he’s going down in a Kerry-like defeat.

[The Great RJ]

Romney should very publicly release his tax returns AND a copy of his real birth certificate AND his college transcripts and challenge Obozo to do the same.

[sunny48]

That really pissed me off and I was going to contact this Bently.
His comments were taken out of context. Here is a link to the letter posted on his website: http://www.governor.alabama.gov/news/news_detail.aspx?ID=6749

[vmivol00]

Yeah...like this loser has stones enough to do that. Nice fantasy though.

[montag813]

BENTLEY SAID NO SUCH THING, AND EVEN RELEASED AN IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE ACCUSING THE AP OF MISQUOTING HIM...

Governor Bentley Responds to Misleading Report on Romney Financial Documents

The AP and every media outlet has reported it anyway. Spread the word on this disinformation.

[tsowellfan]

Let me take a realllll wild guess: RON PAUL, right?

HELL no! You don't need to be the crazy uncle who lives in the cellar to see that Romney needs to step down before it's too late!

[SeminoleCounty]

This GOP governor needs to be asking for Obama to show his birth certificate

If GOP or conservatives are not making the Obama Birth Cert?Eligibility a major issue, by now, they are actively helping to re-elect Obama

Pushing Romney to release records, and giving Obama a pass...is just being a Liberal Democrat

[WOSG]

I’m not sure anyone CARES what is in Romney’s tax returns, on either side of the political spectrum.

Romney made a lot of money.

If you think making a lot of money is a crime, then you’ll be outraged by a multi-millionaire’s returns / life etc. no matter what’s in the tax returns. If you believe in the American dream and free markets, its BFD.

“Personally, I don’t think it matters how much information the Romney campaign provides, the Obama campaign and his willing accomplices in the media will never say it is enough. They don’t want the truth, they don’t want transparency, they want Romney destroyed.”

Correct. It’s a scam designed to rob the American people of a real debate on the real issues for 2012 - how to get out of the economic mess we are in?

[rcrngroup]

Great listing of 0dumb0sh_t’s list of sealed or hidden records. C’mon Mitt, man-up and pounce on that sonofabitch 0dumb0 for not releasing his own lengthy list of hidden documents or records. Be a man! You didn’t hold back on attacking or unleashing the dogs on Newt or Hermann or Santorum or Michelle Bachmann.