Howard Wolfson Challenges Obama on Rezko
14 February 2008 4:27 pm by Taylor Marsh
Obama wants Clinton’s tax returns, because she used her own money in the campaign. Seems to me that Obama’s got his own questions to answer, if he wants to play this game. There are things in his past Obama still won’t talk about it.
Today Howard Wolfson
let it rip with Linda Douglas for the National Journal "On Air"
show, which airs tomorrow. Here’s
the transcript:
Q: Your campaign often brings up this issue of whether or not Obama has been
vetted, and I’m sure you saw Roger
Simon’s column in Politico where he makes the argument that there will
be new issues raised about Hillary Clinton as well if she is the nominee,
and he brings up the issue of why she’s not releasing her tax returns. Why
isn’t she releasing her tax returns?Wolfson: Well, I understand that the Obama campaign is trying to push
this issue. There is an awful lot known about Hillary Clinton’s finances.
She files an annual report with the clerk of the Senate that reveals all
the sources of her income, all the sources of her husband’s income. And
so people know where she is getting her money, and this was raised initially
when she gave the campaign a $5 million loan and questions were raised about
where she got the money. Well, this is a woman who is a best-selling author.
She’s made roughly $9 million from the sale of her book, so she has more
than enough money to have given the campaign $5 million.Much is known about her finances. There’s an awful lot of information
disclosed by her, and if Senator Obama is actually, really interested in
transparency, there are many questions — for instance, about his relationship
with indicted political fixer Tony Rezko that he could answer, that he has
not. What was the exact nature of his relationship with Mr. Rezko? How many
fundraisers did Mr. Rezko throw for him? How much money did Mr. Rezko bundle
for him? How many business meetings did Senator Obama attend that Mr. Rezko
was at? What was he doing at those business meetings? What favors did Senator
Obama perform for Mr. Rezko? So there’s an awful lot of information that,
if Senator Obama is interested in transparency, that he could come forward
and offer the American people.
Glass houses. Stones. Etcetera.
