On Monday, Braun was asked if she would release her tax returns, she she said "No." When pressed on why she wouldn't, she replied, "Because I don't want to."
A firestorm, albeit one containing chuckles from people such as myself who remember her chaotic six years in the US Senate, followed. By that evening she changed her mind about her returns.
Braun reported just $15,000 in income in 2009, and $225,000 in losses the year before. Her South Side home is encumbered by $2 million, she is trying to sell it for $1.9 million. She paid no federal income tax those years.
To keep her food company, Ambassador Organics, alive, Braun delayed paying property taxes on her home and took out additional mortages on that apparently now-underwater home.
As Mark Brown muses in the Chicago Sun-Times, Braun seems to be running for mayor because she needs a job.
But "Vote for Me Because I Need Work" is hardly an inspiring campaign slogan.
I sympathize with her financial struggles--friends and relatives of mine are enduring similar difficulties. But they are not running for mayor of Chicago.
She is still Carol Mostly Clown to me.
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