Did I mention why I call it that?
"Winslow releases tax information" by Michael Levenson | Globe Staff, March 09, 2013
Republican Senate candidate Daniel B. Winslow, who has suggested that he is a member of the middle class, earned more than $500,000 a year in both 2010 and 2011, making him part of the top 1 percent of earners in America.
In a $trange kind of way he is the perfect $enator, donchathink?
Winslow, a state representative and trial lawyer, released the information in a one-page memo that showed his annual earnings and the federal tax rate he paid every year between 2003 and 2011. With his memo, he became the first candidate to inject the issue of tax returns into the special election.
Winslow said he was disclosing the information as part of his pledge to be transparent and promised to release 10 years of complete tax returns next week.
Oh, no, where have we heard that one before?
But the filings also seemed designed to quietly amend the portrait he has painted of himself as a typical workaday earner. In addition, the disclosure — on a snowy Friday afternoon, when much of the news media and the public were focused on the storm — suggested that it may have been timed to avoid broad public scrutiny....
So even the Globe is in on the game and gag because I have not seen any mention of it since, and I have been over every inch of my Globe the last few days as I have been sidelined due to illness.
Winslow’s earnings may come as a surprise to voters who have heard him on the campaign trail, where he talks about the two mortgages and three tuitions he has to pay. He also mentions that his father was an antenna repairman and his mother was a nurse....
No, not really. A Romney acolyte $elling himself of as regular folk?
Tax returns often become flash points in political campaigns because they show where candidates fall on the income scale and whether they use loopholes or benefits to reduce their tax burdens below what the typical middle-class earner might pay. The returns may also reveal conflicts of interest and contradictions between a candidate’s policy pronouncements and personal financial practices....
What a nice way of saying they are hypocrites and liars.
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What is amazing on this score is the alleged liberal, Democrat newspaper dropped the class component and allowed the image, illusion, and -- gasp -- lie to stand:
"GOP Senate foes mix it up in first debate; The three spiritedly debate immigration, change in Washington, Swartz prosecution" by Stephanie Ebbert | Globe Staff, March 13, 2013
EASTON — State Representative Daniel B. Winslow of Norfolk, who served in the Romney administration and as a judge, portrayed himself as an outsider who would shake up the status quo.
“If you think things are going well, vote for the other guys, because I’m here to try to change things in Washington,” he said, panning sequestration as an example of the problems and deriding Democrats for “scare tactics.”
Well, they should be derided, but is this the change in the right direction?
Gabriel E. Gomez, a 47-year-old private equity investor from Cohasset, was the halting newcomer leaning heavily on his life story as the son of Colombian immigrants and his years as a US Navy SEAL.
“We cannot send another career politician down to D.C.,” Gomez said, repeating the descriptor he used at least a half-dozen times in the debate....
How much you pull down in salary?
And then.... the censorship set in. My printed paper says something regarding Rand Paul's filibuster about drone strikes in the U.S., while you webbers have seen that scrubbed.
Asked about US Senator Rand Paul's filibuster over civil liberties on the floor of the Senate last week, Winslow said he spoke out in support of him even as it was happening.
"When the civil liberties of the US citizens were at stake where were the Democrats?" he asked. "Where was Steve Lynch? Where was Ed Markey? It was left to one senator, and I was proud to stand with him in spirit. I hope to stand with him on the floor."
And if it were a Romney presidency we wouldn't have heard a peep.
Picking it up after those hand-typed paragraphs I'm staring at in print:
On immigration, Gomez noted that as the son of immigrants, he favors a pathway to citizenship that would be “not easy, but also not impossible.”
Winslow called for a comprehensive approach to immigration reform, sealing off porous borders, speeding up the process for those seeking to immigrate legally, and expediting deportation of those who commit crimes. Neither he nor Gomez called for amnesty for any particular group of illegal immigrants.
It's as I have said, folks. Had Romney won immigration would still be on the agenda. The conservatives would be furious, but this guy here is a Romney guy.
Michael J. Sullivan — who previously served as US attorney and director of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives — on the other hand, said he would give amnesty to undocumented immigrants who had served the United States in the military.
This from the alleged Tea-Part kook of the group. Ah, hell, we are an empire and now behave as one. We need more soldiers due to our worn-out military; thus, women are admitted into combat and illegal immigrants can gain citizenship by serving its war machine. Rome bought citizenship with service long ago, and now here we are.
Gomez, asked about his effort to persuade Governor Deval Patrick to appoint him interim senator after John F. Kerry left the seat vacant to become secretary of state, said he would release on Wednesday the letter he sent seeking the appointment.
What did private equity pay you last year?
Asked about whether they would work with freshman US Senator Elizabeth Warren on prosecuting banks, Gomez said he could work with anyone. “I don’t believe that any bank or any institution is too big to fail or too big to prosecute,” he said.
Who does?
"Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the nation’s banks had become too big to jail. “The size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them,” Holder said at a hearing Wednesday. “If we do prosecute — if we do bring a criminal charges — it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy.”"
Oh.
Winslow criticized federal prosecutors for targeting some for justice, and not others, specifically pointing to US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz’s prosecution of Internet activist Aaron Swartz on federal hacking charges, a case that has been seen by some critics as overly aggressive.
“There has to be some sense of proportion,” said Winslow.
See: Swartz's Swan Song
Sullivan criticized President Obama’s Department of Justice, but for different reasons, saying it should have prosecuted Wall Street, beyond seeking financial penalties, but instead focused on individuals and not corporations.
Here, here, except it's too late and they got to keep the ill-gotten gains and bonuses.
“Do we prosecute a company just for the sake of saying we’re tough and have [innocent] people lose their jobs?” Sullivan said....
What?
Later, asked whether Ortiz went too far in prosecuting Swartz, who took his own life, Sullivan said there were situations when he led the same office when suspects awaiting trial committed suicide....
Wow, that's a little cold. Sully says, aw, well, things like that happen.
Oh, right, he was BATF so he knows all about "suicides" and stuff.
Gomez said that “the thing that alarms me is the potential politicization of a department such as US attorney,” and he called it “just another example of why people don’t trust career politicians down in Washington, D.C.”
Or any, for that matter, but beyond that where was the puke when it was Gonzalez and Bush and that whole crowd?
Or even to think for a minute that all the patsy-plot frame-ups and "terrorist" show trials aren't political fodder for mind-manipulating, nonsense narratives aren't political is silly. The reason no one trusts politicians anymore is -- save for the very rare one -- the whole crop is a crowd of lying looters in one form or fashion, bought of by the $ame old $pecial intere$t$ time and again.
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Btw, I decided not to run.
