Senator Clinton, however, has refused to release her
joint income tax returns until after she were to be
nominated by the Democratic Party. When queried about
this by Tim Russert during the Cleveland debate,
Clinton was evasive and downright clumsy in her
explanation. She told the nation that she hardly has
time to sleep, let alone deal with a tax return. Are
we to believe that Senator Clinton needs time to get
her calculator out and do her own tax returns, as Bill
sits by her side?
No, Senator Clinton is not releasing her tax returns
because there is obviously something in them that she
doesn't want to come out until -- and if -- she gets
the nomination. People who worry about a ticking
bombshell should sure be worried about that one,
because she could release them now with one phone call
to the accountants. The Clintons have gone from being
millions of dollars in debt when they left office to
having assets estimated up to $50 million now. And
Bill is off receiving commissions on some financial
dealings with shady world leaders and financiers. When
will we know the details about these transactions?
Since Senator Clinton lent her campaign $5 million,
did some of the money come from Bill's "rainmaker"
fees?
Well, Senator Clinton, as transparent and as vetted as
she claims to be, isn't telling us.
Then there is the second issue of the incestuous
relationship between contributors to Bill Clinton's
library and charitable funds. It is rumored that he
has accepted money from at least some foreign
contributors who might be seeking favorable
relationships in a Hillary Clinton administration.
When asked about why these contributors are not
revealed, Senator Clinton pulls a rope-a-dope and
claims that it is a decision that is up to Bill, as if
she is powerless to influence him. Once again, where
is the transparency? If there is nothing to hide, why
is it being hidden?
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/056
--- Rob Harrington <Eamon1916@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From her tax records to her White House records...
> Sen Clinton keeps us in the dark...
>
>
>
> During a recent MSNBC debate, Senator Clinton
> was asked if she would release her tax returns. She
> answered, “Well, I
> will do it as others have done it, upon becoming the
> nominee or even
> earlier.†But the very next day, her campaign
> backtracked, saying, “As
> is customary, as the Democratic nominee Sen. Clinton
> will release her
> tax information in April at tax time.â€
> But waiting until April is not customary. In
> the 2004 Democratic primary, Governor Dean, Rep.
> Kucinich, Senator
> Lieberman, and Senator Edwards released their tax
> returns in April of
> 2003 â€" a full year earlier in the primary process.
> Senator Kerry
> released his tax returns in December of 2003, and
> General Clark
> released his tax returns in January of 2004.
> Senator Clinton’s refusal to make this very
> basic disclosure has raised a number of eyebrows
> among advocates for
> increased transparency. As her top Ohio supporter
> Governor Ted
> Strickland said in his 2006 campaign, if a candidate
> is not releasing
> his or her “tax return, what is he hiding? We
> should question what’s
> going on.â€
> Senator Clinton should explain why she believes
> voters in the upcoming primaries shouldn’t have
> access to the same
> information as voters in the general election.
> Senator Obama has made a practice of releasing
> his tax returns (the summary and the schedules),
> because he believes
> that after seven years of secrecy from the Bush
> Administration, we need
> increased transparency in our government. Allowing
> voters to evaluate
> this information is good for the process, but this
> is particularly true
> when a candidate decides to use his or her own
> personal fortunes to
> fund their campaign, which Senator Clinton did when
> she loaned her
> campaign $5 million.
> Senator Clinton’s refusal to release her tax
> returns is part of a pattern of secrecy that has
> imbued her campaign
> and raises questions about the sort of change she
> would be willing and
> able to bring to Washington.
> Equally troubling is the fact that three years
> after Senator Clinton said all the record in the
> Clinton library would
> be available, less than 300,000 of the 78 million
> documents have been
> released.
> In the debate, Senator Clinton tried to cast
> some of the blame on the White House for the delayed
> release of her
> records, saying, “Now, also, President Bush claims
> the right to look at
> anything that is released, and I would urge the Bush
> White House to
> move as quickly as possible.†But White House
> Press Secretary Dana
> Perino said that Clinton representatives have known
> since Jan. 31 that
> the documents â€" Senator Clinton's daily public
> schedule during her
> husband's presidency â€" have been deemed ready for
> public release by the
> National Archives. “To my knowledge, we have not
> been contacted by Mrs.
> Clinton or anyone else about moving more quickly
> with the review and
> release of Clinton material, specifically, her
> schedules.â€
> Senator Clinton’s misleading answers andrefusal to
> release her taxes and her White House records speak
> to thefundamental choice facing voters in this
> election â€" more of the sameWashington games or
> change the American people can believe in.
> Slainte,
> Rob Harrington
>
>
>
>
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