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Husband Of Labor Secretary Revealed As Tax Cheat Just Hours Prior To Confirmation (Vote posponed)
USA Today (but not direct link) ^ | 2-5-09 | an amused spectator

Posted on 02/05/2009 10:58:54 AM PST by icwhatudo

Pardon the vanity in breaking news, but we can not link to USA Today articles and the Labor Secretary is about to be voted on this afternoon.

The link above can be followed to find the article in keeping with no direct linking to USA Today policy.

It was learned just hours prior to the confirmation vote that the usband of Obama's Labor nominee paid tax liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.google.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cultureofcorruption; democrats; democratscandals; hildasolis; obama; obamaadministration; obamascandals; solis; taxcheat; taxcheatparty
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To: icwhatudo

Don’t forget Blago and Obama go way way back together.

If Obama had been elected in 2006 not 2008 Blago would have been on the cabinet.


161 posted on 02/05/2009 5:08:30 PM PST by cubsfanconswoman (If Obama wants to redistribute wealth can start with Yankees WS titles to the Cubs Just 1!)
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To: Robert Lomax

Out of loop what is Woodward’s information?


162 posted on 02/05/2009 5:12:17 PM PST by cubsfanconswoman (If Obama wants to redistribute wealth can start with Yankees WS titles to the Cubs Just 1!)
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To: cubsfanconswoman

Man, I’ll bet you they’re loving their Hope and Change just about now...


163 posted on 02/05/2009 5:20:45 PM PST by an amused spectator (Citizen Kenyan: Commander in The Effort Against Culturally-Influenced Misbehavior.)
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To: cubsfanconswoman
http://gawker.com/5139378/bob-woodward-promises-sexy-obama-scandal
164 posted on 02/05/2009 5:22:36 PM PST by an amused spectator (Citizen Kenyan: Commander in The Effort Against Culturally-Influenced Misbehavior.)
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To: icwhatudo
I take this as a good sign, really:

this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Dimocrats really DO believe in lower taxes!

165 posted on 02/05/2009 6:00:15 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: cubsfanconswoman

He’s tight lipped about it now but he give a teaser to what is coming....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2172175/posts


166 posted on 02/05/2009 6:40:56 PM PST by Robert Lomax
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To: STARWISE

Good God!


167 posted on 02/05/2009 7:20:17 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: cubsfanconswoman

“I have a good friend who works on installment agreements for the IRS (she’s the one who processes the applications and figures out the payments etc) and says the phone people will be found curled up in corners whimpering.”

Are you saying the “phone people” IN the IRS offices sometimes act so? What are you implying- that they are sympathetic to delinquents’ plights or just driven to disorder by the sophistication of excuses?

Are they on a quota of performance?

Is there any rational explanation whatsoever for their behavior? How long historically have you seen this? Have the standards been dropped in hiring people of some character?


168 posted on 02/05/2009 8:14:47 PM PST by BonRad (As Rome goes so goes the world)
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To: icwhatudo
This is the same nominee who refused to discuss her War Against the Secret Ballot unless she could testify in secret.

She didn't get the President's memo on "transparency."

Who's on the vetting team? Are they Republicans????

169 posted on 02/05/2009 8:50:56 PM PST by cookcounty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built, also." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
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To: icwhatudo
Tax Snafus Add Up for Obama Team
Records at the Los Angeles County recorder's office showed there were 15 outstanding state and county tax liens against Sayyad and his business, totaling $7,630.57, not including interest. Two other liens worth $981 were released in 1999 after he repaid the taxes owed, records show. A tax lien is a legal claim filed by the government to collect unpaid taxes or fees.
170 posted on 02/05/2009 10:20:51 PM PST by smokingfrog (T.A.R.P. = Viagra for politicians and you get screwed.)
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To: cookcounty

Solis is transparent alright, but not in a good way.


171 posted on 02/05/2009 10:29:12 PM PST by nufsed
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To: mom4melody

Camelot? Don’t you mean Babylon? The Kennedy family has nothing in common with Camelot, except for the fact that Sir Lancelot had an affair with Queen Guinevere.


172 posted on 02/06/2009 12:54:11 AM PST by kevinw
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To: Syncro; OB1kNOb; Nachum

We could go back to pre-inauguration and add Bill Richardson’s nomination/withdrawal, if you wish to compile all of his nomination follies.


173 posted on 02/06/2009 2:24:55 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: icwhatudo

Do any Democrats pay their fair share?

It’s like all these chiselers belong to an exclusive club. That when you have a gubbermint connection you can take a chance with cheating and your punishment will be minimal if at all


174 posted on 02/06/2009 2:29:42 AM PST by dennisw (How can you expect fairness or decency on a planet of sleeping people---Gurdjieff)
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To: BonRad

I’m talking about people who deal with people who purposely evade taxes and working out payment agreements with them. Now these people who use every excuse in the book will use this. Yes there are people with legitimate tax problems but 99 percent of these people just purposely overclaimed exemptions etc.

In fact one of the tricks illegals use is to claim 9 exemptions so no income tax is taken out (and that’s the max you can claim without filing special paperwork with the IRS)

By the way Geithner et al would not be able to have this job either because you need to have a clean tax record.


175 posted on 02/06/2009 3:27:45 AM PST by cubsfanconswoman (If Obama wants to redistribute wealth can start with Yankees WS titles to the Cubs Just 1!)
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To: kevinw

LOL...I think you’re right!


