Mitt's VP choice and tax returns

[SHRED]

Won't Willard's choice for VP have to withhold their tax returns also?
Can't upstage the boss after all.

Oh...this will get real interesting and it is not going away.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Yep, pretty much.....

They're in a bit of a corner on this one.

[mazzarro]

2. That will be awkward

If his VP should be more forthcoming with his/her tax releases than Mittens! The campaign will be hard put to explain that adequately to the voting public. And if the VP follows Mittens precedent, the issue will be further strengthened -- wow!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Tim Pawlenty has been refusing to release his tax returns

The story appeared in yesterday's Guardian newspaper. Pawlenty and Romney were meant for each other.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/03/tim-pawlenty-tax-vice-presidential?newsfeed=true

Tim Pawlenty faces tax return scrutiny as Romney VP choice nears

The touting of Tim Pawlenty as potential running-mate for Mitt Romney has reignited questions over his refusal as governor of Minnesota to release tax returns during a scandal over payments from a company owned by a close political ally.

Democrats have been digging into a web of allegations from nine years ago which involved Pawlenty's use of a shell corporation to shield $60,000 in payments from a telecommunications group during his election campaign that were not declared to the state's campaign finance board. The money came from a firm run by a prominent Republican strategist. Pawlenty had until recently been a board member.

Opponents accused Pawlenty of accepting an unethical and possibly illegal salary to campaign. The scandal widened because the telecommunications group making the payments was exposed for scamming customers, many of them elderly.

[davidpdx]

4. Maybe T-Paw would be his man then

The campaign slogan could be "we aren't going to release our taxes to you people".