Romney to Reid: 'Put up or shut up' (hahaha)

Romney to Reid: 'Put up or shut up'

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CNN's Dana Davidsen and Ashley Killough

(CNN) - Mitt Romney on Thursday pushed back against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's allegations that the presumptive GOP nominee has not been paying his taxes.

"It's time for Harry to put up or shut up," Romney said on Sean Hannity's radio show.

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Reid stood by the allegations on Thursday while speaking on the Senate floor.

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Romney has made public the full 2010 tax return and an estimate for 2011, with a pledge to release the full year once it's complete. He filed an extension for an October deadline.

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/02/romney-to-reid-put-up-or-shut-up/

20 Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Right Now

By Annie-Rose Strasser

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While these Republicans have downplayed the effects of Romney releasing his returns, the tax information may not be so innocuous to the campaign after all. Several experts have said they believe Romney could have paid little to no taxes at all in past years (particularly 2009).

UPDATE

National Review, the conservative publication whose interview is quoted in the first paragraph of this post, has just come out and asked Mitt Romney to release his tax returns. National Review are long-time Romney supporters; they endorsed him in 2008. Here is National Review’s editorial:

The Romney campaign says he has released as many returns as candidate John Kerry did in 2004, and cites Teresa Heinz Kerry’s refusal to release any of her tax returns. Neither is an apt comparison

Romney may feel impatience with requirements that the political culture imposes on a presidential candidate that he feels are pointless (and inconvenient). But he’s a politician running for the highest office in the land, and his current posture is probably unsustainable. In all likelihood, he won’t be able to maintain a position that looks secretive and is a departure from campaign conventions. The only question is whether he releases more returns now, or later — after playing more defense on the issue and sustaining more hits. There will surely be a press feeding frenzy over new returns, but better to weather it in the middle of July.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/17/530121/15-prominent-republicans-who-want-romney-to-release-more-tax-returns-right-now/