{"id":547497,"date":"2010-04-29T16:03:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0134804029e5970c"},"modified":"2010-04-29T16:03:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T20:03:21","slug":"republican-governor-candidate-brady-defends-way-he-released-tax-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547497","title":{"rendered":"Republican governor candidate Brady defends way he released tax returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Rick Pearson<\/em> at 3:02 p.m.
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SPRINGFIELD—Republican governor candidate Sen. Bill Brady today said he will not revisit the issue of the way he released income-tax information to the public last week and defended his decision not to release copies of his tax returns.<\/p>\n

Brady’s campaign allowed reporters to view and take notes off them during a three-hour period at his Springfield campaign headquarters last Friday. Today, the Republican state senator from Bloomington said he didn\u2019t offer actual copies of his return because he didn\u2019t want competitors to his home-building business waving them at prospective home buyers.\n<\/p>\n

Brady\u2019s tax information showed that he paid no federal income taxes in 2008, based on a loss of $116,679 and paid no federal tax last year because of the effects of losses and a federal stimulus tax break on his adjusted gross income of $119,910.
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<\/br>Speaking to reporters after an appearance at a Sangamon County Republican luncheon, Brady was asked why he made the decision to choose Springfield for viewing his tax information instead of the much larger media center of Chicago.
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<\/br>\u201cI think we\u2019ve often criticized governors for not living in Springfield, not being in the state capital,\u201d Brady said, referring to complaints raised about disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich\u2019s avoidance of Springfield. \u201cWe picked a location–the state of Illinois\u2019 capital.\u201d
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<\/br>Brady said no reporters who viewed his tax returns said they needed more than the three hour time period he allotted. But he said those calling for him to release copies of his tax returns, as many politicians do, don\u2019t \u201cunderstand the competitive nature of my business.\u201d
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<\/br>\u201cI have business partners. We\u2019re in a retail business. We\u2019re in a business where we sit down and we try to sell a home to people, and I don\u2019t feel it\u2019s proper that my competitors should have a copy of my tax returns that they\u2019re going to show people when we\u2019re negotiating about whether or not we\u2019re going to build them a home or not,\u201d Brady said.
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<\/br>Brady, however, had no problems touting his business during his talk to Sangamon County Republicans. He noted Brady Homes is involved with two subdivisions in Sangamon County \u201cif you\u2019re looking for a new house,\u201d and touted a federal tax credit for home purchases that expires at the end of this month.\u201d
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<\/br>\u201cJust a little plug. Brady Homes is the name of that company, if you didn\u2019t know. Help build the economy,\u201d Brady said. Later, he told reporters that it was \u201cimportant people know I\u2019m a businessman who is struggling just like most businesses I talk to in Illinois.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted by Rick Pearson at 3:02 p.m. SPRINGFIELD—Republican governor candidate Sen. Bill Brady today said he will not revisit the issue of the way he released income-tax information to the public last week and defended his decision not to release copies of his tax returns. Brady’s campaign allowed reporters to view and take notes off […]<\/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-547497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547497","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=547497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}