Hillary Clinton demands Opponent release His Tax Returns- NY Times

[Ichingcarpenter]

Three Months Into His Senate Campaign, Lazio Releases His Tax Returns



By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
Published: August 29, 2000
New York Times



Mr. Lazio pledged to release his tax returns soon after entering the Senate race in May, but had not done so, raising suspicions about whether he had the kind of financial problems that have tripped up other politicians in New York in recent decades.

The campaign of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, criticized the delay, asking whether he was hiding something. The State Democratic Party even sent a young campaign worker dressed as Uncle Sam to Mr. Lazio's campaign events, to shout at him to disclose the returns.


''Rick Lazio can't explain why it took three months to release his taxes,'' said Howard Wolfson, a Clinton campaign spokesman. ''Now he won't come clean with New Yorkers and reveal the real cost of his reckless trillion-dollar tax plan. It's time for Mr. Lazio to stop playing games and start talking straight.''


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EFD61E31F93AA1575BC0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

[MercutioATC]

1. Oh, Nice!

Turnabout is fair play :)

[anigbrowl]

6. Sweeet! AND it comes with Howard Wolfson as a bonus!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

66. This is too rich! Can you say HYPOCRITE! Can't wait to hear the spin on this one.

[Justitia]

85. LOL on the skeevy Wolfson part! -eom

[galadrium]

2. Pot meet kettle

[anonymous171]

3. NOW she is vetted.

Finally.

[Armstead]

4. Hillary "Do as I say not as I do" Clinton

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. This was before Bill made his mega millions n/t

[powergirl]

5. Never underestimate the power of karma n/t

[City Lights]

7. Hillary is a first class hypocrite!

She's too much.

[IsItJustMe]

49. Yes indeed!!! She is an item alright. Her hypocrisy is profound.

[anigbrowl]

8. Good catch, ICC!! Well done!

[Ichingcarpenter]

26. Thanks, this story is starting to get some legs

It was found by a friend.

[Cachonda]

9. Every time Clinton is accused of something, she's found not to have done anything wrong

And those asking for her tax return have no suspicions about her.

[Armstead]

14. Then why hasn;t she done what she told Lazio to do?

[anigbrowl]

17. Congratulations on your first Post. Welcome to DU!

[Cha]

69. Poor Poor little hilary..she sure did something wrong

when she voted for the IWR without reading the fucking 90 page NIE. Was it too strenuous for her? Wasn't her intellect up to it?

[Cha]

10. Good find.."There's just no hypocrisy like Hillary Hypocrisy"!

As one of our astute DUers has pointed out.

[papau]

11. Will Obama release his tax return? so far it is only the summary page that he signed - plus a typed

sheet that he wants us to believe is a summary of the return.

Appears we can't handle the details that may show the Rezko bribes over the last 15 years.

[anigbrowl]

21. Garbage. Here it is - 23 pages

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/files/obama_2006_tax_return.pdf

Rezko bribes my ass. Put up or shut up.

[americanstranger]

25. Heh. Nice.

Gotta defuse the bullshit quick around here. Nice work.

- as

[Blondiegrrl]

32. LOL! He'll release his tax returns as soon as he congratulates Clinton

on her wins from last night.

Oh, wait ...

:evilgrin:

[WVRevy]

74. Exactly

See...he already did BOTH!

[walldude]

78. I have some butter...

might help get your foot out of your mouth... :evilgrin:

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

67. Nice try.

[UndertheOcean]

13. Some Hillary hypocrisy ....

[Sir Jeffrey]

15. Niiiiiiiice find!

[Cachonda]

18. The IRS has the return, and found nothing suspicious

Don't you think the IRS would have began an investigation if it thought Clinton's tax return contained something unusual or illegal?

[anigbrowl]

19. Bwahahahaha!

I'm not accusing her of anything illegal...I just think voters might be interested in giving her an audit of their own. Do you think she tax advantage of any of those Bush tax cuts?

[Cachonda]

22. Obama, Clinton and all rich people took advantage of Bush's tax cuts

Or do you believe the Obama's rejected their tax cuts? If they are within the income bracket that received tax cuts, they took their tax cuts.

[nebula]

28. If Hillary has nothing to hide

then why won't she release her returns, the same way she demanded her opponent to in 2000?

What does she have to hide??

[Ichingcarpenter]

30. She sent a clown to hound her opponent's office

I think this news speaks to who the clown really is.

[KittyWampus]

39. I think it was someone dressed as Uncle Sam

[nebula]

29. How do you know this?

Do you have a link, or are you making it up?


"The IRS has the return, and found nothing suspicious."

