Franklin, Can you check and see if Romney has ever donated anything to Belmont? For instance, our library that isn't handicap friendly, our pool that cuts the bottoms of the feet of the children, our playgrounds that are shut down for safety hazards?

I'm wondering where this generosity is because I've never seen it and maybe it's hidden, and hidden extremely well, but can you check?

And if you find he's done nothing for Belmont, can you then tell me why we've got so many articles we have to read about him as though he mattered to anyone that lived here? As far as I'm concerned, he's just another tax evading millionaire that buries themselves on the hill, screaming about taxes while crawling through murky loopholes and wisking gains overseas.

The Romney's have donated $7 million to charity each of the last two years (total of $14 million). Does it really matter if it went a narrow subset of 24,000 people?

Again, we are having all these articles coming in about how Romney lived in Belmont and what do we think of this. Apparently, if he's done anything for Belmont other than hired illegals to work on his lawn (while calling them "a problem"), built the Mormon temple, or tried to get $80,000 from Belmont taxpayers to fix a drainage issue on his property, what has he done that would make us the least bit interested in his Presidential run? Has he ever given back to the Town he's lived in? Franklin, please look into this. Maybe we can end up naming the crumbling pool, empty playgrounds and defunct Library after him?!

Has Mitt Romney been charged or convicted of tax evasion? "tax evading millionaire". Tax evasion is a serious federal crime, this surely would have been made public? Or has he not paid his property (real estate and excise) taxes in his 30 years plus in Belmont? Based on the $3.5 million sale price of his Marsh St. home, he was paying $35,000 annually in property taxes for many years. Over 30 years (in today's dollars), he likely paid close to $1 million in taxes to the Town of Belmont.

Mitt Romney's father said the best way to judge a man was by reviewing several years of his tax returns. Every other Presidential candidate has done it and only Romney has refused. When Harry Reid said Mitt Romney had paid no taxes, John McCain who had seen the returns (and then chose Palin) didn't utter a word in Romney's defense. I'm just saying, let's see if he's as transaparent as he wants our government to be. If not, I'm not interested and no one else should be either.

Now if you are saying that Romney should have been exempt from paying property taxes in Belmont my guess is he'd agree with you. Apparently while he's good with imposing taxes on the middle class and pushing Romneycare on Massachusetts....and getting his dream of having it be the American Way....and then changing his mind about the whole business when the tea parties decided God was their medicine and that doctors are kooks and corporations are good.

Progress,

What a delight to read the product of rational thought. Too bad we don't see more of it here.

Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III

Reverend: For rational thought you should read Paul Ryan's speech. Even Fox News said it "Was Attempt To Set World Record For Blatant Lies". Yup, this is the dream team I want running the country. Belmont should be so proud :-)

The choice before us is simple. On one hand we have a brilliant campaigner, with little to show in previous accomplishments, and lackluster performance in his current job. On the other hand we have a lackluster campaigner, with a strong entrepreneurial record, and demonstrated ability to run a complex organization.

Which would you rather have as President?
Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III

The choice before us is simple. On one hand we have a brilliant president who has killed Bin Laden, sits on the highest stock market ever, created millions of jobs to a level higher than Bush ever did, and have national health care and social security to care for our most vulnerable children and seniors.

On the other hand we have a candidate running who screams transparency while hiding his tax returns and who started a company with his fathers millions and made more money leveraging company's into bankruptcy for profit while thousands lost their jobs and their retirement plans.

Which would you rather have as President?
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