Post by fiberisgoodforyou on Oct 7, 2007 8:57:55 GMT -5
There was a debate last week between Karcher and Jen Beck I attended. First I found it amazing how Karcher boasted about her fine record of supporting affordable housing, then I was wondering about all the affordable housing that has been developed in her home town of Marlboro, I guess a "not in my backyard" approach to affordable housing if fine by Ellen Karcher!
She also talked about her FBI sting while a council woman, how she allowed to FBI to give her a "WIRE" while she met with corrupt contractors, yet as a senator she will not raise to the same ethical standard to address corrupt Abbott district that fleece our state our of BILLIONS, because she now needs her Abbott Senate Colleagues for their support (ahhh what about your constituents??)!?!?!?!
ANYWAY..I found this to be an interesting read, I though I would share...
rankandfilemonmouthrepublican.blogspot.com/2007/10/ellen-karcher-opens-mouth-inserts-foot.html
Ellen Karcher Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot (Should Take Fifth Amendment)
Way back in the Spring of 2007, I posted a report on Ellen Karcher’s property tax shenanigans in Marlboro. She did not disclose her farm income on her Ethics disclosure form. We asked the now famous question:
Senator, were you lying when you submitted your Ethics disclosure, or were you lying when you completed your Farmland Assessment application?
Well, today we got our answer: Both.
My incredibly well-researched post was finally picked up by someone in the mainstream media (uncredited, of course) and Senator Karcher, as always, opened her mouth and, as the famous quote proves, “removed all doubt”. (It is better to remain silent and appear a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt)
First, she plays dumb:
Karcher said she left the farm income off her disclosure reports inadvertently because "my husband files the forms, so I didn't know what the dollar amount was."
She stressed that she takes the disclosure rules so seriously she even reported $50 her son earned as an umpire at a fencing match.
Which is it Senator? Was it inadvertent, meaning you never thought about it, or was it intentional, meaning you thought about it, but “didn’t know what the dollar amount was” so you blew it off?
Are we expected to believe that this elected official, who claims to champion ethics, who made such a huge deal about omissions from John Bennett’s forms four years ago, who points out she takes the forms so seriously she even reported her son’s $50.00 for “refereeing a fencing match” (!) Completely forgot about the farm she works so hard to cultivate? With her poison ivy, her 10-15 year old trees, her pretty flowers and firewood? She is such a serious farmer that she completely forgot about the income?
It gets better. Apparently, Ellen Karcher is the only person in the State of New Jersey who can decide for themselves that she pays enough in property taxes:
"I don't know what they're saying if they think that paying $24,998 in property taxes isn't enough."
No Senator, it isn’t enough. Not when you lie on your disclosures to skip out on $14,000.00 plus in additional taxes. Not when Marlboro has one of the highest tax rates in the County. Not when you claim to be squeaky clean. Not when you claim to “not know” how much money your farm generates.
It has become perfectly clear to me that Ellen Karcher may very well be cheating on her income taxes. It is not a leap to go from “forgetting” to disclose income on the ethics disclosure to forgetting to report it on your income taxes. There may very well be more income going unreported:
Despite the small amount of sales reported, Karcher said she does sell more trees and wood, but "I don't go out and do a head count."
She lies twice. The Ethics Disclosures omitted income. Now she admits she under reports on her Farmland Assessment Application.
If she lies on her Ethics Disclosures, and she lies on the Farmland Assessment application by under reporting income, does she also under report on her tax returns? Once a cheat, always a cheat.
I am calling for her tax returns. Give them up Senator.
Prove you are not a crook.
She also talked about her FBI sting while a council woman, how she allowed to FBI to give her a "WIRE" while she met with corrupt contractors, yet as a senator she will not raise to the same ethical standard to address corrupt Abbott district that fleece our state our of BILLIONS, because she now needs her Abbott Senate Colleagues for their support (ahhh what about your constituents??)!?!?!?!
ANYWAY..I found this to be an interesting read, I though I would share...
rankandfilemonmouthrepublican.blogspot.com/2007/10/ellen-karcher-opens-mouth-inserts-foot.html
Ellen Karcher Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot (Should Take Fifth Amendment)
Way back in the Spring of 2007, I posted a report on Ellen Karcher’s property tax shenanigans in Marlboro. She did not disclose her farm income on her Ethics disclosure form. We asked the now famous question:
Senator, were you lying when you submitted your Ethics disclosure, or were you lying when you completed your Farmland Assessment application?
Well, today we got our answer: Both.
My incredibly well-researched post was finally picked up by someone in the mainstream media (uncredited, of course) and Senator Karcher, as always, opened her mouth and, as the famous quote proves, “removed all doubt”. (It is better to remain silent and appear a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt)
First, she plays dumb:
Karcher said she left the farm income off her disclosure reports inadvertently because "my husband files the forms, so I didn't know what the dollar amount was."
She stressed that she takes the disclosure rules so seriously she even reported $50 her son earned as an umpire at a fencing match.
Which is it Senator? Was it inadvertent, meaning you never thought about it, or was it intentional, meaning you thought about it, but “didn’t know what the dollar amount was” so you blew it off?
Are we expected to believe that this elected official, who claims to champion ethics, who made such a huge deal about omissions from John Bennett’s forms four years ago, who points out she takes the forms so seriously she even reported her son’s $50.00 for “refereeing a fencing match” (!) Completely forgot about the farm she works so hard to cultivate? With her poison ivy, her 10-15 year old trees, her pretty flowers and firewood? She is such a serious farmer that she completely forgot about the income?
It gets better. Apparently, Ellen Karcher is the only person in the State of New Jersey who can decide for themselves that she pays enough in property taxes:
"I don't know what they're saying if they think that paying $24,998 in property taxes isn't enough."
No Senator, it isn’t enough. Not when you lie on your disclosures to skip out on $14,000.00 plus in additional taxes. Not when Marlboro has one of the highest tax rates in the County. Not when you claim to be squeaky clean. Not when you claim to “not know” how much money your farm generates.
It has become perfectly clear to me that Ellen Karcher may very well be cheating on her income taxes. It is not a leap to go from “forgetting” to disclose income on the ethics disclosure to forgetting to report it on your income taxes. There may very well be more income going unreported:
Despite the small amount of sales reported, Karcher said she does sell more trees and wood, but "I don't go out and do a head count."
She lies twice. The Ethics Disclosures omitted income. Now she admits she under reports on her Farmland Assessment Application.
If she lies on her Ethics Disclosures, and she lies on the Farmland Assessment application by under reporting income, does she also under report on her tax returns? Once a cheat, always a cheat.
I am calling for her tax returns. Give them up Senator.
Prove you are not a crook.