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    Romney Campaign Requested 'Several' Years of Tax Returns of VP Contenders

    CHARLOTTE - Mitt Romney requested "several" years of tax returns from his potential running mates, a senior adviser to the candidate said Saturday, suggesting that those considered for the ticket may have been required to reveal more financial documents that the candidate himself.

    In a briefing with reporters in Virginia Saturday, senior adviser Beth Myers, who was charged with headed the vice president selection process, declined to specify exactly how many years of tax returns were required, saying only that "several" were requested.

    Several, by definition, implies more than two years.

    Romney, who has been under intense pressure to release more of his own tax returns by both Democrats and members of his own party, has so far released his 2010 returns and an estimate for his 2011 returns.

    The campaign has said that the full 2011 returns will be released sometime before the November election.

    When asked why he does not put the criticism to rest and just release more of his tax returns, Romney has said that no matter how many he decided to make public, there will always be a call to give more.

    And while Romney's own father, George Romney, released 12 years of tax returns during his bid for the presidency, the candidate today cites Sen. John McCain as the one who set the precedent to release just two years.

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    • Mary  •  Dallas, Texas  •  1 day 10 hrs ago
      That's a great idea. That way he will get a good view of his potential running mate's financial practices. Great idea! Why didn't we think of that?
      • Little Lady 1 day 4 hrs ago
        @ Owen - Some people don't understand humor.
      • Owen 1 day 4 hrs ago
        Leave Mary alone. Can't you see she was being sarcastic???
      • Domino 1 day 4 hrs ago
        Mary wake up HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLO its Romney's my dear people wanna see
    • Beowolfe  •  1 day 6 hrs ago
      LOL!!!! Even Romney knows that one year can be skewed.
      • Beowolfe 8 hrs ago
        Something tells me that the taxes he gave to the McCain campaign (that caused them to select Palin) are going to miraculously appear close to the election.
      • Little Lady 1 day 4 hrs ago
        He knows 2 years can be skewed. He was up for VP w/ McCain, McCain choose Palin. 4 years is a lot of time to make your new tax records "right" and presentable...
    • Facts over Fiction  •  1 day 6 hrs ago
      "Romney Campaign Requested 'Several' Years of Tax Returns of VP Contenders"

      Do as I say and not as I do, right Mitt? Good ol' Double Standards Romney!

      But on his OWN TAXS? STONEWALL!

      BOO-HOO Mitt!!! You like to play rough against others, but then cry when your hair gets mussed—JUST LIKE EVERY BULLY WHEN THEY GET A TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE.

      What a hypocrite Romney is—he's the one who pulled the negative ad trigger first, often and viciously against Gingrich and Santorum while trying to cast Obama in the worst light possible, now HE'S whining victim?!!

      Once again we see that the Republicans LOVE to dish it out but can't take it. Since BEFORE the election they've been spreading patently false rumors that President Obama is a Muslim and isn't a citizen despite all the proof to the contrary—including him releasing his official birth certificate from Hawaii.

      Poor little corporate raider—Go ahead—cry us a river Mitt.

      If the Right wouldn't trust that Obama IS a US citizen and INCESSANTLY demanded that he produce a birth certificate—which he did, then Americans HAVE EVERY RIGHT to demand that Romney must disclose his finances to the American people like EVERY other Presidential candidate!

      FACT: If Obama refused to release HIS taxes, Romneyites would be frothing at the mouth with outrage—what disgusting hypocrites!!!

      "Romney Failed to Disclose Swiss Bank Account Income"
      "The discovery that Romney's vast holdings included an account in Switzerland, a country long notorious for helping the very wealthy hide their assets, came during his release of his tax return" —ABC News

      "One of Romney’s biggest foreign investments is sheltered from U.S. taxation, partly because it is based in the Cayman Islands." —Washington Post

      "Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd. - is described by government financial documents as "a Bermuda corporation wholly owned by W. Mitt Romney." Yet, as both Vanity Fair and the Associated Press note in new reports, it has never appeared on the candidate's financial disclosure forms. Limited details on its existence only recently came to light when Romney released his 2010 tax return under public pressure."—ABC News

