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Democrats Pound Romney Over Offshore Holdings
A recent spate of news articles about Mitt Romney’s offshore accounts, including an Associated Press report about a Romney-owned corporation in Bermuda have thrust the issue of the candidate’s finances, wealth and taxes to the fore. And Democrats are eager to use it as a political weapon against Romney.
“This is a guy whose slogan is ‘Believe In America’ but it should be ‘Business In Bermuda,’” said Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “That’s what Mitt Romney’s all about.”
“I’d really like to see Mitt Romney release more than one year of tax records because there’s been disturbing reports recently that he’s got a … secretive Bermuda corporation that no one knows anything about,” DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Gibbs said Romney needs to release more tax returns in order to clear up questions over whether he’s “done anything illegally, whether he’s shielding his income from taxes in Bermuda or Switzerland.”
On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) said, “You either get a Swiss bank account to conceal what you’re doing or you believe the Swiss franc is stronger than the American dollar.”
“This is a guy whose slogan is ‘Believe In America’ but it should be ‘Business In Bermuda,’” said Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “That’s what Mitt Romney’s all about.”
“I’d really like to see Mitt Romney release more than one year of tax records because there’s been disturbing reports recently that he’s got a … secretive Bermuda corporation that no one knows anything about,” DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Gibbs said Romney needs to release more tax returns in order to clear up questions over whether he’s “done anything illegally, whether he’s shielding his income from taxes in Bermuda or Switzerland.”
On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) said, “You either get a Swiss bank account to conceal what you’re doing or you believe the Swiss franc is stronger than the American dollar.”
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/democrats-attack-romneys-offshore-holdings-swiss-bank-account-bermuda.php?ref=fpa
Guess it's all hitting a nerve with the Romney Campaign who is crying foul, "character assault"! Waaaah!!!
Obama Camp Goes After Romney’s Offshore Holdings In New Video
“It isn’t too much to ask that a candidate for president explain why he chose to invest in other countries that are known as tax havens rather than in the United States,” Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt says in the video.
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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/obama-camp-goes-after-romneys-offshore-holdings-in
In other news but related to the Democratic fangs coming out
Dems Attack Romney Over Fundraiser At Koch Brother’s Home
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/dems-attack-romney-over-fundraiser-at-koch-brothers
I think I hear a GOP balloon popping in the distance
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...why should Romney be afraid to release his tax returns?
knew he had nothing to worry about 
the birth certificate.
That and a whole lot of look over here and nothingness
Made me Wonder if the song "Kokomo" was written about the places Romney has bank accounts... Just sayin' 
