The Washington Post is going after the Romney campaign's foot-dragging when it comes to making his tax returns public and with respect to where his campaign dollars are coming from.
“Sometime in the next six months, and prior to the election, Gov. Romney will file and release the 2011 return when there is sufficient information to provide an accurate return,” spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in a statement.
The campaign insisted that Mr. Romney was delaying because some of the companies in which he had invested had yet to report their earnings.
Lousy, indefensible excuse.
This explanation would be a lot more palatable if Mr. Romney had demonstrated any inclination to live up to the standards of most previous presidential candidates...
... Then there is the mystery of Mr. Romney’s bundlers. Candidates such as Mr. McCain, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, among others, voluntarily did the right thing and revealed the identity of these major fundraisers. Mr. Romney, despite the undeniable importance of these individuals, has declined to follow that practice.
Bundlers play a crucial role for political candidates, collecting donations that can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars to fuel campaigns. The candidates know full well to whom they are indebted. Perhaps Mr. Romney can explain why the public isn’t entitled to the same information. ...WaPo
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A Massachusetts voter writes this comment about former governor Romney in the New York Times today:
He did balance the budget (he had to by law) by raising fees and closing loop holes. He did sign universal healthcare into law, but he looted the free care pool to do so, a maneuver that simply moved money for healthcare for the poor from one pot to another. Massachusetts was near the bottom on new job creation, a curious outcome given his repeated boast that he knows how the economy works. He did have the decency to return from his presidential campaigning when a piece of the big dig tunnel fell on a passing motorist, killing her. Or was it a photo-op? It's hard to know what's in the mind of a man wearing a $2,000 suit and a hard hat. ...NYT
Amen.
