Get this- Deval Patrick at 5pm announces tax problems - AP

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/02/01/candidate_deval_patrick_discloses_tax_problems/

Only in MA would this happen with a 24 hr time span

[Mass]

1. So he missed a payment 12 years ago and paid it soon after he got a lien

Did I get it right?

It was certainly the right time to announce that.

[merbex]

3. Yea, right time for Deval but how does the unenrolled voter see this?

[merbex]

2. Can you say Keystone Cops are running Dem campaigns in MA?

Wow

Just wow

Why don't we just wrap up the past 24 hours and give to the Repugs as a gift?

[Ian David]

4. I've been late on my taxes. It was because I was poor.

And I had complicated stuff to file that the guy at H&R Block didn't know how to deal with.

And the IRS was un-helpful.

But mostly because I was poor.

So, he was late? So what?

He disclosed this information himself, and he paid it all off.


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Patrick says this occurred in 1996 and that it was paid off within five months.

He says the lien was triggered by missed payments on a monthly installment agreement he had with the IRS to pay off an "unexpected tax liability" from 1993."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/02/01/candidate_deval_patrick_discloses_tax_problems/

Big Yawn.

[Rockholm]

5. Keep Moving. Nothing to see here.

How convenient, however, for the Reilly people to jump on this.

[TaleWgnDg]

6. I can hear it from the backroom at Patrick's headquarters:

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I can *hear* it from a backroom at Patrick's headquarters:

"HOLY SH*T, GET DEVAL TO REVEAL HIS OWN PAST TAX FRIG-UPS in light of the Boston Globe's dump on state representative Marie St. Fleur. CALL UP THE BOSTON GLOBE AND TELL EM ABOUT IT IMMEDIATELY before Deval makes the front page of the Boston Globe like Marie did! OMG!"

And, so goes politics and the "news media" who love to reveal your inside laundry FIRST! Life as a pol u/ the microscope of 24/7 "news" mills.

Hhhmmmmm, I wonder though. Maybe if Marie St. Fleur had taken a job as a Board of Director of Ameriquest! Or Coca-Cola. Hey. She most likely wouldn't have had all those financial troubles, losing a home to foreclosure, excise tax problems, income tax problems, a possible lien on her present home, student loan ($40,000) problems. Indeed. Maybe, though, Marie, WOULD NOT accept such bilked (Ameriquest) monies from the working class as did Deval Patrick! Yeah. Could that be it? All said and done. Too bad, too, that Patrick CONTINUES to accept such Ameriquest monies! But St. Fleur withdrew her candidacy for Lieutenant Governor.

As I said earlier about Deval Patrick, working class to esteemed positions is hard on ethics. Very hard. However, money is money but reputation is another matter. When to draw the line when food on the table and ethics rear their not too cooperative head. Patrick chose to accept bilked monies from working class people all across America including thousands w/i the Bay State. And he continues to do so.

Indeed.

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Here's a disclaimer for those who believe that I really heard that from Patrick's campaign office. It's only my best educated political guess. I'll bet that I'm correct though about Patrick's rationale for contacting the BosGlobe to reveal his own frig-up in taxes due to the Globe's revealing St. Fleur's. Sure. Tis far better to step up to the microphone and said "I did it" particularly if the other "guy" has been caught with "his pants down." It's an attempt to disfuse a volatile problem. Lawyers use it all the time.
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