DeVos won't release tax returns (billionaire running for MI gov)

[UrbScotty]

Republican candidate for governor Dick DeVos, a member of one of America's richest families, says he will not release his entire income tax returns. He says he will provide some summaries of his wealth.

"I have decided I'm going to disclose certain information because I think it is important," DeVos said during a campaign stop in Holland.

<snip>

Brewer says not only does Governor Granholm release her tax returns; he says recent Republican candidates also shared their financial secrets.

"John Engler, Dick Posthumous disclosed their tax returns," says Brewer. "We think Dick DeVos should adhere to the same standard."

http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=49137

[kzootalker]

1. this fight isnt over yet

[UrbScotty]

2. Like I say, fear not - Dick supports the sanctity of marriage

That will cure all our problems.

[Michigander4Dean]

14. Whew! Thank God!

It's good to know that when I get married I can trust Dick DeVos with my marriage!

:sarcasm:

[regnaD kciN]

3. AmwayMan is running for governor...?

No wonder he doesn't want to reveal his financial status...it must be embarrassing to be funding one's campaign on the proceeds from the world's biggest and longest-running pyramid scheme!

:eyes:

[EST]

4. I thought it was a legal requirement.

You wanna run for public office, there are certain requirements.

[Michigander4Dean]

15. That only applies to Democrats | nt

[Bozita]

5. Here! Sell this toilet paper to your neighbor, and every time he wipes...

... his ass, you'll make money.

Honest!

And it comes in colors, too.

[Hyernel]

6. DeVos is a fundy piece of shit...

...Owns the Orlando Magic. No doubt refers to them as his niggaz.

I really hope Granholm kicks his ignorant ass. I really like her.

[UrbScotty]

17. I think that's his brother Doug who owns the Magic (nt)

[JNelson6563]

7. What a surprise

a Rethug who likes to keep their money info secret.

[rooboy]

8. Funny how ALL the Amway millionaires won't show their tax returns...

lest the public find out how their money is REALLY made.

[noonwitch]

9. If he won't disclose it, there must be something there

That's what Sean Hannity would say if DeVos were a democrat.

[shugah]

10. is there some dark secret in those returns?

"It creates the suspicion there is something in there he is trying to hide," says Brewer.

is there something devos doesn't want voters to see? what a mystery!

[rooboy]

11. check out these websites...

www.merchantsofdeception.com

www.amquix.info

The Amway/Quixtar fortune is built partly on a very profitable manufacturing business, and a series of tax evasions, frauds and thefts.

[da_chimperor]

13. He probably wants to hide the fact that he plays the tax system.

I think it's safe to assume he has a full-time tax accountant to take advantage of every credit, allowance, and loophole with a tax return hundreds of pages long.

For all the talk of DUers wanting to tax the rich, i'd think that reforming and simplifying the tax code would be a higher priority.

[SharonAnn]

18. He got a $1 million Tax Credit inserted into the first Bush tax cut.

It only benefited him. They way it was written, no one else got the benefit, only him.

He's disgusting, racist, misogynistic, greedy, power hungry and crooked as they come.

[UrbScotty]

21. I fear the guy wants to become President one day

:scared:

[pinerow]

12. Michigan is going to vote for Amway...???

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad...

[Michigander4Dean]

16. Hope not

He won't have a snowball's chance you-know-where if I have anything to do about it.

[UrbScotty]

20. DeVo$ only ha$ one advantage

Even that can't buy you an election.

But we'll see.

[rustydog]

19. DeVos, he did it AMWAYYYYYYYYYYYY!

[pfitz59]

22. Probably his "Blackwater "connection........

"Prince, a staunch right-wing Christian, comes from a powerful Michigan Republican family, and his father, Edgar, was a close friend of former Republican presidential candidate and antichoice leader Gary Bauer. In 1988 the elder Prince helped Bauer start the Family Research Council. Erik Prince's sister, Betsy, once chaired the Michigan Republican Party and is married to Dick DeVos, whose father, billionaire Richard DeVos, is co-founder of the major Republican benefactor Amway. Dick DeVos is also a big-time contributor to the Republican Party and will likely be the GOP candidate for Michigan governor in 2006. Another Blackwater founder, president Gary Jackson, is also a major contributor to Republican campaigns."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/scahill
http://www.mediamouse.org/static/betsy_devos_connection_to_war_profiteering_in_iraq.php
http://prairieweather.typepad.com/big_blue_stem/2005/03/dots_from_black.html

More.......

"Erik Prince's sister Betsy, who is chairman of the Michigan GOP, is married to Dick DeVos, the son of Amway founder Richard DeVos, a member of the board of the conservative and Christian Dominionist Council for National Policy (CNP), an umbrella organization where he rubs shoulders with such leading right wingers as Jack Abramoff, Howard Ahmanson, the Leadership Institute's Morton Blackwell, Focus on the Family's James Dobson, Coral Ridge's Dr. D. James Kennedy, Edwin Meese III, Pat Robertson, Richard Viguerie, and Paul Weyrich. The DeVos family has used a corporate entities such as the Windquest Group, DP Fox Ventures, and Alticor, Inc. to funnel thousands of dollars to conservative GOP politicians and their PACs, including Restoring the American Dream board member Sue Myrick, South Dakota Sen. John Thune, and Louisiana Rep. Bobby Jindal. Erik Prince, through a Virginia entity called Prince Household LLC, as well as the Prince Group, has contributed to Tom DeLay, Peter Hoekstra, George W. Bush, South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, and Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn.

Blackwater maintains the largest private military training facility in the United States. Located on an abandoned U.S. military base at Moyock, North Carolina on the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp near the North Carolina-Virginia border, Blackwater's Security Consulting subsidiary attracts military and paramilitary trainees from around the country and the world. Former Chilean and Honduran military personnel have been trained at Moyock prior to deployment to Iraq. What is even more attractive for the Bush administration and Blackwater is the fact that, as a private company, Blackwater is far removed from oversight by government inspectors general, Freedom of Information Act requests, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and snooping reporters."

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/september26-30.htm

DeVos and kin are perhaps the most powerful Fascists in America. Hell, they have their own private army! God save Michigan!

[Obamarama]

23. He's a fuck, his wife is a whore and Michiganians know it. He won't win.

[UrbScotty]

25. I pray that you're right (nt)

[Demeter]

24. That's All Right, Granholm Won't Release the State House, Either

No need to sweat it, DeVos.