Worse Tax Problem

Unfortunately for the left, Brooks is factually and contextually correct.
Unfortunately for Brooks, Maldonado is a weenie which has nothing to do with the current lies that Capps is telling and irrespective of her proven tax cheating.

Maybe we should cut Ms Capps a little slack.

She is likable and well liked and seems to genuinely concerned about using tax payer dollars to help people.

Clearly the tax system makes absolutely no sense to her. But then who CAN make any sense of if.

I'm sure she has someone else do her taxes for her so she cannot be totally responsible for the accuracy of her returns.

She's had 14 years on the job AFTER retiring from a full and satisfying career as a nurse. Is it really realistic and fair to expect someone of this age and background to actually understand this stuff?

I really wonder if it's really fair or sensitive to send her back to Washington to do a job that clearly overwhelms her. Anyone who truly loves her, as do we all, should put her best interests at heart and encourage her to retire before she embarrasses herself on a major and irredeemable way.

Thanks to Firestone for his self righteous diatribe about tax avoidance. I'm sure all aspects of his own personal tax paying history are impeccable.
I am also absolutely sure Firestone will be placing his vote for Romney in November, a vote that will show tax avoidance only really matters when applied to the opposition.

I never really cared much for blueblood Firestone as a representative and his mischievous political partys or even twisted ideals.

Likewise for I don't care for the little more 'independent' self promoting Maldonado for pretty much the same reasons.

Now I will vote for Capps again. I am in alignment with her voting record and consider her to be a genuine, reasonable, and nice. My skepticism causes me to be not entirely comfortable with the explanation given for the under-reported income from a typical, ordinary, accepted but corrupt under-the-table economy and income source that pervades across the American landscape. But at least Capps has made good on the lapse.

I saw a Lois Capps ad yesterday. She was lambasting Maldonado for "not paying his taxes while increasing yours". I don't see how she could approve that message with a straight face. The hypocrisy is no less than stunning.

Of all the issues, this is the one Firestone is concerned about.

The writer here is desperately spinning and continues to dump his reputation.

Maldo has been informed several times he and his corporation owe more than $400 thousand in unpaid taxes. They refuse to pay, several times. Maldonado will not pay his taxes and he wants to raise the taxes of middle income Americans as he supports the tax plan by Romney. Yes he does.

Maldo also will not admit this and continues to campaign with vagaries and nonanswers, and never will admit he would be just a loyal Republican soldier if he ever is elected to Congress.

Too bad they can't garnish campaign donations.

If Mr. Firestone is reading this the issue of Maldonado's tax disputes were mentioned on the John and Ken show several months ago. The John and Ken show is carried on the Los Angeles station KFI 640 AM 3-7 p.m. weekdays and this is where I first heard about it.

Mrs. Capps supported the Patriot Act and the National Defense Authorization Act so whether or not she's a "nice woman" as many assert, she certainly is not protecting our freedoms. Whether Maldonado is any different, I don't know, but given his silence on these issues, I would suspect not.

Once again, it seems to come down to who can sling more mud at their opponent in an election of the lesser of two evils.

Apparently Maldonado is not any different on these issues, probably worse given it's his Party that initiated the NDAA, the "War on Drugs" "The War on Terror", The "Patriot" Act . At least Capps doesn't create the abominations she rubber stamps.

Well over a decade in office, and Lois can't run a single tv ad "about Lois." And yes the hypocricy that the old dear should get a free pass on her own tax problems is laughable. "Nothing to see here folks, just move along, Lois is genuine, Lois is nice ....."

Capps informed the IRS of her error when she or her people found it out; Maldonado's family agri-business has been hounded by the IRS for some time... it's quite a difference.
Firestone's blatantly one-sided letter should be amusing as well as offensive, although the Capps ad vs. Maldonado should be beneath her as a sitting member of Congress.
Deeper issues are: will Maldonado support extending the middle-class tax cut of 2003 AND letting the 2002 ginormous tax cut for the 1% expire?? What about the 8.2% unemployment? Will we fund public education? Extend Obamacare (ACA)?! Cut the Pentagon budget in half?
These are big issues before the next Congress; neither candidate wants to talk turkey about them.
Still,
Vote for Capps.

KV-That is an insane defense of an un-defensable position. The supposed acumen and morality of the left should have made taking care of these abominations easy. Have you forgotten that Obama also owned the Congress and Senate for two years? For gawdsakes does anyone take responsibility for anything...

Bill Clausen, glad to hear you listen to John and Ken as well. They are very entertaining and get it right almost all the time. A few months ago I heard Maldonado's name and knew it sounded familiar. He stabbed the republican party in the back a few years ago when he was the swing vote on a democratic budget plan in the California Senate. He is a sell out, but like you said, lesser of two evils...

Does Abel Maldonado support the Patriot Act?

I don't think he's ever made any public statements about it one way or the other. No surprise since his career has been in state politics.

But I do know the Republican party that supports Maldonado has been the majority that's extended the Patriot Act three times in a row now.

Maldonado wants to steer way clear of the issues, because in many ways he wouldn't differ from Capps- he'd just be more vicious and explicit.
And Italiansurg completely misread my previous comment.