Obama Camp, Getting Down To Business, Slams Hillary On Tax Returns
Obama campaign advisers are already making good on promises to confront Hillary much more aggressively on new fronts, hammering her on a conference call over her failure to release her tax returns.
And in the process, Obama senior adviser David Axelrod got off a pretty good line mocking Hillary's recent "change you can xerox" howler:
"There is no reason she cannot realease her 2006 returns. Talk about change you can Xerox. You can Xerox your tax returns."
Obama advisers, clearly signaling to supporters that they will take aggressive steps to contain whatever momentum Hillary has coming out of yesterday's wins, charged that her refusal to release the returns suggested that she would be less than forthcoming as president.
In response, Hillary spokesperson Howard Wolfson sought to shift the discussion back to the Rezko story, a tale the Hillary camp will be hitting on relentlessly in the weeks ahead. "Their tax returns since they left the White House will be made available on or around April 15," Wolfson said, speaking of the Clintons. "Instead of making false attacks, we urge Senator Obama to release all relevant financial and other information related to indicted political fixer Tony Rezko."
As Ben Smith notes, however, "neither campaign has produced any evidence that there's some particular, damning piece of information in the documents they're asking for."
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