Posted on 07/18/2012 6:43:04 AM PDT by xzins
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry on Tuesday reaffirmed his position that candidates should be forthcoming with their tax documentation, finding himself again at odds with Mitt Romney, his party's presumptive presidential nominee.
Perry first called on Romney to release his tax returns when running for the GOP presidential nomination, and in late January, Romney released his records for 2010 and an estimate of his liability for tax year 2011. He has since said that he does not intend to release additional years, as Democrats - and an increasing number in his own party - have called for.
Perry addressed the issue when asked by a reporter in Austin on Tuesday.
"I'm a big believer that no matter who you are or what office you're running for, you should be as transparent as you can be with your tax returns and other aspects of your life so that people have the appropriate ability to judge your background and what have you," he said.
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"I certainly think it is inappropriate for the president of the United States to not keep his college transcript and his law school transcript public," he continued. "He should make those available."
Perry ...in January ...
"Mitt, we need for you to release your income tax so the people of this country can see how you made your money," he said. "Listen, here's the real issue for us: as Republicans, we cannot fire our nominee in September. We need to know now. So I hope you'll put your tax records out there this week so the people of South Carolina can take a look and decide if, you know, we've got a flawed candidate or not."
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On Tuesday, Romney said in an interview that Democrats would use the records to "distort" him.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Can you say "Conspiracy to Defraud"?. I knew you could.
” - - - “I certainly think it is inappropriate for the president of the United States to not keep his college transcript and his law school transcript public,” he continued. “He should make those available.”
Duh, I can’t believe that the most “transparent” of all has sealed his school documents.
What is “TRANSPARENT” Obama trying to hide?
I do see the school reference but dont see the ff cover up?
Perry should realize his great state of Texas is turning into a battleground state as HE oversees the conquest.
New York went for Reagan. Now a pro life republican can’t even get on a republican ticket in NY.
It can happen and it is happening.
Obama is playing 60 second prime time network spots in July in Texas and often.
Perry is an idiot.
I just don't think he is always tuned in to his surroundings. Remember how he got confused and made excuses about being tired, et cet...
IMHO, Governor Romney should offer this deal:
“I will release 10 years of my tax returns the day AFTER President Obama “un-seals” ALL the official records he has ordered “sealed”. Those 10 years of copies of my tax returns are already boxed up and ready to go.
I am making this offer because I believe that American voters have a right to know about whatever it is in his past that President Obama is trying so hard to keep secret from us.
Did he flunk Economics in college? Well, we could have guessed that.
Did he receive a preferential college scholarship because he claimed — falsely — to be a “foreign” student? Many people think so.
Was he a drug-pusher as well as a drug-user in college? You know, selling drugs is a felony. A REAL felony. Is THAT Obama’s big secret?
For the record, I am willing to open up 10 years of my tax returns — provided that President Obama actually does open up his own super-secret files. Let me be clear: A promise to “un-seal” whatever he has hidden on some day in the far, far future is unacceptable. A partial release now of some carefully selected records is unacceptable. Americans have grown tired of hearing one self-serving “story” after another. It is time to learn the whole truth.
So, President Obama, when may I expect your acceptance of this good-faith offer of MUTUAL disclosure?”
Actually, I heard that here on Free Republic in the last 2 days. I think it was from an article.
Of course he should release them. But the GOP Elite nominated a feckless fool. I don’t care what’s in the Returns, it is not going to be as bad as what they are going to speculate is in them. besides, be a man. Release them, take the hit and stand up for yourself. However, manhood is anathema to the pathetic Romney.
Santorum 2012
I'm thinking Santorum may be the not-so-surprising pick.
One can only hope that Romney and his team strategized his response not to release his records. Apparently, Perry disagrees with that strategy.
We know that team Obama could give a rip about earning money in the capitalist system. That argument got Gingrich to back off because conservatives gave him grief over it. But Obama isn’t talking to conservatives. He knows he’s not getting any of them, anyway.
He hasn’t been talking class envy for 2 years because he thinks it’s ineffective. He talking to a whole base of people out there who listen to it.
So, Romney team has made the right call or the wrong call.
1. They think keeping this as the discussion point instead of focusing on the economy has some payoff.
2. They think that releasing the records would be worse than keeping the topic off the economy.
3. They think this will die out.
4. Perhaps they think it’s a way to focus on Obama’s not releasing his records.
Whatever the answer, time will tell if it’s the right strategy.
As mentioned, Perry disagrees with it.
What part is wrong...the “paybacks are hell” part?
Could be.
But, Perry is saying that he believes record release is the right thing SO THAT the party can determine if the problems are fatal prior to the convention.
My guess is that Holder can gain access to them if he hasn’t already, and that if there’s anything fatal in them that it will be leaked AFTER the convention.
Perry is probably right. We really need to remember that Romney is not the only one with a copy of Romney’s records. Whether IRS, Treasury, Justice, etc., we should be remembering that Obama appointed all those directors.
The Washington Post runs an extensive comments operation on almost all its news stories. One of the best things about their site is that it is only lightly monitored although they have a robo-editor that snags all the nasty words. Today their comments on just one story ~ about Republican concern about Mitt not releasing tax records ~ is rapidly rising toward 5,000 comments ~ see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-or-without-tax-return-release-pressure-on-romney-ramps-up-from-both-sides/2012/07/17/gJQAbuuBsW_story.html?hpid=z3 And they aren’t all Conservatives and Leftwingtards either.
I’m thinking Santorum may be the not-so-surprising pick.
Can we be so lucky.....We actually don’t deserve such a great conservative. However, if Romney picks him and then drops out, I would be thrilled....lol.
I’m thinking that Obama was speaking of the Hispanic vote when he mentioned Texas would soon be in play.
Perry knows teeth pulling when he sees it.
You say it’s all politics?
Then Obama can justify the cover up of his personal docs, and Myther can justify burying his docs, particularly the Bain wealth, because it’s all politics?
Both these guys need to open their mouth.
Obama knows thers nothing inappropriate in Romney’s tax records.
When Mcnuts asked Romney for his tax records and Romney gave him 20 years worth of back taxes and found nothing inappropriate in them.
The tax gig by Obama&Co is just a ploy to keep away talking points of Obama’s failed term.
Doesn’t surprise me. Team Obama has been building to this for 2 years. They calculated correctly that Romney would emerge the nominee.
The electorate is prepared to stick it to the rich aristocrat. It’s all part of the plan. The entertainment section will be running with it in their sitcoms this fall.
But Romney thinks its worse to release them than to refuse to release.
However, there were those who focused in on LUNCH. By claiming her travel to Anchorage was actually to Wasilla, although her office was in Anchorage, she got to claim lunch in Wasilla even on days when she was actually in Anchorage.
That was really small time stuff, and considering the fact Alaska has an official capital and the state is really run out of Anchorage, it's highly probable that no matter how she handled lunch ~ in Wasilla, in Anchorage, or that other place ~ good old what's it's name ~ she would have claimed a price higher than believed responsible.
I looked into what her taco lunch cost. There are several fast food restaurants in Anchorage that have web sites. What it came down to was unless she ate seafood tacos, she'd have to pay a minimum of $15 for two tacos and a coke!
Seafood was cheap by 48'standards of course, but how many crab tacos can you eat in a week?
The MSM and the Democrat hassle-ists went after her on her lunch.
Can you imagine what they'll do with Romney's older tax filings!
Makes even me shudder!
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