176 posted on 02/06/2009 5:40:35 AM PST by mom4melody
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To: CedarDave

Here’s what I saw, following your link: you cannot post full text or excerpts from USA TODAY, USA WEEKEND, and USA TODAY Sports Weekly. You can link, apparently, so I stand corrected.


177 posted on 02/06/2009 6:58:41 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (This election gave the drunks the keys to the liquor cabinet!)
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To: Gondring; PEACE ENFORCER
I pinged Nachum to my orginal posting of his list hopeing he would come here and update it.

I did find an update he did yesterday, here it is:

Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:43:18 AM · 8 of 8
Nachum to llevrok
Added to: "The list"

5 exectutive ordersFirst week in office
Insults China
First interview, with foreign news outlet- for Muslims
Talks about his muslim family
Picks fight with Limbaugh
Won't take question from press
Allows to FDA approve first human embryonic stem cell safety trial (3 days after Pres. Bush left)
Excludes any compromise with GOP on Stimulus bill
Massive pork in stimulus bill
5% of stimulus bill to actually go to infrastructure
Offers to negotiate directly with Iran
Puts 5 millionairs on his cabinet
Makes a tax cheat the Sec. of the Treasury
Bombs Pakistan
Argues with the Pope on abortion
Signed the Schip bill, that gives health care to illegals
Won't allow a camera in to video his retaking of the oath of office
Ordered the closure of Gitmo
Halts all pending Bush regulations
Second week:
Appoints extremist Samantha Powers to head foreign policy team
Secret nuke talks with Iran/Syria
Appoints tax cheat for commerce secretary
Illegal alien aunt, granted a "stay" of deportation
Daschle the tax cheat/lobbiest proposed as secretary for health care
Nancy Killefer for candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for federal government fails to pay household help taxes ...withdrawn
12 lobbyists (or more) appointed to high gov't positions within the first 14 days of his administration (up to 17 by another source)
Administration demands defense cuts of 10% during wartime
Obama envoy George Mitchell tells Palistinians " they believe can extract from Israel concessions reaching "much further" than during talks held under the previous administration
The European Union warns the US yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting Obama's “Buy American” policy, intensifying fears of a trade war Obama immediately backs down from policy
After stating her priority would be "mum-in-chief", Michelle Obama goes on listening tour and then makes political speeches with her husband not yet one month in office...
George Mitchell resigns from a Saudi Lobbying firm, two weeks into his appointment as "Special Middle East Envoy" Obama administration says it will cancel 77 drilling leases near Utah parks
Ogden, President Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, used to represent Playboy
Steven Chu, Obama's secretary of energy (not a climatologist) states: California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming
Obama names “most fined” Washington State bureaucrat Ron simms to the #2 position in HUD


178 posted on 02/06/2009 8:29:10 AM PST by Syncro (Ti Ming -- Use Librally)
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To: icwhatudo
Woo hoo!

Add it to "The List"

5 exectutive ordersFirst week in office
Insults China
First interview, with foreign news outlet- for Muslims
Talks about his muslim family
Picks fight with Limbaugh
Won't take question from press
Allows to FDA approve first human embryonic stem cell safety trial (3 days after Pres. Bush left)
Excludes any compromise with GOP on Stimulus bill
Massive pork in stimulus bill
5% of stimulus bill to actually go to infrastructure
Offers to negotiate directly with Iran
Puts 5 millionairs on his cabinet
Makes a tax cheat the Sec. of the Treasury
Bombs Pakistan
Argues with the Pope on abortion
Signed the Schip bill, that gives health care to illegals
Won't allow a video of his retaking of the oath of office
Ordered the closure of Gitmo
Halts all pending Bush regulations
Second week:
Appoints extremist Samantha Powers to head foreign policy team
Secret nuke talks with Iran/Syria
Appoints tax cheat for commerce secretary
Illegal alien aunt, granted a "stay" of deportation
Daschle the tax cheat/lobbiest proposed as secretary for health care
Nancy Killefer for candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for federal government fails to pay household help taxes ...withdrawn
12 lobbyists (or more) appointed to high gov't positions within the first 14 days of his administration (up to 17 by another source)
Administration demands defense cuts of 10% during wartime
Obama envoy George Mitchell tells Palistinians " they believe can extract from Israel concessions reaching "much further" than during talks held under the previous administration
The European Union warns the US yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting Obama's “Buy American” policy, intensifying fears of a trade war Obama immediately backs down from policy
After stating her priority would be "mum-in-chief", Michelle Obama goes on listening tour and then makes political speeches with her husband not yet one month in office...
George Mitchell resigns from a Saudi Lobbying firm, two weeks into his appointment as "Special Middle East Envoy" Obama administration says it will cancel 77 drilling leases near Utah parks
Ogden, President Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, used to represent Playboy
Steven Chu, Obama's secretary of energy (not a climatologist) states: California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming
Obama names “most fined” Washington State bureaucrat Ron simms to the #2 position in HUD
Hilda Solis, Obama's pick for labor secretary's husband is found to be a tax cheat just before the confirmation vote

179 posted on 02/06/2009 9:13:04 AM PST by Nachum (I've told Nancy Pelosi a hundred billion times to not exaggerate!)
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To: Nachum

And the hits just keep on coming! The heck with yearning for the days of Dubya again. By March, we’ll be yearning for the CARTER years.


180 posted on 02/06/2009 9:14:52 AM PST by ssaftler (Barack Obama-lini: First Rock Star selected President of the United States)
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