Tag: Kirsten Gillibrand
Worst Senate Candidate Evar?
by Joshua Malbin on Feb.12, 2010, under New York, Politics
When it comes to his shadow run for Senate, Harold Ford is a New Yorker through and through. When it comes to paying taxes, though, he’s still a Tennessean — he’s never filed a New York return.
Ford claims to have moved to New York three years ago, and says paying “New York taxes” makes him a New Yorker. But his spokeswoman confirms to Gawker that he’s never filed a New York tax return — meaning that he’s never paid New York’s income tax, despite keeping an office and a residence in New York City as a vice chairman of Merrill Lynch since 2007…
Ford presumably decided that his real home was Tennessee, which conveniently has no income tax. Which means that, despite the fact that New York law requires part-time and nonresidents to pay income tax on money they earn in the state, Ford has shielded his entire Merrill Lynch salary from New York’s tax collectors for the past three years.
Even before this latest carpetbaggery revelation, the guy was averaging over 18 points behind Gillibrand in primary polling. Apart from his being buddies with Mike Bloomberg, is there any reason to take him remotely seriously as a candidate? Who pulls this kind of easily discovered stupid crap and thinks he can win? WTF?