[KittyWampus]

38. accepting money from Dubai for lobbying to get their Port Deal isn't illegal, but unethical

considering he's an ex-POTUS and married to an sitting NY Senator.

For instance.

[Ichingcarpenter]

47. That money is what will show up plus

Monies from Bill's 'Non profit" charities

[blm]

61. The Dubai money went through in 2007 so it won't show up any time soon.

They did think THAT far ahead, anyway.

[mod mom]

75. PROBABLY THIS MINING DEAL MONEY( GIUSTRA & KAZAKHSTAN):

After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton

By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: January 31, 2008

Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them.

Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton.

-snip

snip

"Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, whose 19-year stranglehold on the country has all but quashed political dissent."

"Mr. Nazarbayev walked away from the table with a propaganda coup, after Mr. Clinton expressed enthusiastic support for the Kazakh leader’s bid to head an international organization that monitors elections and supports democracy."

-snip

Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which friendship with the former president has its privileges.

LINK:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html

SELLING OUT DEMOCRACY TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER!

[americanstranger]

16. Nice find!

Shoe, meet Other Foot.

- as

[thewiseguy]

20. Send this to the media outlets!

Clinton = Hypocrite

[anigbrowl]

23. Just sent it to Obama HQ

He he

[Ichingcarpenter]

24. Digg this story at Digg.com

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Flashback_Clinton_Demands_Opponent_Release_Tax_Returns

[Shakespeare]

27. Oops.

[Ichingcarpenter]

35. Any idea how many months she has refused to release her tax returns?

She gave him 3 months.

[Altair]

31. That is rich

[amborin]

33. well she should demand his returns, let's see them

[John Q. Citizen]

57. As you like it. Right here. At your service.

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/files/obama_2006_tax_return.pdf

Now how about Hill's tax return.

What's she hiding.

[cali]

87. oh, this is so much fun

Watching hillbots as Obama turns the heat up and as people start digging up shit to throw back at Hilly is sublime.

[NMMatt]

34. Perfect... any one want to attend Hillary events dressed as uncle sam? -nt

[AtomicKitten]

36. Oh, the irony is thick!

thanks for posting :)

[cooolandrew]

37. Intresting...

[tabasco]

40. Many believe H. Clinton when she said she didn't have time to get that info together.

The level of gullibility is frightening.

[Ichingcarpenter]

41. She has had twice the amount of time she gave her opponent

It is the 2006 return not the 2007 return that is being asked for
although both would be nice.

[AZBlue]

42. Hi, Pot? This is Kettle. Hi, um....

[Ichingcarpenter]

43. UPDATE:Wolfson himself dressed up as Uncle Sam to heckle Clinton's rival Rick Lazio

Hillary Clinton's Biggest Backer


By SUSAN DOMINUS
Published: September 17, 2000
New York Times




In recent months, the team has been trying to focus public scrutiny on Lazio. Wolfson himself, along with a Democratic State Committee member dressed as Uncle Sam, showed up at a Lazio event in Harlem in August, taunting Lazio with the first lady's New York property tax returns and challenging him to release his returns. In any other campaign, it might have been the candidate who seized such a photo op; but with his boss invested in preserving her dignity, it occasionally falls to Wolfson to supply those moments.


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEEDB1739F934A2575AC0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

[Ichingcarpenter]

46. Does this surprise anyone that this person did this?

[Jim Lane]

44. There's also the debate issue

In the 2006 Senate race, Clinton had an antiwar challenger in the Democratic primary, Jonathan Tasini. She refused to debate him. The New York Times editorialized:

"She should change her mind. In a year when New York has very few competitive elections, voters are going to get very little chance to hear serious discussions from the candidates. Since Mr. Tasini is running an antiwar campaign, it would be very useful for New Yorkers to have a chance to hear the two Democratic candidates debate that one issue." (, August 21, 2006)

I thought of this when the Clinton campaign was trying to make such a big deal about debates, after she and Obama had been in more than a dozen already. Apparently, whether Democratic primary voters deserve to hear a debate depends on the circumstances.

[Life Long Dem]

45. I'm not surprised. This is the person we are to believe is honest.

[Indenturedebtor]

48. Why am I not at ALL surprised

There's something really ugly in that tax return. We need to keep this story front and center.

[npincus]

50. GREAT FIND!!!!! Kudos!

this belongs in Huffpo... all over the Internets, in fact. :rofl:

[IsItJustMe]

51. Thanks for the post. This is why I come to DU in the first place. Smart people pulling up facts

that you will never see in our glorious msm.

[Bread and Circus]

52. Nice catch...

[RoadRage]

53. Where the HELL are the Clinton supporters now??

Hello????

HELLO??????