      "Obama released seven years' worth of returns. McCain released two years' worth. Romney released his 2010 return only after pressure from Republicans. That forced him to amend the personal financial disclosures he had filed earlier in the year because those documents didn't mention a Swiss bank account or a series of funds that were set up in foreign countries." —Associated Press

      What's going on with Romney? What honest American does these kind of things? If we're supposed to trust this guy, then what does he have to hide?
    • Magician  •  2 days 8 hrs ago
      "Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
      Thomas Jefferson
      • Calvin 1 day 6 hrs ago
        Sad, sad "Mittens"...your clown face is appropriate for you alone. Jefferson did not write the Constitution. The Constitution was a "group project" which you can say was "edited" by James Madison if that helps you understand it.
      • Highlander 1 day 9 hrs ago
        T.J. was had very lofty ideals about freedom. He practiced them by banging his
        slaves.
      • Mittens 1 day 9 hrs ago
        Mark, YOU are the one whose understand of history seems wrong. Thomas Jefferson FOUNDED THIS GOVERNMENT. His Constitution gives Congress the power to levy taxes. Jefferson was not an anarchist.
    • fun2ridefast  •  St Louis, Missouri  •  1 day 23 hrs ago
      No irony in that request.
    • party of fear  •  2 days 7 hrs ago
      "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
      Thomas Jefferson
      • Mozart1220 20 hrs ago
        Well man, selling arms to an enemy nation IS treason, but reagan got away with it. Bush lied to congress so they would vote for his wars. Maybe you should sto letting Fox news put their fear in your head and start lookng at the REAL WORLD.
      • MAN 22 hrs ago
        The Dems have been captured and entranced by Obama the communist (Frank his mentor) Harry Reid and Nancy...The hatred for America is vile and sickening. Building a dependency class to ensure re-election should be treason.
      • Mozart1220 1 day 3 hrs ago
        Imagine if slavery were still going on today, and some president tried to end it as Lincoln did. Can you imagine the backlash from Limbaugh and Fox about the "Socialist dictator" who says honest business men have to give up their personal property? LINCOLN CLEARLY HATES CAPITALISM!! So much for Lincoln being a Republican.
    • dion  •  New York, New York  •  1 day 5 hrs ago
      You try telling the IRS you didn't file for 10 years and they will set you up in a 4x9 foot room with a roommate named Bubba.Romney doesn't file and he gets to run for president.You do the math.
    • Paul  •  Waterford, Connecticut  •  1 day 5 hrs ago
      Romney doesnt "believe" he's obligated to provide tax returns, but he "believes" hs own VP choice is. With different sets of rules for him versus others, he's a true example of right winged ideology.
      • Michelle 13 hrs ago
        My apology to you Darren...I misunderstood who your comment was directed at.
      • Michelle 13 hrs ago
        What? I thought Obama did release his tax records??
        @Laura....Conspiracy theories..like a day without sunshine!
        @Darren..Mitt can run, but you can't hide him. If it were Obama you would be demanding 10 years of taxes AND "his real" birth certificate.
      • DarrenM 14 hrs ago
        Are they tax records Laura? No because he has already released them.

        Just because you and all the other unibrows keep coming up with more #$%$ demands does not make them valid.
    • John  •  1 day 4 hrs ago
      These two will fool a few, but read ryan's budget plan, even the old white crowd that go to these rallies should take a closer look! What has happened to the republican party!!
    • jack  •  1 day 1 hr ago
      I do not expect nothing from a bully but what a bully does hey man My breath dont stink but your does You release all your taxes and never mind what I said I am Mitt Romney. I do not have to release mine .
    • Brian  •  1 day 5 hrs ago
      He realeased for the years he knew he was running for president. He probably new when he was seeking the nomination in 2008 that he should stop avoiding taxes, but greed got in the way. He couldn't bear to part with any of his $300 million
    • Facts over Fiction  •  1 day 1 hr ago
      "Romney Campaign Requested 'Several' Years of Tax Returns of VP Contenders"

      Do as I say and not as I do, right Mitt? Good ol' Double Standards Romney!

      But on his OWN TAXS? STONEWALL!

      BOO-HOO Mitt!!! You like to play rough against others, but then cry when your hair gets mussed—JUST LIKE EVERY BULLY WHEN THEY GET A TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE.

