Ohio Senate update (Brown tax problems)

National Review Sixers ^ | 10/19 02:45 PM | Greg Pollowitz

[RDTHarley]

Looks like Sherrod Brown has a little tax problem that's come to light. Here's a press release from the DeWine camp that just hit my inbox: "Sherrod Brown admitted the State of Ohio had to take legal action to force him to pay his taxes. As state officials confirmed, Sherrod Brown did not pay the unemployment taxes that every other employer in Ohio is required to pay. Sherrod Brown first said that he did not pay them for 12 years; he is now saying that he made a mistake and that he did finally pay them but only after the State of Ohio took legal action against him.

"The facts are clear: Sherrod Brown didn't pay his taxes. In fact, he didn't pay his taxes for so long that the State of Ohio was forced to take legal action against him to get him to pay what he owed.

"And now the best Sherrod Brown can say is that it was nearly two years that he cheated unemployed Ohio workers out of the money that was due to them.

"C'mon, Sherrod. How many Ohio workers get to pay their tax bill two years late?

"Worse still, he's got the nerve to try to blame the DeWine campaign for his own financial mismanagement. Tuesday his campaign said Sherrod paid his tax bill in 2005. Today, they say, no wait, he only waited until after the state took legal action against him to pay his late tax obligation. Oh, and he says that he must have forgotten to get the lien released that the State had been forced to file against him.

"Do we really need a U.S. Senator who can't even manage his own financial affairs? Can we trust someone who waits for the government to take legal action before he pays his taxes?"

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

"reflect an MSM bias" I do not have any contact with the MSM. My views reflect the opinions of the people I talk to as far as this election. I try to persuade people, but they have been infected by the MSM view, Taft's apparent corruption, Voinovith's wussyness, the coin scandal, etc., etc.. I'm just tellin' you what the popular opinion is in Northfield Center, and it ain't good!

[ohioWfan]

Now you not only need to apologize for your nastiness to me on this thread, but you need to apologize for your rude and vile freepmail to me.

I'm now beginning to wonder about who you really are, Bogus.

Before I just thought you were a pessimist. Now I'm beginning to wonder if you're here to discourage the Republican turnout in Ohio....

[ohioWfan]

Not small any more, but when young they were fans of Winnie the Pooh. :)

It seemed entirely fitting to the gloom expressed........and even more fitting of the disaster called DU.

[onyx]

Rude and vile FR mail?
Send it to the AM.

[ohioWfan]

I'll settle for an apology.

No foul words, just a substitute.......which to me is highly offensive behavior.

[Shooter 2.5]

After November 7th, we have to post a picture of Eeyore to describe the mood of the dems. LOL.

[ohioWfan]

LOL! Here........you can save it until then.......

[Hoodat]

A SENATE Candidate who didn't pay TAXES for TWELVE YEARS???

He'll employ the Harry Reid Defense and blame it on a clerical error.

[McGavin999]

The campaign commercial should be:

Voice: What if you were laid off? (worried looking citizen looking into the camera)

Voice: Unemployment would get you by until you could find another job, right?

Citizen looks relieved

Voice: But not if you worked for Sharrod Brown, he didn't pay his unemployment taxes for 12 years. You'd be out of luck!

Citizen looks shocked, worried, afraid

[ohioWfan]

Perfect! Send it in to Mike DeWine's office! :)

[ohioWfan]

Perfect! Send it in to Mike DeWine's office! :)

[ohioWfan]

I have NO idea how that happened! LOL!

[McGavin999]

Nah, I'm from Arizona, they wouldn't even read it. You can send it if you'd like.

[madison10]

I am just so depressed to hear of Sherrod Brown's plight. (LOL>>>NOT)

[McGavin999]

Add to the bottom of that:

Voice: If he didn't care about his employees, what makes you think he'd care about you?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

You are completely wrong. I'm just more pessimistic than you are. Your comments about me are completely unfounded. Check my history. I just feel that we have lost Ohio this time, and that doesn't bode well for the future for our party in Ohio. Sometimes, when things go wrong, like Taft, it can take a long time to recover. And Ohio was a fairly close race last time. Our President won, but not by that much. I do feel that there were a lot of voting irregularities, all demo bs, in the last election. Like in Wisconsin and Oregon. I have been encouraging all my Republican friends to vote. So,,, you're wrong about me.

[ohioWfan]

I can't be wrong about you because I don't have a settled opinion about you. But your abject pessimism has made me doubt your sincerity. No conclusions....just doubt.

There are plenty of trolls doing exactly what you're doing here..........not saying you are one, just that you're posting like one.

I'm sorry for your pessimism. It must make life tough for you.

I really was trying to help by getting you involved because it WOULD make you more positive if you had a clearer picture of what's really going on out there, and I really would like an apology for your nastiness to me based on your own misunderstanding.

Not expecting it.........just hoping for it.

[ohioWfan]

Ooooooo...........ZING!!!!!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

You'll get no apologies from me at this time. I sincerely hope you're right, and I pray everyday for us to win in Ohio and the nation. You're gung-ho about Ohio, and I'm not. Too many mistakes have been made here. I'm sad about that, because I live here. Nonetheless, Taft is the face of our party in Ohio, and he's been a disaster! Gosh, I wish it were different, but it ain't. No way am I a troll, and I find that accusation offensive. I have to be at work at 7am to rebuild a pump that supplies 1,200 people with water, and I'm tired. But you're wrong about me,,,,,

[ohioWfan]

The apology I hoped for and obviously won't get was your calling my post 'bs' because of your own mistake, and your nasty freepmail that was even worse. It's what I expect of adults on this forum.

btw, I don't want to hear again how negative you are. I'm impervious to the moans of the Eeyores of this world. I have two jobs, four kids and volunteer in at least three places......including political campaigns of great importance. And I make no apology for being an optimist. I was optimistic in 2000, 2002, 2004, and I am again........and look what happened in those elections.

Sorry to disappoint you for not joining your calls to malaise.

(And your entire post proves that you didn't read a single word I said. No wonder you're in a perpetual bad mood......)