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Looking to keep the pressure on Mitt Romney to release more tax returns, President Barack Obama's campaign offered the Republican a deal on Friday: Release five years of returns, and we'll shut up about this.
Obama campaign manager Jim Messina pressed his case in a publicly released letter to his counterpart on Team Romney, Matt Rhoades. Messina said that the request for the tax returns covering 2007-2012 was "surely not unreasonable" but acknowledged the Republican candidate's concerns that more disclosures will merely lead to more requests for disclosure from Team Obama.
"So I am prepared to provide assurances on just that point: if the Governor will release five years of returns, I commit in turn that we will not criticize him for not releasing more--neither in ads nor in other public communications or commentary for the rest of the campaign," Messina wrote.
Rhoades responded quickly and in identical fashion, not explicitly rejecting the proposal but mockingly suggesting that Romney's taxes were the Obama campaign's "core issue."
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Looking to keep the pressure on Mitt Romney to release more tax returns, President Barack Obama's campaign offered the Republican a deal on Friday: Release five years of returns, and we'll shut up about this.
Obama campaign manager Jim Messina pressed his case in a publicly released letter to his counterpart on Team Romney, Matt Rhoades. Messina said that the request for the tax returns covering 2007-2012 was "surely not unreasonable" but acknowledged the Republican candidate's concerns that more disclosures will merely lead to more requests for disclosure from Team Obama.
"So I am prepared to provide assurances on just that point: if the Governor will release five years of returns, I commit in turn that we will not criticize him for not releasing more--neither in ads nor in other public communications or commentary for the rest of the campaign," Messina wrote.
Rhoades responded quickly and in identical fashion, not explicitly rejecting the proposal but mockingly suggesting that Romney's taxes were the Obama campaign's "core issue."
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