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In reply to the discussion: Special report: Sanders campaign millions go to mystery firm. (Tax returns must include spouses) [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Hillary seems to have always been a private person that is hesitant to release stuff that she feels is private, even when the stuff is mundane. Her speeches could have been before groups like women and female executives and she could have felt what was said in that setting was never meant to be public. I was disappointed that she didn't release the transcripts and personal emails that eventually came out and were non issues, by holding out, I think that she allowed them to become major issues that made her look like she had something to hide.
Bernie and tax returns is an entirely different animal, as is Bernie's position on guns. Bernie passes himself off as an Everyman, but he owns fairly expensive real estate, how did that happen? Also, what are his investments. A lot was made of Hillary, who is worth around $35-$50 million approximately owning a few stocks in pipeline companies, when the fact is a person with that much money often don't make the investments themselves and typically only provide philosophical guidance to people that do the investments, and generally only companies that they really and truly have issues with are eliminated (i.e., no gun manufacturers, no Cigarrette makers, ect.). I can bet you that I own oil company stocks and oil pipeline stocks and don't know about it, because I don't go to that level of granularity. When Bernie is asked about guns, he changes the subject, I can respects him saying that he lives in Vermont and people have guns for hunting and what they believe is protection, Kirsten Gillibrand made the same statement years back and lots of the people fawning over Bernie are ripping her apart, the difference is that Kirsten has taken a strong stand on illegal guns, assault weapons and wise restrictions on who can buy guns.