Fellow blogger The Galvin Opinion gave me a heads-up that this blogspot was mentioned today in NewsMax.
Geeze...I am...speechless...
But, the important thing is this - the issue I raised last week about Heinz-Kerry's possible problem with Nannygate-ish issues is finally coming to light!
NewsMax is reporting this:
Does John Kerry, whose billionaire wife, Teresa, employs a small army of housekeepers, gardeners, cooks, chauffeurs, butlers and other hired help at her five estates around the country, have a Nannygate problem?
Two calls this week to the Kerry campaign press office asking if Mrs. Heinz has paid Social Security taxes on her domestic staff have so far gone unreturned.
I think it is important to get to the bottom of this - and quickly. If there is nothing to hide, why is THK being so coy about releasing only the first two pages of her tax return?
If there are no problems with her servants - how they are being paid and BY WHOM - then tell us....but the problem on page 2 of her tax return is a first clue, say I.
NewsMax goes on:
Some say, however, that even the small bit of information revealed in the Kerry campaign's two-page tax document dump last Friday show telltale signs that the Heinz Kerrys do indeed have a Nannygate problem.
The Internet blog site "Desert Rat Ramblings" noted, for instance:
"Lines 55 and 59 on [Teresa's] Form 1040 are Social Security and Medicare taxes paid to Household employees, ie: nannies; housekeepers; gardeners; etc. ... What Heinz-Kerry is claiming on her tax return for Household 'wages' extrapolates to approximately $7,500 - $8,000/year.
"$8,000 a year paid to household staff from a billionaire?"
Aside from Social Security taxes, questions about whether the would-be first couple obtained the proper I-9 immigration forms from their employees, and maintained proper W-2 records, have also gone unanswered.
Only a press corps that was actively working for a Kerry win would have let these questions fester till the last two weeks of the campaign.
Absent more thorough media scrutiny - or the Kerry campaign's decision to be more forthcoming about Teresa's finances - the American public would be right to conclude that something is being covered-up.
Inquiring minds want to know......
DR
