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Great work by everybody who pushed to get the oppo out there on this.
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jenni Lee <[email protected]>
wrote:
> *WASHINGTON POST**, WASHINGTON TIMES, NEW YORK OBSERVER COLUMNIST CALL ON
> CINDY MCCAIN TO RELEASE TAX RETURNS*
>
> * *
>
> *Washington Post Editorial: Mrs. McCain's Refusal*
> *The wife of an ethics-and-transparency crusader seeking the presidency
> shouldn't shield her tax filings.*
>
> Wednesday, May 14, 2008
>
>
>
> LINK<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302733.html>to editorial.
>
>
>
> "IT WON'T DO." That was our bottom line in 1984 when Rep. Geraldine
> Ferraro<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Geraldine+Ferraro?tid=informline>of New York, Democratic vice presidential candidate, balked at releasing her
> husband's income tax returns. Ms. Ferraro ultimately relented. It was our
> bottom line four years ago, when Teresa Heinz Kerry<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Teresa+Heinz+Kerry?tid=informline>,
> wife of the Democratic nominee, refused to release her returns; Ms. Kerry
> relented as well. And it is just as apt now with regard to Cindy McCain<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Cindy+McCain?tid=informline>'s
> tax returns.
>
>
>
> For a candidate who puts a premium on transparency and ethics, John McCain<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/John+McCain?tid=informline>has been slow and grudging in releasing tax information. He did not commit
> to doing so until after he had secured the nomination, and then he disclosed
> only two years of taxes, far less than his Democratic rivals. Mr. McCain's
> wife, the heir to a liquor and beer distributorship, declined to release her
> returns, citing -- as Ms. Heinz Kerry did -- her children's privacy.
> Releasing tax information entails intrusion, but, as we wrote four years
> ago, presidential candidates and their spouses "relinquish a significant
> measure of privacy. Meanwhile, tax returns provide information not contained
> in financial disclosure forms, such as charitable contributions and the use
> of tax shelters." For Mrs. McCain to say, as she did on NBC<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/NBC+Universal+Inc.?tid=informline>'s
> "Today" show this week, that she would never release her tax returns, not
> even if she were to become first lady, is unacceptable. "This is a privacy
> issue," she said. "My husband is the candidate."
>
>
>
> *The candidate should get his wife to reconsider. The last thing the
> country needs in a new president is more secrecy.*
>
> * *
>
> * *
>
> *Washington Times Editorial: Cindy McCain's 'privacy' charade*
>
> May 14, 2008**
>
>
>
> LINK<http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080514/EDITORIAL/702074707/1013>to editorial.
>
>
> Cindy McCain refuses to release her tax returns. This is not just a
> questionable political decision that threatens to haunt her husband's
> campaign for the next six months. It is also the wrong decision. Mrs. McCain
> needs to change her mind and release the returns as quickly as possible. How
> Republican John McCain, the presumptive presidential nominee who rightly
> fancies himself the king of transparency on Capitol Hill, and his campaign
> strategists can permit this open sore to fester is unimaginable.
>
> As the chairman of the Anheuser-Busch distributorship Hensley & Co., which
> her father founded, Mrs. McCain is an heiress whose income and assets will
> directly benefit from the tax policies espoused by her husband. Mr. McCain
> would also benefit. Taxpayers and voters are entitled to know how much these
> benefits will be.
>
> With a net worth estimated in the range of $100 million, Mrs. McCain would
> directly benefit from her husband's pledge to permanently extend the top
> income-tax rate of 35 percent (which was lowered from 39.6 percent in 2001),
> the top capital gains tax rate of 15 percent (which was lowered from 20
> percent in 2003) and the top dividend tax rate of 15 percent (which was
> lowered from 38.6 percent in 2003). Mr. McCain opposed those cuts in 2001
> and 2003, but now wants to make them permanent. The McCains may also derive
> great benefit from his promise to completely eliminate the individual
> alternative minimum tax. Until she releases her tax returns, voters cannot
> know for certain.
>
> Moreover, during a crucial period of the Republican nomination contest —
> from last August (after Mr. McCain's campaign had collapsed financially)
> through February (when its remarkable political rebound effectively clinched
> the Republican nomination) — Mrs. McCain used accoutrements of her wealth to
> keep her husband's campaign literally "in the air," traveling from one
> campaign stop to another.
>
> Many of those photos you saw of Mr. McCain carrying his own luggage through
> airports during that seven-month period were snapped after he disembarked
> from the corporate jet owned by the company headed by his wife. According to
> an exhaustive analysis by the New York Times, Mr. McCain complied with
> federal law regarding the use of the plane. But he uncharacteristically
> exploited a massive loophole that the Federal Election Commission has been
> trying to close. That loophole allowed Mr. McCain to fly relatively
> inexpensively. The law, whose loophole specifically exempted aircraft owned
> by a candidate's family or by a company it controls, enabled the campaign to
> use that jet as a charter plane while paying much cheaper first-class fares
> and indulge in a subsidy.
