Posted on 07/25/2002 4:03:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:41:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
After staring into more tax schedules, statements and attachments than an H&R Block preparer sees on April 14, I was left with one big question about Bill Simon's tax returns: What took him so long to disclose them?
The Republican candidate for governor, under unrelenting pressure from Gov. Gray Davis and a good deal of sniping from members of his own party, rented the Santa Barbara Room at the Hyatt Regency Sacramento, made a tidy sum for a local copying store and turned over two fat books of returns to any reporter curious enough to want to see them.
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But if Davis can turn the campaign into a debate on Simon's finances or his record as a businessman, the governor wins. So far, with a little help from Simon, he seems to be succeeding in doing just that.
The constant in this equation is Davis' poor performance as a govenor. If Simon just blitzes the airwaves with reminders of Davis' failings as govenor, the finance issue would be deminshed or entirely rendered inconsequential.
Simon needs to push Davis back on his heels. That is, get Davis on the defensive and defend his record as govenor.
Geez even Weintraub is acting like a dork , has the mindset of the rest of the journalistic crowd!
That lowers my opinion of him!
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I bet that Simon, being inexperienced in politics, simply figured that he'd be tarred as being in the "wealthiest one percent" and didn't want to give ammunition to the likes of Davis and Mulholland. If his charitable deductions tend toward Catholic charities, I wouldn't put it past Davis to try to claim that Simon isn't incluuuuuuuusive, or that he's a religious extreeeeeeeemist.
-PJ
Bill Simon is not as "new" or inexperienced to politics as the press make him out to be. His father was Treasury Secretary in the Nixon Administration. Bill Simon has been on the board of the Heritage Foundation for several years. He certainly has as much or more political experience as those of us who get our politics from the news, FR and Rush.
The cheap stunt that the rat hacks inside the IRS pulled with KPMG isn't something you plan for. All in all it looks like Simon made the right decision
It's just like the cheap stunt the hacks inside the Pentagon pulled on Linda Tripp.
-PJ
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