Obama camp again calls for Clinton to release tax returns, cites Bill's investment in troubling firm

[TeamJordan23]

From the Obama campaign:

The latest reason why Senator Clinton should immediately release her tax returns

Today we learned that one of President Clinton’s investments, a Brazilian Renewable Energy Company known as Brenco, was found to have employees “suffering from hunger and cold, and all of the locations were overcrowded and with terrible sanitary conditions.” But while the President himself says these conditions are “deeply troubling,” voters don’t have a clear sense of how much President Clinton has invested in Benco. This is a simple question that can be answered with a simple act – Senator Clinton releasing their FULL tax returns.

Though her campaign has tried to kick the issue down the road, Democratic voters deserve to know, right now, why it is she is hiding the information in her tax returns from last year.

Clinton Link in Brazil Ethanol Probe
Associated Press

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — A team from Brazil’s Labor Ministry found “degrading” living conditions for 133 sugarcane workers employed by an ethanol company whose investors include former President Clinton and other high-profile financial players. At five sites inspected, workers “complained they were suffering from hunger and cold, and all of the locations were overcrowded and with terrible sanitary conditions,” according to a statement issued Friday by Jaqueline Carrijo, who led the inspections last month. The target of the probe, Brazil Renewable Energy Co., known as Brenco, apologized over the weekend and said it is fixing the problems at its rural operations, which turn sugarcane into ethanol. Clinton’s connection is via an investment in Brenco by The Yucaipa Cos., a U.S.-based fund in which Clinton was a senior advisor until last year. His investment in Brenco is valued between $15,001 and $50,000, according to a financial dislosure report submitted last year by his wife, presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jeHsuoT1eKJDwq3l2kU9GqHm5vVAD8VASI300

FLASHBACK: Clinton’s Efforts on Ethanol Overlap Her Husband’s Interests
New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28ethanol.html?sq=clinton%20and%20ethanol&st=nyt&scp=2&adxnnlx=1205241263-VugKz2%20f%20SrBYV6DBbZVdg&pagewanted=print

http://thepage.time.com/obama-campaign-memo-on-clinton-investments/

[BobRossi]

1. She is pulling a bush.

If you ignore them long enough, fiction becomes fact.

[invictus]

2. Obviously the Clintons have much to hide. n/t

[John Q. Citizen]

3. This is good. Clinton needs to quit hiding facts about herself from the voters.