Political pundit Ed Rollins pummeled by debt

[Newsjock]

Source: Detroit News

The architect of President Reagan's landslide 1984 re-election campaign, heavyweight CNN political consultant Ed Rollins, owes more than $1.33 million in state and federal taxes, records show.

Rollins, 66, who has served in the administrations of four presidents, is a senior political contributor for CNN and senior fellow at Hofstra University's Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency.

He also served as national campaign chairman for Mike Huckabee's presidential run last year.


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[Soylent Brice]

1. how fiscally conservative of him.

[maglatinavi]

40. tax debt

How in the name of Heaven can any one allow a debt to grow so enormously? How any one in the public eye be so careless...or just a rebel...???
:puffpiece: :puffpiece: :puffpiece: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Wassamattah, Eddie? That trickle-down thingie didn't work out for ya?

Another tax-cheatin' bastid! He deserves all that is coming his way, although these shitweasels always manage to land back on their feet somehow. I do not wish him well, and I'll take the karmic hit for my lack of sympathy.

[no limit]

3. I would love to dig up some clips from him when Obama had some tax issues with his nominees

[Syrinx]

19. .

ED ROLLINS: Obviously, a guy who basically has been in the treasury department, a guy who's going to go back in the treasury and be the chief law enforcement officer in the treasury, should be paying his taxes.

DOBBS: Well, he --

ZIMMERMAN: Well, let me --

ROLLINS: -- to pay his taxes?

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/14/ldt.01.html

[alp227]

23. YAWNNNN....more of the same typical conservative hypocrisy

Let's see, a preacher who denounced homosexuality from his pulpit gets caught pimping with other men.

The author of the "Book of Virtues" had a gambling problem.

Several Republicans who profess "family values" and opposition to same-sex marriage get involved in extramarital affairs.

Now a former advisor to the greatest president of all time* dislikes our current president's failed cabinet nominees for tax issues and the current administration for wasting money but has no problem borrowing nonstop money on his own (and neither with the previous president's administration spending, spending, spending on an unnecessary war in Iraq)

*:sarcasm:

[ooglymoogly]

27. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

Hope that safety net, y'all have been cutting so many giant holes in, is there for ya when you plummet into the cavernous cracks you've gouged out on your way into hell.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Republicans will tell you, he's a mean bastard. nt

[defendandprotect]

5. At times, I've noticed him on various talk shows -- !!! Why is this guy still around?

[grasswire]

7. well, there's this...

...he once worked for Robert Kennedy and the Bushes hate him.

He has an interesting and very full biography. Sure, he's a flawed man, but he's smart and knows where ALL the bodies are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Rollins

[defendandprotect]

34. Well, lots of smart people around whom we NEVER see on TV . . .

and I think Rollins knows where the bodies are buried because he helped bury them.

Isn't this the guy who was paying "black" Preachers $500-600 NOT to tell their AA

members to go out to vote?

Do I perhaps have him confused with someone else?

[grasswire]

35. you are right on both counts

But if you only want American airwaves to allow political operatives who are squeaky clean, well I think that's stifling free speech and infantilizing the audience members who, after all, are perfectly capable of finding the history of any pundit and judging what he/she says accordingly.

I always support MORE information and MORE dialogue and MORE input from participants in history, not less.

[defendandprotect]

37. Well then we need to see much more of former Gov. Spitzer . . . equal time ...

[Ian David]

6. Former McCain adviser finds that individual health insurance market he once touted isn't so great...

See also:

Former McCain adviser finds that individual health insurance market he once touted isn't so great...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6907757

Libertarian Legacy? Ron Paul's Campaign Manager, 49, Dies Uninsured, Of Pneumonia, Leaving family $400,000 Debt
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Libertarian-Legacy--Ron-Pa-by-Rob-Kall-080705-175.html

[katkat]

8. does no good

Rollins, McCain;s adviser, Paul's former employee - so now they know/knew, but it does the goal of healthcare no good as long as the fatcats in Congress have their health insurance plan and are raking in enough money so they could even afford to go without insurance.

Still, I'd like to see them stripped of their insurance, some would see the light.

[Hawkeye-X]

9. Let me see if I can produce a tear.. really..

Nope, can't do it.

:nopity:

Suck it up, and deal with it, Reagan ass-kisser.

[LynneSin]

28. Closest I'd get to a tear is if I happen to read this while peeling onions.

Perhaps reading this while peeling onions might keep me from crying - it would have that much of an impact on my tear ducts.

[RedCloud]

10. Throw the bum in jail!

[valerief]

11. As Leona said, "Only little people pay taxes." And she wasn't talking about short people. nt

[RFKHumphreyObama]

12. Before anybody starts crying for him

Rollins worked as the campaign manager for Christine Todd Whitman in her 1993 New Jersey gubernatorial race. After organizing a campaign that led to Whitman's come-from-behind victory, Rollins claimed to TIME magazine that he secretly paid black ministers and Democratic campaign workers in order to suppress voter turnout.

