It’s no secret that potential Republican Senate hopeful Joni Ernst has been a strong supporter of raising the gas tax in Iowa. The proposal would raise the gas tax by 45% within two years and impact all Iowans, especially middle class families and working people. But suddenly, Ernst has reversed her position and pulled her support from the plan to increase taxes, and her reasoning is crystal clear:
Georgia’s “increasingly crowded” Republican Senate primary just got a little less roomy, as failed 2010 gubernatorial candidate and disgraced ex-Komen Foundation Vice President Karen Handel joined the GOP primary field this morning. This brings the Republican primary candidate count to five, promising a long, expensive, and divisive primary for the GOP.
GOP OVERREACH: 2014 COULD LOOK A LOT LIKE 1998. Republicans are foaming at the mouth over Benghazi, AP, and the IRS. They are throwing out the ‘I’ word (impeachment) and gloating about months and months of hearings that will block progress on other issues people care about. The GOP excitement has many wondering if 2014 could look like a repeat of the 1998 midterms. A more moderate breed of Republicans came into power in 1994, stormed the Bastille with unpopular policies that led to electoral defeats in the presidential year.
Gabe Gomez’s 280,000 tax scam initially reported by the Boston Globe just got a whole lot worse.
***Similar statements will be sent today targeting House Republicans potentially running for Senate in Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota and West Virginia ***
Broun, Gingrey, Kingston & DC Extremists Playing Partisan Games, Wasting Taxpayer Resources Instead Of Helping Georgia Families
Five days after the initial Boston Globe report Republican investor Gabriel Gomez is still refusing to answer questions surrounding the revelation that he engaged in a seemingly fraudulent $280,000 tax scam that both the IRS and a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers have repeatedly condemned.
GOMEZ IN “A POLITICAL PRISON” OVER $280K TAX SCAM – REFUSES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. This week, Republican investor Gabe Gomez came under fire on the front page of the Boston Globe for using a seemingly fraudulent tax scheme involving a sham charity to fleece taxpayers out of thousands of dollars, despite warnings from the IRS and a
Republican Gabe Gomez says he is “proud” of the $280,000 tax scam he used to bilk the taxpayers. The Boston Globe yesterday revealed that Gomez, despite warnings from the IRS and a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers, used a seemingly fraudulent tax scheme with a sham charity to fleece taxpayers out of thousands of dollars… But Gomez won’t even say how much.
In 2012, Gabriel Gomez was the spokesman for a radical group that spent nearly half a million dollars attacking President Obama over the killing of Osama bin Laden and now he is changing his story and trying to distance himself from OPSEC, a shadowy superPAC that accepts unlimited undisclosed contributions.
Following repeated failures to recruit a top tier candidate in Iowa, national Republicans find themselves scrambling to come up with a candidate to run against Bruce Braley and seemingly settled on State Senator Joni Ernst.
