ABC: THE CLINTON TAX RETURNS: What's the Holdup?

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The Clinton Tax Returns: What's the Holdup?
Pressure Is High for Clinton to Release Her Tax Returns Since She Loaned Her Campaign $5 Million


By AVNI PATEL
March 10, 2008


After weeks of intense pressure, and more than a year after announcing her presidential candidacy, Sen. Hillary Clinton has offered little explanation for why she has delayed releasing the tax returns made public by most other Democratic presidential candidates in recent years.

What is the holdup?" said Sheila Krumholz of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit group that tracks the role of money in politics. "She hasn't exactly made it clear as to what process is making it so cumbersome to just release them."

Past Democratic presidential candidates have set a precedent for releasing their tax returns before or during the primary season. Sen. John Kerry released his in December of 2003, and former Vice President Al Gore's were in the public domain while he was in office. Clinton's opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, released his 2006 return last April.

"This is a level of disclosure the American people have come to expect and deserve from those in the White House, or those who aspire to the White House," said Mary Boyle of Common Cause, a government reform advocacy group.

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[rndmprsn]

1. the question is: what do they have to hide? K&R

[mod mom]

2. Especially when she made an issue of it with an opponent during her senate race:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5016731

DO HER SUPPORTERS REALLY BELIEVE SHE SHOULD BE HELP TO A SPECIAL STANDARD?

[City Lights]

8. All signs point to yes. eom

[Jersey Devil]

3. She is waiting for the ink to dry on them

No way she'll release them on April 15 as promised. No one will see them until the last primary is over if at all.

[Medusa]

4. So why won't she release 2000-2006?

Surely the "ink" must be dry on those.

[Jersey Devil]

5. I know that - it's the old razzle dazzle

A lot of people are probably confused thinking it is the 2007 return she is talking about releasing on 4/15 but of course we political junkies realize she is just screwing around looking to get deeper into the primary season without releasing them. After 4/15 the heat will go up on her when people realize what is going on but I still don't think she'll release them, reasoning that the damage that will be done by refusing to release them is less than the damage that will be done answering questions if they are released.

[Melinda]

6. She'll release 2007; it's 2006 and even earlier we'd like to see. Dubai, Saudi, Chinese, and

other similar earnings won't be on the 2007 return -- they have made certain of that.

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. I'll second, third, & fourth that....it only adds to the suspicions that

she's hiding something? Get it over with already.