"We went into black churches and we basically said to ministers who had endorsed Florio, 'Do you have a special project?' And they said, 'We've already endorsed Florio.' We said, 'That's fine, don't get up on the Sunday pulpit and preach. We know you've endorsed him, but don't get up there and say it's your moral obligation that you go on Tuesday to vote for Jim Florio.'" After public outcry and calls for an investigation, Rollins partially retracted some of these claims telling People magazine that his comments were "an exaggeration that turned out to be inaccurate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Rollins

[question everything]

13. What about that little thingie of separation of state and church?

Ministers endorsing anyone from the pulpit?

[The Wizard]

31. The ministers weren't endorsing anyone

from the pulpit, but they would always encourage their congregation to vote on election day, and they voted predominantly Democratic. Rollins bought their silence. Rumor has it Leonard Coleman, who was later named the President of baseball's National League and Lana Hooks later named Whitman's Secretary of State were the ones who delivered the money to the black ministers.

[BonnieJW]

14. Karma's a bitch.

[KamaAina]

18. I think I'll get a female dog and name her Karma

:P

[Liberal_in_LA]

36. yup

[4_TN_TITANS]

15. Not one ounce of sympathy from me.

Both my grandfathers retired from the IRS and I have no sympathy for these cheats. I pay my fair and square share, he should get the jail time he deserves for stealing from those of us who pay.

[devilgrrl]

16. Couldn't have happened to nicer guy.

:nopity:

[avaistheone1]

17. Supposedly Rollins has no health insurance either.

How fitting.

[Skink]

20. Automatically enroll him in the Public Option.

[Holy Moly]

21. Saint Reagan shalt...

Dearest Rollie,
Repent not,
for thy guardian angel,
sacred Saint Reagan,
who art in Heaven,
shalt surely trickle a little
liquid pity down upon thee...
for thou art surely one of
His most favorite receptacles
of holy body waste.

[LynneSin]

29. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[Canuckistanian]

38. Welcome to DU

We need an official poet!

:toast:
:hi:

[gratuitous]

22. "Heavyweight" consultant?

Wait for the inevitable yammering about making an issue out of Rollins' considerable avoirdupois.

Here's hoping he dies penniless in the gutter with the dogs licking his open sores. Just like Lazarus in Jesus' story!

[ej510]

24. The hypocrite party.

:rofl:

[Boudica the Lyoness]

25. Rollins is the turd who got Nethercutt elected.

Stupid George Nethercutt who defeated, in 1984, Speaker of the House Tom Foley in WA's 5th. Now we have the 'dump as a bag of rocks' Cathy McMorris Rodgers to put up with.
I'm so glad Ed Rollins is such deep debt. I hope he stays in it.

[LynneSin]

26. Karma is a bitch

I still remember what he did during to get Christie Todd Whitman elected - he was just as disgusting as those preachers who accepted his money (Rollins went to predominantly African-American churches and paid for the preachers to NOT tell their congregations to go out and vote)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Rollins#1993_Gubernatorial_Campaign

1993 Gubernatorial Campaign
Rollins worked as the campaign manager for Christine Todd Whitman in her 1993 New Jersey gubernatorial race. After organizing a campaign that led to Whitman's come-from-behind victory, Rollins claimed to TIME magazine that he secretly paid black ministers and Democratic campaign workers in order to suppress voter turnout.

"We went into black churches and we basically said to ministers who had endorsed Florio, 'Do you have a special project?' And they said, 'We've already endorsed Florio.' We said, 'That's fine, don't get up on the Sunday pulpit and preach. We know you've endorsed him, but don't get up there and say it's your moral obligation that you go on Tuesday to vote for Jim Florio.'" After public outcry and calls for an investigation, Rollins partially retracted some of these claims telling People magazine that his comments were "an exaggeration that turned out to be inaccurate."

[The Wizard]

30. Maybe he can use

some of the "walking around" money he distributed to help ram Christie Whitmann down our throats and allowed her to bankrupt the State treasury. Working for the dark side has its consequences. Then again, when is Karl Rove going to get what he deserves?

[CrispyQ]

32. How the hell does this happen?

A few years ago we forgot to report approximately $250 in interest income & the IRS was all over us like flies on shit. Rollins owes over a fucking million & they're just getting around to him?

WHAT THE FUCK????

[GreenTea]

33. Republican slime Rollins is over 65 so he has Medicare, thanks to the liberals who fought for such

needed health care bills that Rollins, Reagan and every republican has attacked constantly since Medicares was first proposed and since it's inception.

Just as the republicans are now attacking health care and the public option for all that is long over due...These same greedy republican pigs care nothing about the American people's well being....the republicans care ONLY for corporate profits....government for corporations over workers that's republican ideology.

[Joe Bacon]

39. So, do you like all that karma biting you in the ass, Ed?

What goes round comes round, Ed!

SCREW YOU AND THE GODDAMN ELEPHANT YOU RODE IN ON, ED, SCREW YOU!