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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (124796)	5/24/2008 7:40:17 PM
From: Jane4IceCream	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Only if it is SeachRE and he aint no b/f of mine!! Jane

To: Land Shark who wrote (124796)	5/25/2008 10:05:35 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

The Franken campaign has played down the significance of the revelations first raised on Mr. Brodkorb’s site, but there are signs the tax problems may be trouble for Mr. Franken, a former comedian who has worked hard to show voters that his campaign is serious. A recent poll of voters by The Minneapolis Star Tribune that showed Mr. Coleman leading Mr. Franken (though within the margin of error) also found that 42 percent of those polled were not satisfied with Mr. Franken’s explanations of his tax problems; 28 percent said the problems made them less likely to vote for him. “This looks like random incompetence mostly,” said Lawrence Jacobs, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota. “But Franken has taken a pounding, getting tattooed by story after story, which is preventing him from making this a referendum on the incumbent.” In March, Mr. Brodkorb reported that Mr. Franken’s corporation, Alan Franken Inc., owed a penalty of $25,000 to the state compensation board in New York for failing to carry workers’ compensation insurance from 2002 to 2005. State officials said they sent Mr. Franken 12 letters on the matter, but received no answer. Mr. Franken, who has since paid the debt, declined an interview on the issue. Andy Barr, a spokesman for the campaign, said Mr. Franken had not known of the oversight by the corporation (which consisted of Mr. Franken, his wife, Franni, and an assistant or two), and received none of the letters. The state’s letters were sent to the Frankens’ New York apartment, officials there say; the couple moved to Minnesota at the end of 2005, though the family still owns the apartment. In April, Mr. Brodkorb wrote that Mr. Franken’s company was in forfeiture in California. Other reporters found the reason: California authorities said Mr. Franken’s company had failed to pay franchise tax fees from 2003 to 2006, and owed nearly $5,000, which Mr. Franken has since paid. Mr. Franken’s company paid no franchise taxes to the state in those years, Mr. Barr said, because Mr. Franken believed his accounting firm had shut down the corporation after 2002.