July 23, 2012 09:29 PM UTC

Ken Buck Defends Tax Privacy, Poor Choice as Spokesman

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• by: Tom

In today’s Greeley Tribune, Ken Buck defends Mitt Romney’s decision to release only two years of his tax returns. Highlighting his own choice of releasing a decade of financial information during his 2008 senate campaign, Buck pointed to the increased scrutiny and potential for dirty tricks in a presidential campaign.

“It’s unfortunate. I think what we want to do is we want to judge people based on their performance, and yet so little of what we hear in commercials has to do with performance. It has to do with the nonsense that they dig up in tax returns and other ways.”

https://www.greeleytribune.com/…

Ahem. I’m assuming that Ken decided to participate in this interview on his own and not as a campaign surrogate since the Romney campaign could do better than draft the dude with a tendency to unconstitutionally seize and use tax records to dig for information. Buck is apparently singing from the GOP hymn book since he goes on to try and establish an equivalence between Obama’s college transcripts and Romney’s tax returns, but he seems to be completely oblivious to his own history with the misuse of privileged information. That, or he’s inadvertently giving away his next tactic in trawling for undocumented immigrants– seize transcripts and search for everybody who failed English!