>
> *Mrs. McCain needs to end the "privacy" charade and release her tax
> returns.*
>
>
>
>
> Show Us Your 1040, Mrs. McCain! by Joe Conason<http://www.observer.com/author/joe-conason>,
> New York Observer
>
> May 13, 2008
>
>
>
> LINK <http://www.observer.com/2008/show-us-your-1040-mrs-mccain> to
> column.
>
>
>
> *Double standards are endemic in American journalism. But Cindy McCain,
> wife of the Republican presidential candidate, displayed poor taste in
> flaunting her family's special immunity from press scrutiny.* Declaring on
> NBC's *Today* that she would "never" release her income tax returns even
> if she becomes first lady, the Arizona beer heiress showed no concern that
> she and her husband will have to meet the same tests as other would-be White
> House occupants—ever.
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, the arrogance of Mrs. McCain is probably well founded.
>
>
>
> While her personal net worth is estimated somewhere north of $50 million,
> she can surely rely upon the discretion of right-wing media organizations
> and commentators, which so far have given her and her husband a free pass on
> the income tax question. In contrast to their unrelenting demands for
> absolutely complete disclosure by Bill and Hillary Clinton over alleged or
> suspected conflicts of interest, the so-called conservative media have
> remained mum about Mrs. McCain.
>
>
>
> That silence similarly contrasts with the hell raised four years ago over
> Teresa Heinz Kerry's reluctance to reveal her tax returns alongside those of
> her spouse, the Democratic presidential nominee and senator, John Kerry.
> Back then *The Weekly Standard* ran a smirking headline calling her Mr.
> Kerry's "sugar mommy" for a column that salivated over the "lavish
> lifestyle" and "vacation homes" to which her tax returns would draw
> attention. The *Standard* editors didn't even pretend to any substantive
> concern. They just wanted to play the politics of envy and elitism.
>
>
>
> But the *National Review*'s editors cited weightier reasons for curiosity,
> including the very size of the Heinz Kerry holdings and the use of her money
> to finance her husband's presidential campaign, "at least in its bleaker
> moments," as well as the "potential … for conflicts (or the perception of
> conflicts) of interest." So did *The Wall Street Journal*, in an editorial
> that said the Kerrys would be "the richest couple ever to live in the White
> House. … Their assets should be disclosed to the voters so that they can
> assess whether there are any potential conflicts of interest." The same
> editorial noted that since Senator Kerry was proposing to raise taxes on
> higher income brackets, "most people would probably like to know whether the
> Kerry household uses tax-avoidance techniques to avoid paying its 'fair
> share.'"
>
>
>
> These partisan sleuths could scarcely contain their outrage when Mrs.
> Kerry, who had inherited the ketchup fortune of her late husband, John
> Heinz, cited the privacy of her children as an excuse to resist disclosure.
> "Privacy? Oh, come off it," scoffed the *Review*. "How can disclosure of
> any part of Mrs. Kerry's personal 1040 relate to her children, all of whom
> are now in their thirties?"
>
>
>
> Now comes Mrs. McCain, whose case suspiciously resembles that of Mrs.
> Kerry. Although she and her straight-talking husband keep their finances
> separate for tax purposes, her company plane has been flying him and his
> entourage of lobbyists around the country at bargain rates, a particular
> boon during the many months when his campaign was out of cash. As for
> conflicts of interest, the patina of reform has long rubbed off of Senator
> McCain, whose penchant for using his office to assist donors with federal
> land swaps and other sweetheart deals should surprise no one paying close
> attention to his career.
>
>
>
> Is there further revealing information to be found in Mrs. McCain's tax
> returns? Nobody knows except Cindy, but the clues provided in her husband's
> returns would certainly tantalize those busybodies on the right, if only the
> McCains were Democrats. For instance, they appear to have used their
> charitable foundation, in part, to ensure that their children attended elite
> schools, by strategically donating very large sums to those institutions.
> They also appear likely to have benefited very handsomely from the Bush tax
> cuts, which Senator McCain formerly opposed but whose extension he now
> supports in perpetuity.
>
>
>
> Yet Mrs. McCain is getting away with stonewalling on her taxes. "This is a
> privacy issue," she said, and nobody has responded with the mockery directed
> at Mrs. Kerry. (Imagine the gale-force media uproar if the Clintons had
> refused to release their returns because they claimed to be protecting
> Chelsea.) Indeed, the deputy editorial page editor of *The Journal*, who
> oversaw those august columns when they howled for disclosure from Mrs. Kerry
> in 2004, dismissed any concern over Mrs. McCain's tax returns as "a fairly
> marginal issue."
>
>
>
> The question that remains is whether other major media outlets—including
> newspapers, such as *The Washington Post*, that have urged full disclosure
> from the Clintons and Kerrys—will challenge the McCains to live up to that
> same standard. So far, the record is not encouraging.
>
>
>
> >
>
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