Hey, Bartender, a Wilkerson Lite!
The downward spiral motion of the Reilly for Governor campaign continues unabated this morning.
Please, pleeeeeease, gentle readers, do not let this story destroy your faith in our elected representatives. After searching high and low for a potential running mate for his upcoming gubernatorial bid, our esteemed Attorney General announced the other day that he had decided on State Representative Marie St. Fleur from Dorchester.
That might prove to be not-so-hot a choice.
Reilly's pick delinquent on taxes, loans
Elitism, arrogance, fiscal irresponsibility, and dishonesty.
All the hallmarks of a genuine Bay State hack politician. Why is thisflunky woman not at the top of the ticket? Sign her up!
St. Fleur: "Mr. Reilly, I think you should know I have some financial issues that might come up later in the campaign."
Reilly: "Whatever. You're still black, right?"
Not with State Senator Dianne Wilkerson as a role model, it won't. Just follow her step-by-step instructions and you'll have a long, prosperous, taxpayer-funded career here in Massachusetts.
Q: For 10 bonus points, how can you tell when Tom Reilly is lying?
Shocking.
Yeah, I'm sure it was just a "clerical error". Uh-huh.
Just like her and her husband's failure to pay their "fair share" of taxes was simply an innocent oversight on their part. I'm sure it was just a matter of two ordinary people not understanding the tax code of the Commonwealth. I mean, the tax laws are even more complicated that our gun laws, and that's saying something. You'd have to be an accountant just to have any real clue as to how they work.
Oh...never mind.
So, the woman who would be lieutenant governor of Massachusetts wants to give your tax dollars to illegal aliens, in the form of discount college tuition rates, but can't bring herself to kick any of her hard-earned (for lack of a better phrase) money into the pot.
Shocking.
I know.
Please, pleeeeeease, gentle readers, do not let this story destroy your faith in our elected representatives. After searching high and low for a potential running mate for his upcoming gubernatorial bid, our esteemed Attorney General announced the other day that he had decided on State Representative Marie St. Fleur from Dorchester.
That might prove to be not-so-hot a choice.
Reilly's pick delinquent on taxes, loans
State Representative Marie P. St. Fleur, Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly's choice to be his lieutenant governor running mate, has had three delinquent tax debts in the last four years, including an April 2005 federal tax lien of $12,711 against her and her husband, according to records examined yesterday by the Globe.
St. Fleur, in an interview last night, disclosed that she also owes $40,000 in delinquent federally backed student loans.
St. Fleur told the Globe last night that she had paid down the federal tax debt to about $8,000 by making $500 monthly payments since last spring. But later last night, Corey Welford, a Reilly campaign spokesman, corrected her, saying that she had in fact made only one $500 payment last May and that the balance is still more than $12,000.
Elitism, arrogance, fiscal irresponsibility, and dishonesty.
All the hallmarks of a genuine Bay State hack politician. Why is this
Reilly, St. Fleur said, first approached her Saturday about being his running mate and offered her the spot on Sunday. She said she told Reilly that she had "some financial issues" with taxes and student loans, but that he didn't ask her to provide any numbers and only sought assurance from her that she was dealing with the problems.
St. Fleur: "Mr. Reilly, I think you should know I have some financial issues that might come up later in the campaign."
Reilly: "Whatever. You're still black, right?"
"This is embarrassing to me; I knew this was going to come out," St. Fleur said, adding later: "I knew that when I stepped out like this that it might be the end of my career."
Not with State Senator Dianne Wilkerson as a role model, it won't. Just follow her step-by-step instructions and you'll have a long, prosperous, taxpayer-funded career here in Massachusetts.
Reilly said last night that he warned St. Fleur that she would face extraordinary scrutiny, but he acknowledged that he didn't make any inquiries about the extent of her financial problems before inviting her to join his campaign. Picking St. Fleur, he said, ''was less a political calculation than my belief in this person."
Q: For 10 bonus points, how can you tell when Tom Reilly is lying?
The public record of the federal tax liability is missing from the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, where it should be readily available to anyone doing a database search. Secretary of State William F. Galvin, who oversees the Registry, said he is launching an inquiry to make sure no one acted to remove the record.
Shocking.
"At best, it was a clerical error; at worst, it was something else," Galvin said.
Yeah, I'm sure it was just a "clerical error". Uh-huh.
Just like her and her husband's failure to pay their "fair share" of taxes was simply an innocent oversight on their part. I'm sure it was just a matter of two ordinary people not understanding the tax code of the Commonwealth. I mean, the tax laws are even more complicated that our gun laws, and that's saying something. You'd have to be an accountant just to have any real clue as to how they work.
As for the $12,711 federal tax bill, St. Fleur said she and her husband, who is an accountant, did not have sufficient taxes withheld in 2003 and were surprised to find they owed such a large sum.
Oh...never mind.
So, the woman who would be lieutenant governor of Massachusetts wants to give your tax dollars to illegal aliens, in the form of discount college tuition rates, but can't bring herself to kick any of her hard-earned (for lack of a better phrase) money into the pot.
Shocking.
I know.
