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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Political Qualifications?
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:53:48 -0500

Is it just me, or is someone who failed to pay taxes he owed not the best candidate for head of the Treasury Department? It's considered just a 'complication', not a disqualification, and Obama still supports him?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090113/D95MGFTO1.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the economic rescue effort disclosed to senators Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication in an otherwise smooth path to confirmation.

Timothy Geithner paid most of the past-due taxes days before Obama announced his nomination in November, an Obama transition official said. The unpaid taxes were discovered by Obama's transition team while investigating Geithner's background, the official said.

Lynn Wigglesworth





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