Subject: Sign my letter to the Romney campaign
From: "Jim Messina, BarackObama.com" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:09:56 -0400

Hunter --

Friday morning, I sent a letter to Mitt Romney's campaign
manager, asking that Romney release just five years of tax
returns. And I made a commitment that, if he does, this
campaign would not demand more.

You should add your name:

http://my.barackobama.com/Release-the-Returns17

Here's why:

Right now, our opponent is proposing a $2,000 tax increase
on middle-class families with kids in order to pay for tax
breaks for millionaires like him.

He's asking Americans to put him in charge of their taxes,
while refusing to come clean about his own.

This isn't going away because voters deserve better, and
everyone but the Romney campaign seems to recognize that.

Call for Mitt Romney to join President Obama in this basic
and traditional act of transparency. Add your name:

http://my.barackobama.com/Release-the-Returns17

Romney's refusal to release his returns is raising more
questions than he's been willing to answer.

According to the one full year of returns he has released,
Romney paid 13.9% in taxes on his income. Thursday, he
said he went back and looked, and has never paid less than
13% over the last ten years.

Now we're asking him to put his money where his mouth is.

It is absolutely relevant for us to ask how much a
presidential candidate paid in taxes, if he sheltered
his money or tried to get out of paying taxes at all, why
he started -- and continues to own -- a corporation
offshore in Bermuda, why he keeps his finances offshore in
the Cayman Islands, and why he opened a Swiss bank account.

In refusing to be transparent about it, he's not only
breaking the trust he's asking voters to place in him,
but also three decades of precedent that began with his own
father's presidential campaign in 1968.

This issue isn't going away, and for good reason. Tell
Romney to follow 30 years of precedent and release his tax
returns:

http://my.barackobama.com/Release-the-Returns17

Thanks,

Messina

Jim Messina
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

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