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Mary Ann Parker LCDR
Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 406
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:42 pm Post subject: Kerry Campaign Stonewalling on Nannygate Questions!!!????? |
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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 11:19 a.m. EDT
Kerry Campaign Stonewalling on Nannygate Questions
Does John Kerry, whose billionaire wife Teresa employs a small army of housekeepers, gardeners, cooks, chauffeurs, butlers and other hired help at her five estates around the country, have a Nannygate problem?
Two calls this week to the Kerry campaign press office, asking if Mrs. Heinz has paid Social Security taxes on her domestic staff, have so far gone unreturned.
Questions about whether candidates and their spouses are illegally paying domestic help off the books have bedeviled the political campaigns of the rich and famous since 1993, when Clinton Attorney General nominee Zoe Baird crashed and burned after her Nannygate predicament was revealed.
Her replacement, Kimba Wood, had the same problem and had to withdraw.
In California's 1994 Senate race, both Democrat Dianne Feinstein and Republican Michael Huffington admitted hiring illegal aliens, canceling the problem out.
More recently, however, similar charges dogged EPA Administrator Christie Whitman. Last year, when Arnold Schwarzenegger released his tax returns after announcing his gubernatorial bid, Nannygate problems were among the first things reporters looked for. There were none.
Even largely baseless Nannygate accusations were enough to derail the nomination of the eminently qualified Linda Chavez to become Secretary of Labor.
But with less than two weeks to go in this year's presidential campaign, the question hasn't even come up for the woman who has undoubtedly hired more nannies than any other political spouse in the history of American politics.
That's due, at least in part, to the fact that Teresa Heinz continues to guard her tax returns more closely than the nation's nuclear secrets.
Some say, however, that even the small bit of information revealed in the Kerry campaign's two page tax document dump last Friday show telltale signs that the Heinz Kerrys do indeed have a Nannygate problem.
The Internet blog site "Desert Rat Ramblings" noted, for instance:
"Lines 55 and 59 on [Teresa's] Form 1040 are Social Security and Medicare taxes paid to Household employees, ie: nannies; housekeepers; gardeners; etc. . . . What Heinz-Kerry is claiming on her tax return for Household 'wages' extrapolates to approximately $7,500 - $8,000/year.
"$8,000 a year paid to household staff from a billionaire?"
Aside from Social Security taxes, questions about whether the would-be first couple obtained the proper I-9 immigration forms from their employees, and maintained proper W-2 records, have also gone unanswered.
Only a press corps that was actively working for a Kerry win would have let these questions fester till the last two weeks of the campaign.
Absent more thorough media scrutiny - or the Kerry campaign's decision to be more forthcoming about Teresa's finances - the American public would be right to conclude that something is being covered-up.
APOLOGY IF POSTED ALREADY.
ADMN PLS DELETE.
Make it a busy kind of day.
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JimRobson Lieutenant
Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 242 Location: Jacksonville FL
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Mary Ann, Thanks for all you do. ![Very Happy](images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif) _________________ ETN2 PTF2 (Littlecreek Underwater Demolition Unit 2 1963)
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Anker-Klanker Admiral
Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 1033 Location: Richardson, TX
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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Isn't it amazing? There's so many things out there that would each bring down the career of someone else, and for sKerry nothing clings. |
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Mary Ann Parker LCDR
Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 406
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:18 pm Post subject: My Honor AND Privilege..Thanks for the Thanks |
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Thank you Jim.
Don't you love our "misunderestimated" demolition unit??
Watch it.
I still love that dog.
Ya'll get ready. Since everyone did not join at
the same time......I will be hauling out the (hopefuly)
relevant archives.
Nov. 2nd we will all get a test.
Seriously, thanks for the note and most of all
thanks for your very dangerous and dedicated
service. You all are warriors of God.
Make it a marvelous day.
Mary Ann |
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buffman LCDR
Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 437
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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Gotta get Rushbo and Sean the Man on this one, let's send them some email traffic. _________________ Never Ever Give Up
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MissouriVeteransDaughter Ensign
Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 59 Location: Springfield, Missouri, Bush Country!
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Is there some way to do a bit of research about this amongst the bloggers? There has to be some information about the number of staff at the various Heinz Kerry estates that might be publicly accessible. This may be a "wild goose chase", but on the other hand, maybe not! _________________ "Lord...Who may live on your holy hill? He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman" Ps15:1-3. |
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