Even More MA "Surprises"...

2 more on ballot failed to pay tax

Two high-profile Democrats, the lieutenant governor and a candidate for state auditor, acknowledged yesterday that they also had not paid required taxes on investment income earned on their campaign accounts.

The campaigns of Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray and state auditor hopeful Guy Glodis scrambled yesterday to explain their tax delinquencies, just a day after state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill acknowledged that he had failed to pay as much as $15,000 in state taxes that his committee owed on interest income over the past decade.

Oopsie, redux. In the wake of yesterday's revelation about State Treasurer Tim Cahill "forgetting" to pay his taxes, more Democrats evading their civic duty have come to light. As others have so succinctly put it, this is my shocked face :| What is interesting is that you just know they're crawling all over Charlie Baker's record just HOPING to find something like this - heck, they discovered that the guy running to unseat Niki "Vote for my dead husband" Tsongas had a DWI nine years ago.

Baker had a great line about all of this:

“It’s ironic that on the day after he collects hundreds of thousands in taxpayer money to fund his campaign, he announced and admits that he hasn’t been paying taxes on his campaign account,’’ Baker said. “It’s the kind of double standard — one set of rules for Beacon Hill and one for everybody else — that makes regular people and regular taxpayers crazy.’’

Yep. The ol' "do as I say, not as I do" routine practiced by so many in politics - like John F. Kerry playing the "tax cuts for the rich" BS in 2004 when he ran against George Bush only to hide his yacht in RI to avoid taxes. And, of course, in the interest of fairness, it's the same as any garden variety GOP bible-thumper getting caught with his hands down a staffer's pants. Of course, the main difference being that the GOP sex scandals illustrate that yes, some do indeed have feet of clay and yes, politicians do say one thing and do another - but the Democrat scandals actively cost me money.

There is an upside to all this, though - with all of these Dem tax evaders, Øbama will have no shortage of potential administration members...

That is all.