Romney Campaign Attacked Opponent For Refusing To Release Tax Returns In 2002

[MindMover]

Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney has seen pressure mount from both Democrats and Republican pundits to release his tax returns. Romney has maintained that he is “simply not enthusiastic” about giving Democrats “hundreds or thousands of more pages to pick through, distort, and lie about.”

But in 2002, during his first run for Governor Romney attacked his opponent Shannon O’Brien for not releasing her husband’s tax returns.

Romney said he declined to release his tax returns on a “principled position” saying it one debate “I value my privacy.” The Romney campaign accused O’Brien, who released her tax returns every year since 1998, of being disingenuous by releasing her but not her husband's returns, a former lobbyist who had worked with Enron.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/romney-campaign-attacked-opponent-for-refusing-to#HTWF2

[progressivebydesign]

1. Wait... He attacked his opponent for not releasing her SPOUSES returns, but he did not release his??

Wow... sounds like this is an ongoing issue for Romney.

[HopeHoops]

2. He's good at those kind of a-tax.

[tanyev]

5. How did this guy get elected governor?

[Heywood J]

7. Boston wasn't the most progressive city I've ever experienced,

but Romney was the butt or punchline of most jokes when I was there, the second half of his term. He seemed to be out-of-state more often than actually working.

[maddezmom]

3. and the hits keep coming

[LiberalFighter]

4. He says it is an issue of privacy.

But he forgets that privacy is limited when one wants to be a PUBLIC servant.

[Kteachums]

6. He doesn't have to do anything is that his theory?

Well, well what is fair for one is not fair for another!