Posted on 03/11/2008 6:53:22 AM PDT by seanmerc
After weeks of intense pressure, and more than a year after announcing her presidential candidacy, Sen. Hillary Clinton has offered little explanation for why she has delayed releasing the tax returns made public by most other Democratic presidential candidates in recent years.
"What is the holdup?" said Sheila Krumholz of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit group that tracks the role of money in politics. "She hasn't exactly made it clear as to what process is making it so cumbersome to just release them."
Past Democratic presidential candidates have set a precedent for releasing their tax returns before or during the primary season. Sen. John Kerry released his in December of 2003, and former Vice President Al Gore's were in the public domain while he was in office. Clinton's opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, released his 2006 return last April.
"This is a level of disclosure the American people have come to expect and deserve from those in the White House, or those who aspire to the White House," said Mary Boyle of Common Cause, a government reform advocacy group.
The pressure on Clinton to release her tax returns has been intensifying since it was revealed that she loaned her campaign $5 million in January. Clinton had repeatedly stated that she would release her tax returns upon becoming the Democratic nominee, but her spokesman Howard Wolfson said last week that the campaign now planned to release the returns "in or around April 15." Wolfson did not respond to requests for comment for this story.
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That’ll give her some time to doctor them.
What’s the hold up? She’s a Klinton . Thats the hold up.
I was going to say, she can’t doctor those that the IRS would officially release,
but then,
I thought about all the Clinton detractors that mysteriously got audited during the 90’s.
Maybe she can’t find them...?
The Clintons are hiding Bill’s windfall $700,000 stock deal.
Probably hidden behind the Rose Law Firm records and the health care “reform” files...
That was my first thought, as well. They're probably calling in markers and making offers to people so they'll prop the documents up when they get scrutinized.
That was my first thought, as well. They're probably calling in markers and making offers to people so they'll prop the documents up when they get scrutinized.
That was my first thought, as well. They're probably calling in markers and making offers to people so they'll prop the documents up when they get scrutinized.
That was my first thought, as well. They're probably calling in markers and making offers to people so they'll prop the documents up when they get scrutinized.
My guess is that she won’t release them before the nomination is decided. No law says she must..they will stonewall as long as they can. Bill will never release the list of donors to his museum of lust.
She will ONLY release THIS YEAR’S TAX RETURN!!!! There will be MEGA bucks going to charity and Churches...mark my words.
Maybe she doesn’t have to file...
Et tu, ABC?
You’d almost think she has something to hide. /s
What’s the holdup?
You’re kidding, right?
It took her three years to find her Rose Law Firm billing records and they were right under her nost.
Duh.
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