Posted on 05/15/2007 3:54:07 PM PDT by Zakeet
Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday joined three other presidential candidates in seeking to delay the filing of personal financial disclosure reports.
The reports identify the assets, liabilities and sources of income of the candidates and their spouses. Other candidates filed their reports with the Federal Election Commission by Tuesday's deadline. The FEC will make them public within days.
Clinton and former President Clinton are millionaires, according to past disclosure forms. In 2005, the former president made nearly $7.5 million in speaking fees. The couple had a blind trust valued at between $5 million and $25 million and a Citibank account of similar size.
The others who received 45-day extensions are Republicans former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore. McCain had filed a disclosure report earlier this year, but the Federal Election Commission and the Office of Government Ethics concluded that he needed to file anew.
McCain requested the extension, in part, because the ethics office said he needed to disclose holdings in a blind trust in the name of McCain's wife, Cindy. The trust has assets between $500,000 and $1 million.
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In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Democrat John Edwards declined to reveal the amount of money he made working for Fortress Investment Group, a hedge fund that Edwards said he joined to better understand the relationship between wealth and poverty.
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Witch
What are they trying to hide?
Why does John Edwards need to work for a hedge fund to understand the connection between wealth and poverty?
also, I saw Edwards interviewed recently, and was asked how much he earned from the hedge fund. He said that we would learn that when these reports were issued. Now he’s declining to state this on these reports. So much for openness and candor from Mr. Edwards.
I saw that too. Even better was the fact that he said he went to “learn” although he was hired and paid as a “consultant”. What a fraud....
You surely jest? They want to hide everything, white water and stuff like that. That blind trust is supposed to be for charity, they only spent about $1 million on charity.
After years of lawyer legalese and politico speak, common English is no longer his first language ...
If ya' gut money, yer wealthy ... if ya' ain't .. ya' ain't.
Her account statement from her Swiss bank is late.
That hedge fund is operated by a guy worked for Soros’s hedge fund company.
a guy who worked ...sorry
You better watch out. The last person to make that remark wound up in a park with a fatal case of lead poisoning.
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