Mitt Romney's Swiss Bank Account Hammered By Democratic Convention
Speakers
Posted: 09/04/2012
11:04 pm Updated: 09/05/2012 10:14 am
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Mitt Romney's
Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island investments were hot topics on the
opening night of the Democratic National Convention, with several leading
Democrats hammering the Republican presidential candidate about them in their
speeches.
"Mitt Romney has so little
economic patriotism that even his money needs a passport," charged former
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland in his fiery speech Tuesday night. "It summers on
the beaches of the Cayman Islands and winters on the slopes of the Swiss Alps.
In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures
teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My
friends, any man who aspires to be our president should keep both his treasure
and his heart in the United States of America. And it's well past time for Mitt
Romney to come clean with the American people."
Romney previously had a Swiss
bank account and has millions invested in funds based in the Cayman Islands.
"Instead of safeguarding our
seniors, Romney and Ryan would end the guarantee of Medicare and replace it
with a voucher in order to give bigger tax breaks to billionaires," said
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley. "Instead of investing in America, they hide
their money in Swiss bank accounts and ship our jobs to China. Swiss bank
accounts never built an American bridge. Swiss bank accounts don't put cops on
the beat or teachers in our classrooms. Swiss bank accounts never created
American jobs!"
"Governor Romney, just
because you bank against the United States of America doesn’t mean the rest of
us are willing to sell her out," O'Malley said. "We are
Americans."
Women's rights advocate Lilly
Ledbetter also joined in, noting that women still earn just 77 cents for every
dollar men make.
"Maybe 23 cents doesn't
sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island
Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars," Ledbetter said.
"But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every
paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured
in dollars."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D-Nev.) continued his attacks on Romney for his refusal to release his more
information on his taxes. Romney has released his 2010 tax returns and an
estimate for 2011, although he has promised to disclose his 2011 return this
fall. He has refused to follow the example of his father and release 12 years
of his tax information to the public.
"Never in modern American
history has a presidential candidate tried so hard to hide himself from the
people he hopes to serve," Reid said during his speech at the convention.
"When you look at the one tax return he has released, it's obvious why.
It's obvious why there's only been one. We learned that he pays a lower tax
rate than middle class families. We learned he chose Swiss bank accounts and
Cayman Islands tax shelters over American institutions. And we can only imagine
what new secrets would be revealed if he showed the American people a dozen
years of tax returns -- like his father did."
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