"Hey Frank, What's in the Bank?" Pt. III

Fast Buck Frankie? (4.00 / 1)

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Sun Oct 17, 2010 at 08:35:54 AM CDT

a Kantner joint n/t (0.00 / 0)

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by: JonnyBBad @ Sun Oct 17, 2010 at 13:31:37 PM CDT

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Here's a diary on the gift tax, which might be of (0.00 / 0)

interest.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

The gift tax seems designed as a back-stop to prevent the evasion of the estate tax.

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by: hannah @ Sun Oct 17, 2010 at 09:37:17 AM CDT

speaking of the Wikipedia (0.00 / 0)

I edited the "Controversies" section of his Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

My version has lasted the night and may stand for a while.  There was a spirited edit war in 2009 but since then there has been surprisingly little interest in it.  The Fish & Game Club story used to be in there but it tends to be deleted when added back in.  Here it is:

Guinta has been challenged on the origins of personal loans to his own campaign to the tune of of $355,000. Guinta claims to have saved this money over the course of his career from real estate deals and from consulting work, but has refused to provide documentation to verify this veracity of this statement. His opponents have claimed that the funds came from an illegal donation by Guinta's relatives. The issue first came up during the Republican primary, but Guinta won anyway. In October 2010, New Hampshire Public Radio  political reporter Josh Greenberg tried to verify the verifiable aspects of Guinta's claims. Guinta almost certainly made less than $100,000 from his known real estate deals (involving four residential properties in Manchester.) His other activities seemed unlikely to generate enough income to accumulate a quarter of a million dollars' savings. One of his past political jobs, as a New Hampshire State Representative, has a notoriously low salary- $100 per year- although like most of his colleagues he held down outside jobs during his New Hampshire House service. However, his two later political jobs paid somewhat higher salaries- but not large enough to explain his large savings, which were in any case not reflected on any of the many financial disclosure forms he filed over the years. (He made about $55,000/year as a Congressional aide and $72,000 a year as Mayor of Manchester.)

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Mon Oct 18, 2010 at 07:36:32 AM CDT

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"verify this veracity of this statement"? (0.00 / 0)

What th...?

Someone who worked on the article before me put that phrase in. Sorry about not fixing that.

I was the one who put in "tried to verify the verifiable aspects".

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Mon Oct 18, 2010 at 07:39:46 AM CDT

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the Union Leader (0.00 / 0)

The Union Leader hasn't covered this story at all, if I am not mistaken.  They have however found other scandals to cover.

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Sun Oct 17, 2010 at 09:43:12 AM CDT

Separate interviews this AM, Carol and Frank, on WMUR. (4.00 / 1)

Asked Carol about the deficit; she handled it well (I thought).

Led off asking Frank about the money. Asked him repeatedly why he wouldn't produce a bank statement so they could move on.

Stonewall.

Spilliotes is right.

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by: elwood @ Sun Oct 17, 2010 at 10:27:32 AM CDT

Guinta: "Standing on Principle" (4.00 / 1)

As Elwood points out today on WMUR Close Up Josh McLevin opened and closed the segment with Guintat on the 355,000

Guinta spins his refusal to disclose bank statements etc. as "standing on principle"

The issue isn't going away, but Guinta is running out the clock on it.

Keep the pressure on.

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by: Chaz Proulx @ Sun Oct 17, 2010 at 10:41:22 AM CDT

standing on his parents principal ? (0.00 / 0)

Principal and interest or principles? Guinta has plenty of the former and none of the latter. We need a 'statement' statement Frank.

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by: JonnyBBad @ Sun Oct 17, 2010 at 13:36:02 PM CDT

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Exactly (4.00 / 1)

what principal is that?  That the laws don't apply to him?

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Sun Oct 17, 2010 at 14:13:30 PM CDT

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Good one John (4.00 / 1)

I like that. Standing on his parents bank account. Or worse.

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by: Chaz Proulx @ Sun Oct 17, 2010 at 16:22:43 PM CDT

There's not really a way that Guinta holds this seat (4.00 / 1)

Even if it's a Repub controlled Congress in Jan, I don't think this is the sort of ethics thing you can dodge.

Maybe some space will free up soon in the Parole Board Leader to cover what's becoming a national story.

Or they could just keep giving it to DiStaso's roundup, that seems fair.

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by: Mike Caulfield @ Mon Oct 18, 2010 at 05:50:11 AM CDT