“Republicans call Romney tax return squabble a distraction”
....Arizona Sen. John McCain, who endorsed Romney in January, said releasing a decade’s worth of personal tax information wasn’t necessary for a presidential candidate. Democrats often point out Romney disclosed several years of returns to McCain’s own presidential campaign in 2008 during the vice presidential vetting process.
“He gave that to me and it was confidential, and so did a lot of other people,” McCain said on the CBS program “Face the Nation.”
“We agreed with everybody we considered that would remain confidential. John Kerry only introduced two years, Mitt Romney did, I did, two years is sufficient. And frankly, I’m not sure that’s the key issue Americans are worried about,” McCain said.
Priebus also pointed to presidential campaigns of the past, saying Romney would eventually follow the same precedent.
“The type of the rigorous financial disclosure requirements when running for president are so expansive and vast that if you were to look at what John Kerry, John McCain, all of these other presidential candidates have revealed, Mitt Romney is going to do the same thing,” Priebus said.....
TICK-TOCK....
“He gave that to me and it was confidential, and so did a lot of other people,” McCain said on the CBS program “Face the Nation.”
“We agreed with everybody we considered that would remain confidential. John Kerry only introduced two years, Mitt Romney did, I did, two years is sufficient. And frankly, I’m not sure that’s the key issue Americans are worried about,” McCain said."
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I guess those are the "club" rules -- they can look but we can't.