Clinton Tax Returns - What Can You Do To Keep Up The Pressure?

1. Sign the online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/hcinctax/petition.html. Let the internet community know that this stubborn insistence on secrecy is an abomination.
2. Keep up the pressure by raising the online profile of stories that mention the tax returns. For instance, I use Digg.com and flag every story that mentions their tax returns. If you have your own personal blog, use it at every opportunity to mention the story. Don't let the mainstream media sleep on this story!!
3. Contact her Senate office and respectfully request that she release her tax returns before April 15. Pennsylvania voters need more time to digest the information that will be coming out of those returns. Link to her webpage: http://clinton.senate.gov/contact/
4. Any other ideas?? Please add them to the comments!
   

This story really is important. The simple fact is that Bill Clinton is an enormous presence on the speaking and consulting circuit. He generates an insane amount of money just by throwing his political weight around. The American people deserve to know who the Clintons deal with and where their money comes from. Also, Hillary likes to portray herself as sharing the pain of working class Americans. The voters deserve to know how much money they are actually worth.

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ABC News: The Clinton Tax Returns: What's the Holdup?

I don't think we should let up the pressure until she actually releases these things. April 15 is only one week before the Pennsylvania primaries, the voters need time to make an informed decision. Transparency please!!

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Those Rogue States

There are many many problems with all of these efforts to seat the Michigan and Florida delegates.

1. First and foremost in my mind, Florida and Michigan were stripped of their delegates because they moved up their primary dates in order to wield more power in the election process. Redoing the votes in both of those states would give them - guess what? - more power in the election process. We really should not be rewarding both of these states for their refusal to play by the established rules. Side note: in terms of delegates, it's pretty clear that redoing the votes in MI and FL wouldn't really resolve anything due to the proportional allocation thing the Dems are doing. See this post for a really awesome summary of the whys and hows of a revote.
2. Florida's Republican governor (Charlie Crist) has proposed a mail-in primary as a mechanism for the revote. This is an absolutely horrendous idea. The eyes of the USA and the entire world will be focused on Florida, and they're going to experiment with an untried format that is absolutely screaming out for voting irregularities and fraud? The end result of a statewide mail-in primary is most likely pure chaos, bickering, and lawsuits which would play out during and after the actual convention. This nightmare scenario probably explains why a Republican governor floated the idea.
   
3. Michigan Senator Carl Levin briefly floated the idea of a mail-in caucus (on one of the Sunday talkies, I think it was This Week). Again - crappy idea for the above stated reasons. Also, how in the hell do you administer a mail-in caucus??? I thought the whole concept of a caucus was a town hall style gathering of people that voted in blocs for a candidate? How do you do that via a mail-in ballot? With the stakes so high in this election, Michigan is going to get cute and try something like this? It smells to high heaven. I'm an Obama supporter and know that caucuses tend to favor him, but this idea still doesn't sit well with me.

Yikes, so what to do? I don't see this ending gracefully. My own personal feeling is just split the delegates and endure the howling that is sure to come from Clinton. Sure a split gives the advantage to Obama, but that probably negates the advantage that Clinton gained from leaving her name on the MI ballot to begin with.

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Maggot Brain - Eddie Hazel & Michael Hampton (Maryland 1983)

One of my absolute all time favorite songs..

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Release The Clinton Tax Returns!

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/03/release-the-t-1.html

Let's spread awareness on this issue. Why don't the Clinton's release their tax returns?

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Obama Memo on Clinton Tax Returns

Though her campaign has tried to kick the issue down the road, Democratic voters deserve to know, right now, why it is she is hiding the information in her tax returns from last year.

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RIP Teo Macero

Nice tribute to Miles' producer extraordinaire, who passed away Feb. 19. Not much else to add to the link, other than the music Miles created and Teo shaped has been some of the most influential to my way of thinking. I heard of Teo's passing and the first thing I thought of was the part in "It's About That Time" (part 2, track 2 of In A Silent Way) . The part around 14:30 (I'm guessing) where Miles breaks into an amazing run, where the previous section had been restlessly, quietly moving around. I first heard that part on a beach in San Diego and thought I had heard and felt the Infinite. I've never forgotten it. RIP Teo.

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