{"id":541374,"date":"2010-04-22T19:34:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0133ece10abd970b"},"modified":"2010-04-22T19:34:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:34:14","slug":"brady-says-tax-returns-will-reflect-recessions-hit-on-his-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541374","title":{"rendered":"Brady says tax returns will reflect recession&#8217;s hit on his income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by David Heinzmann<\/em> at 6:35 p.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Without disclosing specific details, Republican governor candidate Bill Brady said today that his income tax returns will reflect that it has been a tough couple years in the home building business.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>&quot;They will show that my family business is struggling in an economy that has been a burden on all businesses in Illinois. It has not been good,&quot; said Brady, a state senator from Bloomington whose downstate construction business made him wealthy during the boom years of the 1990s.\n<\/p>\n<p>Brady is releasing his tax returns after Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, his rival in November for the governor&#8217;s mansion, pressured him to do so. Quinn <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/clout_st\/2010\/04\/quinn-releases-tax-returns-calls-on-foe-to-do-same.html\">released his tax returns<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters will get a chance to look at Brady&#8217;s tax records for three hours Friday afternoon at his Springfield campaign office. That led to complaints from some reporters in Chicago who don&#8217;t want to drive to the capital.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am making available my tax returns. You can scrutinize them all you want,&quot; said Brady at a news conference at a Chicago hotel where a closed-door fundraiser is being held to benefit the Illinois Republican Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by David Heinzmann at 6:35 p.m.Without disclosing specific details, Republican governor candidate Bill Brady said today that his income tax returns will reflect that it has been a tough couple years in the home building business. &quot;They will show that my family business is struggling in an economy that has been a burden on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}