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Showing Original Post only (View all)Before I forget, no candidate with a D can run without releasing 8 years tax returns. [View all]
Anywhere in the country, anyone who wants to run in OUR party, must comply.
That is my new rule.
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Before I forget, no candidate with a D can run without releasing 8 years tax returns. [View all]
Eliot Rosewater
Nov 2018
OP
"Be the change you want to see". Regardless of what Republicans do, I want to see tax returns.
Tarheel_Dem
Nov 2018
#2
It would be great if both parties "adopted transparency", however, I'm not a Republican and have...
Tarheel_Dem
Nov 2018
#49
It's not wasted, because we get to choose who we want to represent us on the world stage, and not...
Tarheel_Dem
Nov 2018
#70
I understand that. If the candidate who wins the nomination of your parties primary refuses to
Autumn
Nov 2018
#156
What I said is... if you want to make it a rule for one party it's better to make it a law that
Autumn
Nov 2018
#158
I think it's a very reasonable request and should be a law, not a rule. Republicans will
Autumn
Nov 2018
#22
Love your responses and reasoning. I didnt anticipate any opposition to my idea.
Eliot Rosewater
Nov 2018
#38
If the OP lives in any number of states that allow ballot initiatives s/he would have the power.
xmas74
Nov 2018
#67
That would work as long as it's for both parties and IMO only the higher offices.
Autumn
Nov 2018
#71
They could , doesn't mean they will. I think that's pretty low on the priority list.
Autumn
Nov 2018
#168
That's exactly it, and you can't make one party do it when the other doesn't have to.
Autumn
Nov 2018
#23
For people who believe Sanders has no chance at getting the nomination there sure are
realmirage
Nov 2018
#25
"Lulz"? You don't see that expression used alot these days, especially here.
lapucelle
Nov 2018
#108
DONT tell me who my friends are, do NOT. You have no CLUE who I am and who my friends are.
Eliot Rosewater
Nov 2018
#32
You mean the party itself has this, or do you mean a bill in the House?
Eliot Rosewater
Nov 2018
#92
In Maryland and other states with ballot access laws, you cannot get onto the ballot
Gothmog
Nov 2018
#160
I don't understand why there is such resistance to requiring candidates to release tax returns...
George II
Nov 2018
#136
The Democratic Party can institute a rule requiring a release of tax returns...
George II
Nov 2018
#113
The individual state Democratic Parties make their rules. That's why some states have primaries...
George II
Nov 2018
#122
The DNC isn't stupid enough to adopt such a rule. What a rule like this is essentially saying is -
Midwestern Democrat
Nov 2018
#126
Did he say specifically why it violated the Constitution? Was it the US Constitution or California's
George II
Nov 2018
#112
There are two things involved, State laws and Party rules. Have those states...
George II
Nov 2018
#88
Make a clean break from the "Rules are for sissies" stance of the present administration
ProudLib72
Nov 2018
#62