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Clinton not ready to release tax returns
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Clinton not ready to release tax returns - Yahoo! News
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WASHINGTON - Resisting calls from Barack Obama to release her income tax returns, Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she would only do so if she secures the Democratic presidential nomination and contended her rival had been less than candid about his relationship with major campaign contributors.
After the former first lady acknowledged she had lent her campaign $5 million in personal funds, Sen. Obama suggested she release her tax records as he has done to give voters a better accounting of where her money comes from.
The Clintons have become wealthy since leaving the White House in 2001, largely through Bill Clinton's consulting and speaking fees and the couple's lucrative book deals.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton noted that Sen. Clinton had co-sponsored the nuclear regulatory legislation she now criticizes.
"Instead of playing the same Washington games that people are sick of, Senator Clinton should prove how fully vetted she is by finally releasing her tax returns so that voters can see where the millions of dollars she's dropped into her campaign are coming from," Burton said.
Clinton gave the interview on the eve of the so-called "Potomac Primary," in which Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia hold contests. She is expected to lose all three to Obama, adding to her weekend losses to him in contests in Nebraska, Washington state, Louisiana, Maine and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
In the interview, Clinton also was asked whether a "business or personal scandal" involving her husband could emerge and derail her candidacy.
"That's not going to happen," she said, adding "None of us can predict the future ... I'm very confident that will not happen.
Earlier Monday, the New York senator denied that her campaign is in trouble after the string of losses and her campaign manager's departure.
"I'm still ahead in the popular vote and in delegates," Clinton said, though the numbers do not fully support that statement.
An Associated Press tally shows Clinton with a slim lead among delegates — 1,147, compared to 1,124 for Obama. But an initial tabulation of the total popular vote showed Obama likely to pull ahead once the results of states that held caucuses are fully counted.
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Comment:
What is Hillary Clinton hiding?