Romney keeps digging on secrecy

Legal Insurrection ^ | December 29, 2011 | William A. Jacobson

[markomalley]

I noted the other day Romney’s emerging secrecy problem, including the refusal to release income tax returns even if he becomes the nominee.

This is a break with standard practice for nominees, and creates a no win situation in which Romney makes his income and taxes a central general election issue or gives in and looks weak.  Or worse, we find out too late that there was a reason he resisted disclosure.

In a preview of the general election, Occupy protesters have seized on the non-disclosure issue and Romney is digging in:

Des Moines police today arrested a total of 10 protesters at Mitt Romney’s campaign offices and a Wells Fargo branch office.

The protesters, all part of the Occupy Des Moines movement, demanded that Romney and Wells Fargo release their tax returns and that Romney return money donated to his 2012 presidential campaign from Wells Fargo PAC and Wells Fargo employees.

Romney told reporters in Clinton today that he has no plans to release his income-tax returns or lists of people who are bundling donations for him. Romney, who is a multi-millionaire former businessman, said he would do what he’s legally required to do. He suggested he might consider disclosing more financial information in the future.

There is something wrong with this picture, when the Occupy movement makes sense and the putatitve Republican nominee does not.

The issue only will grow as time goes on.  Romney needs to stop digging, or all those people who tell us he is the most electable need to stop telling us he is the most electable.

 

[mk2000]

I'm not defending Romney here but I recently saw a list of documents that Barry never released and I could swear one of them was his tax returns. If it's ok for Barry it's ok for any Republican candidate.

[rdcbn]

Romney is not electable if he does not release his financial information.

[Mashood]

“Romney is not electable if he does not release his financial information.”

If Romney wins the nomination, he should have his financials sealed.

[Bigh4u2]

“Romney is not electable”

You could have stopped right there..

He’s ‘not electable’ whether he releases them or not.

[svcw]

Romney is not electable if he does not release his financial information.

[markomalley]

I'm not defending Romney here but I recently saw a list of documents that Barry never released and I could swear one of them was his tax returns. If it's ok for Barry it's ok for any Republican candidate.

IMHO, he ought to make the challenge that he'll release his tax return if and when Obama releases his college records. All of them.

It would be one of the first respectable things he's done.

(I still wouldn't vote for him...but he should still do something along those lines)

[mk2000]

Just for education and of course many may have seen this already.

PARTIAL LIST OF DOCUMENTS THAT BARACK OBAMA REFUSES TO RELEASE -. OBAMA’S SECRECY AND “CLOSED RECORDS” POLICY

Indonesian Passport – Not released

Application for U.S. Citizenship (as former citizen of Indonesia) – Not released

Immigration Records – Not released

Original Vault Copy Birth Certificate – Not released

Certificate of Live Birth – Counterfeit Version on Obama Web Site

Obama / Dunham Marriage License – Not released

Soetoro / Dunham Marriage License – Not released

Soetoro Adoption Records – Not Released

Fransiskus Assisi School Application – Not released

Punahou School Records – Not released

Selective Service Registration – Counterfeit version generated

Occidental College records – Not released

Columbia College Records – Not released

Columbia Thesis – Not released

Harvard College Records – Not released

Baptism Certificate – None

Medical Records – Not released

Illinois State Senate Records – Not released

Law Practice Client List – Not released

University of Chicago Scholarly Articles – None

[markomalley]

You make my point exactly. Whoever is the GOP nominee should seal all of his records pending release of all those Soetoro records. When Barry opens up, the GOP nominee should open up. Not prior.

[Sgt_Schultze]

If he seals them, they are sure to be released by embedded obieOne supporters, just as “sealed” divorce records have been released in the past.

[Diogenesis]

Romney protected Obama with respect to records.

Romney for Obama in 2011

Chihuahua Romney - the Magic RINO defending Obama:

ROMNEY: "Obama was born in the United States"

ROMNEY: "Obama Doesn’t Need a Birth Certificate"

ROMNEY: "The citizenship test has been passed"

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Romney: $40 Would Make a ‘Substantial
Difference’ to American Families
(Romney covers for Zero)”

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“White House Quotes Romney in Defense of Health Care”

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Mitt Romney Sends Leftover Pizza to Obama Chicago HQ
After spending the day in Chicago fundraising, Mitt Romney
sat down with small business owners at Gino's East,
a pizza joint famous for their deep-dish pizza.
In fact, Romney himself tweeted a photo of a
delivery boy heading out with the loot, writing,
"Great deep dish at @ginoseast.
Sending the extra slices to @barackobama and his Chicago HQ team."

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Milt Romney in 2007

Romney - the Magic RINO:
"I'm not running as the Republican view
or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

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"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn't make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism
or socialism on people has been by way of medicine..."
President Ronald Reagan

[DManA]

No it isn't Aren't you paying attention?

If it's ok for Barry it's ok for any Republican candidate.

[DManA]

What’s your point. Yes there is a double standard. Republicans have never found a way to deal with it. Fighting it is suicide. That’s just a sorry sorry fact.

[mk2000]

Disagree completely, not to beat a dead horse but... It is time to fight back and stop kowtowing to the MSM as well as the Dems.The shame of it is there seems to be only 1 candidate in this field that seems to have the groin to stick it right back at them. Newt and I think he will not get the nomination.

[pallis]

Rombama continues the principle of liberal transparency.

[DManA]

I didn’t say don’t fight back. If you or Romney can find a way to do it God bless you. You make a good suggestion about tying it to Obama.

But I don’t see Romney fighting. Saying he will only do what the law makes him do is being passive. And that approach will kill him. And all the information will come out anyway.