Jon Huntsman Sr. Calls On Romney To Release His Tax Returns

[highplainsdem]

Source: TPM

Jon Huntsman Sr. called on Mitt Romney to release his tax returns Friday, complaining that the Republican nominee was not being “fair” with voters.

“I feel very badly that Mitt won’t release his taxes and won’t be fair with the American people,” Huntsman told the Washington Post. He said Romney “ought to square with the American people and release his taxes like any other candidate.”

Huntsman, father of Romney’s primary rival Jon Huntsman Jr., served as Romney’s 2008 finance chair. Some speculated that he might be the source for Harry Reid’s unsubstantiated claim that Romney paid no taxes for 10 years, based on the Utah billionaire’s past close relationship with Romney and his son’s more recent antagonistic one. Huntsman, while echoing Reid’s call for Romney to release his returns, denied to the Post that he was the source, calling the allegation “absolutely false.”

Like Reid, Huntsman noted that Romney’s own father, George Romney, started the modern tradition of releasing tax returns for presidential candidates.

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Read more: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/jon-huntsman-sr-calls-on-romney-to-release-his-tax-returns.php

[hlthe2b]

1. Lends credence to the theory that his son may have been Reid's source.

LOL

[bigdarryl]

2. Romney is FUCKED!!!

[madrchsod]

4. yup.....could`t happen to a more deserving person

[chknltl]

9. Well good for him.

Now don't get me wrong, I am no supporter of the mittster but imo everyone deserves to get laid now and then. Otoh. if said fucking took place unbeknownst to his wife, now THAT would be a fancy horse of another color.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. drip...

it just keeps getting worse
poor mittens

[Chiyo-chichi]

5. Huntsman said that George Romney said to always "PAY" your taxes for at least 10 or 12 years??

Or did he say to "release" your taxes if you are running for president?

Was that a slip?

A dig?

Or what?

Because Huntsman saying that George Romney said to always pay your taxes doesn't make too much sense... unless Mitt didn't.

[chknltl]

6. Romney, Huntsman Sr. and Jr. and the 2002 Olympics.

Don't know if this has been discussed much here but Huntsmsn Jr was a candidate hopeful to the position romney held with the 2002 Olympics. One might suspect there was some bad blood generated here.

From Wall Street Journal:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/07/25/mitt-romney-jon-huntsman-jr-and-the-2002-olympics/

"Mitt Romney often speaks of his successful role in leading the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. He doesn’t talk much about the fact that he wasn’t the first choice for the job. And he doesn’t talk at all about the fact that one of his potential rivals for the gig was Jon Huntsman Jr., who competed against him in the Republican presidential primary.

Mr. Romney was chosen as chief of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in 1999; he was hired to right the ship after members of the bid committee created a scandal by giving lavish gifts to members of the International Olympic Committee in hopes of gaining favor.

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Robert Garff, who chaired the Salt Lake committee at the time, said Mr. Romney ranked about sixth on a list of a dozen potential candidates for the job. With the integrity of the entire effort at stake, Mr. Garff worked with then-Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt to find someone to take the helm. Mr. Leavitt is now a top adviser on the Romney presidential campaign.

Enter Utah billionaire Jon Huntsman Sr., who also sat on the Salt Lake Games’ committee, and had an idea: How about hiring his son, Jon Huntsman Jr., then a former U.S. ambassador to Singapore, for the high-profile gig?" .......

-snip- more at above link

[JoePhilly]

7. Not what you know ... but WHO you know ...

This is particularly true in businesses with Mormon leaders.

And the possibility that there is a rift in the Mormon world between these two powerful families, does little to refute that perception.

[K8-EEE]

8. oh why can't I rec this 1000 times!!!

HUNTSMAN SR. IS DEEP THROAT!

I am so loving this.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. Ahhhh shit! This is getting good now...

Where's my popcorn?

[FailureToCommunicate]

11. Harry Reid's source has gotta be Hunstman Sr.

[AtomicKitten]

12. omg, that's awesome!

[LovingA2andMI]

13. Drip, Drip, Drip....

The kitchen sink is about to overflow for Romney REAL SOON~~~

[Odin2005]

14. The Huntsmans are Mormons.

This makes me suspect even more that Mitt refuses to release his returns because he is not paying enough tithe to the LDS.

[lark]

15. Not so hidden message.....

Release your taxes or else someone else will.