      What a hypocrite Romney is—he's the one who pulled the negative ad trigger first, often and viciously against Gingrich and Santorum while trying to cast Obama in the worst light possible, now HE'S whining victim?!!

      Once again we see that the Republicans LOVE to dish it out but can't take it. Since BEFORE the election they've been spreading patently false rumors that President Obama is a Muslim and isn't a citizen despite all the proof to the contrary—including him releasing his official birth certificate from Hawaii.

      Poor little corporate raider—Go ahead—cry us a river Mitt.

      If the Right wouldn't trust that Obama IS a US citizen and INCESSANTLY demanded that he produce a birth certificate—which he did, then Americans HAVE EVERY RIGHT to demand that Romney must disclose his finances to the American people like EVERY other Presidential candidate!

      FACT: If Obama refused to release HIS taxes, Romneyites would be frothing at the mouth with outrage—what disgusting hypocrites!!!

      "Romney Failed to Disclose Swiss Bank Account Income"
      "The discovery that Romney's vast holdings included an account in Switzerland, a country long notorious for helping the very wealthy hide their assets, came during his release of his tax return" —ABC News

      "One of Romney’s biggest foreign investments is sheltered from U.S. taxation, partly because it is based in the Cayman Islands." —Washington Post

      "Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd. - is described by government financial documents as "a Bermuda corporation wholly owned by W. Mitt Romney." Yet, as both Vanity Fair and the Associated Press note in new reports, it has never appeared on the candidate's financial disclosure forms. Limited details on its existence only recently came to light when Romney released his 2010 tax return under public pressure."—ABC News

      "Obama released seven years' worth of returns. McCain released two years' worth. Romney released his 2010 return only after pressure from Republicans. That forced him to amend the personal financial disclosures he had filed earlier in the year because those documents didn't mention a Swiss bank account or a series of funds that were set up in foreign countries." —Associated Press

      What's going on with Romney? What honest American does these kind of things? If we're supposed to trust this guy, then what does he have to hide?
    • Stephen H  •  Mt Hamilton, California  •  1 day 5 hrs ago
      Ryan produced just the years he paid FIT...
      Kinda like Mitt partially shows the 1 year he did pay 13% FIT 2010...
      2000-2009 Mitt has to hide because he paid no FIT for 10 years...
      No wonder we have a deficit when the zillionaires enjoy the USA perks without paying!!!
    • JuddS  •  Dallas, Texas  •  2 days 2 hrs ago
      John Mc Cain had already released MANY years of his tax returns when he ran for Senator. That is why he only had to release two years when he ran for President- the two years since he had last run for Senator. All of his previous ones had already been released. Romney Hood, of course, leaves out that minor detail.
    • littleguysside  •  1 day 5 hrs ago
      "You show me yours and I'll be VERY SELECTIVE about showing you mine!" Wonder why?
    • Lost  •  1 day 15 hrs ago
      Rover Norquist said we only need a president that has enough fingers to sign our corporate fascist bills. Apparently Norquist decided they also need a My Way or the Highway dictator for VP. Makes ya wonder how long of a future the Tealaban has planned for Romney.
    • Vox Populi  •  Leeds, Alabama  •  2 days 3 hrs ago
      Republicans just LOVE false equivalencies. "Mitt will release his tax returns (yeah, sure) when Obama releases his elementary school report card". How about Mitt matches the dozen years of tax returns the president has released, readily available online, and THEN you can start shrieking like a lunch whistle about "real" birth certificates, or whatever it is your symptomology makes you think is important?
    • sequoia  •  1 day 9 hrs ago
      Mitt Romney = hypocrite. This entitled, elitist, spoiled snob is the worst GOP candidate in 50 years. He's worse than Bob Dole.
    • Joe  •  Knob Lick, Kentucky  •  1 day 6 hrs ago
      Romney knows it's too vital a post to trust to a guy who won't show his returns.
      *cough*
    • Dennis  •  Dallas, Georgia  •  2 days 8 hrs ago
      Mitt says McCain only showed 2 years ! But what he fails to tell people McCain showed all his taxes while in the Senate and only had 2 years to make up for when he left to run for President ! Fact we have records of Many years of taxes McCain released and stiil does release !
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