Clinton says 'not yet' to releasing tax returns

[jefferson_dem]

Clinton says 'not yet' to releasing tax returns
Posted at 4:25 PM
by James Oliphant

Despite pressure from Sen. Barack Obama, the Clinton campaign said Friday that it wouldn't not release Sen. Hillary Clinton's tax returns unless she secures the Democratic nomination.

The news was greeted by harsh rejoinder from Obama's campaign “Why should Democratic voters have to wait until after the primary campaign is over to find out important information about Senator Clinton's finances that Senator Obama has already disclosed?" said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor.

"For someone who claims to be fully vetted, hiding a campaign loan from voters until after Super Tuesday and refusing to release your tax returns until after the primary doesn't seem like the best way to prove that there are no surprises for the Republicans to find once they start digging,” Vietor said.

Vietor was referring to Clinton's revelation this week that she had loaned $5 million from her personal monies to her campaign. The elephant in the room, of course, is the fortune amassed by former President Clinton from speaking fees, book royalties, and his other business endeavors, and whether Hillary Clinton will tap into that money if the gap between her resources and Obama's persists.

Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson referred reporters to Clinton's Senate disclosure forms, which lists sources of income for both Hillary and Bill Clinton and provides some information about the value of their investments. The most recent one covers 2006. On her financial disclosure, Clinton said their combined net worth was somewhere around $10 million to $25 million.

Wolfson again said that it was Obama who was not being forthcoming, saying the Illinois senator still hadn't revealed the full nature of his ties to indicted Chicago real estate developer and fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/clinton_says_not_yet_to_releas.html

[Thrill]

1. She doesn't want you to follow the money trail. Its not pretty

At least not until the Dems no longer have a choice

[H2O Man]

2. Thank you.

Nominated.

[neutron]

4. Why did Obama take money from Nuclear interests and then

sell his district down the river with a weak bill?

People in his district were finding Radioactivity in their drinking water
from the Nuke Plant.
After they paid Obama hundreds of thousands of dollars, he DILUTED
the bill down to nothing.

[H2O Man]

9. Perhaps

you have confused me with someone else.

[mtnsnake]

3. The last sentence of the article of the part you posted says it all, the Obama-Rezko connection

Wolfson again said that it was Obama who was not being forthcoming, saying the Illinois senator still hadn't revealed the full nature of his ties to indicted Chicago real estate developer and fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko.

[Bread and Circus]

5. K, let's do it. All Rezko info on the table and all of Clinton's tax and "sordid" relationships on..

the table. I'd love for Obama to come clean. I'd love for Clinton to come clean too.

All of it, both sides...

[jefferson_dem]

6. It does say it all. ...It shows all the ClintonInc camp has left is duck and deflection.

n/t

[jenmito]

7. Do they REALLY want to go back to the Rezko situation? I think that's a can of worms she may not

want to open. Obama agrees to debates that she asked for yet she refuses HIS request to release her tax return? I hope he brings this up at the next debate SHE requested.

[my3boyz]

8. Her decision on this should make Dean or some of those

Super Delegates scratch their heads and wonder what she is hiding. Do they really want one of her secrets to pop out just before the General Election?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. The people in the IRS office know what is in the tax returns

or maybe there weren't any tax returns, oh oh!