Ahh.. Crickets. If it stinks to high hell, then just ignoor it - right?

[berni_mccoy]

54. LOL!

[Life Long Dem]

55. Don't ignore this Hillary supporters. Unless you want McCain.

:kick:

[npincus]

56. HA HA... just sent your link to Huffpo!

great work! :)

[Ichingcarpenter]

58. They only made $400,000 in 2000 but now

you are gonna see the mega millions Bill has made.

This won't even cover the $5,000,000 she loaned to her campaign.

[KittyWampus]

59. yes indeed, Burkle, Gupta, Dubai. Filthy money.

[Wayjose]

62. They are so disgusting. I am appalled at Hillary's hypocrisy

[Barack_America]

71. Filthy money to run a filthy campaign.

Is it any wonder that her campaign literally went in the crapper after she loaned it her tainted money?

Methinks not.

[nell2323]

60. Kick

:kick:

[workinclasszero]

63. OMG! The commercials just write themselves! Show us your tax returns Hillary!!

The campaign of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, criticized the delay, asking whether he was hiding something. The State Democratic Party even sent a young campaign worker dressed as Uncle Sam to Mr. Lazio's campaign events, to shout at him to disclose the returns.:eyes:


Attention Obama team! Another hard hitting commercial against the hypocrite Hillary Clinton is here for the taking!

If there are anymore debates, get the same Uncle Sam guy there to shout at her!:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Barack_America]

70. That is why the GOP would annihilate Clinton.

Fully vetted my ass. It seems that every day they spend in politics another skeleton goes in the closet. The GOP will never run out of material.

[XemaSab]

64. Kick

:)

[tabasco]

65. HILLARY WAS LIKE KEN STARR demanding that info!!!

How awful !!

[Justitia]

86. ROFL! -eom

[workinclasszero]

68. Release your tax returns Hypocrite Hillary! (nt)

[truebrit71]

72. Hypocrite Rodham Clinton....you have been busted...now show us your returns...

...WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?

[Bread and Circus]

73. heh

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

76. Hypocrittary.

[catgirl]

77. And she refused to grant her unknown dem opponent any debates!

He lost because he didn't have the name recognition and couldn't fairly compete
without any debates. Hillary ignored his requests. What a hypocrite.

[Catherine Vincent]

79. Obama supporters and their yapping about Clinton's tax return....

[workinclasszero]

83. Why would Hillary want to hide her tax returns? (nt)

[Catherine Vincent]

88. Check your rabidness. nt

[nlb]

80. LOL

It aint surprising at all. how people cant see through Hillary Clinton, I dont know .

[amborin]

81. Stingy and hypocritical Obama? not very big on charity

once again....can Obama put his money where his mouth is?

literally?

Let's see his tax returns and see what else he's hiding:

The Frontrunner
April 25, 2007 Wednesday
Before 2005, Obama's Charitable Giving Lagged Behind National Average

The Chicago Tribune (4/25, Secter, 617K) reports, "Giving, service and compassion are
but the Democratic presidential contender has only recently dug deep into his own pockets to support charitable causes." Obama "has enjoyed a robust household income throughout his political career in the Illinois Senate and the U.S. Senate.

But for most of that time he has reported comparatively little by national standards in charitable contributions on his tax returns, records released by Obama show." Obama's household income "has been inflated the last two years from the proceeds of lucrative book deals he signed shortly before entering the Senate in 2005. He pledged to turn over $200,000 of the book money to charity." On their "just-filed 2006 tax return, Obama and his wife, a hospital administrator, reported taxable income of $983,626 and claimed deductions for $60,307 in charitable donations.

In 2005 they earned a combined $1.65 million and gave away about $77,300." The "national average for charitable giving has long hovered at 2.2 percent of household income, according to the Glenview-based Giving USA Foundation, which tracks trends in philanthropy. Obama tax returns dating to 1997 show he fell well below that benchmark until 2005, the year he arrived in Washington."

[mod mom]

82. QUESTION: This thread has 53 greatest votes yet it doesn't appear on the Greatest Page

I've been away working on the Obama campaign in Ohio so I might have missed something posted on thi- are they just empty votes like is a thread is moved to the dungeon?

[Justitia]

84. LOL - What a FLAMING HYPOCRITE. -eom

[apocalypsehow]

89. Well, lookee here: a whole thread in GD: P and not a Clinton supporter to be found...I wonder why?

:sarcasm:

:rofl:

[mod mom]

90. They're searching in the rove playbook for a comeback?

[mod mom]

91. kick

[Life Long Dem]

92. Stop her before she stops Obama

This will not come out fast enough. No media so far today on this.They'd be pushing it if it were someone other than Hillary.