40yearfan

Florida Dem Explains Missed Tax Payments
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — An employee mistake led to the Florida Democratic Party not paying some of its Social Security and payroll taxes in 2003, a former chairman said Wednesday in the wake of the party being slapped with a lien by the Internal Revenue Service.

Former party chief Scott Maddox (search), who is now seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, said a party comptroller filed the payments electronically, but they apparently were not received. The employee resigned Wednesday.

"She made a mistake and did not tell her supervisor," Maddox said.

While the party owes roughly $200,000 in delinquent payroll and Social Security taxes, the lien was placed Friday against the remaining $98,000 in its accounts, Leon County committeeman Jon Ausman said Tuesday.

Meanwhile, a former prosecutor was hired by the party Wednesday to investigate its failure to make the tax payments and to help resolve a $900,000 discrepancy on the party's balance sheet.

The state party's budget and finance committee voted Tuesday to ask for a new audit to account for the money it believes somehow disappeared from the books during 2003-2004, while Maddox was chairman.

Maddox said a new audit will show that "not a dime" is missing. "I was a good steward of the party's funds," he said.


Current Democratic Party Chairman Karen Thurman (search) disagreed.

"I can tell you that according to the audit that was done, the internal controls in this office were absolutely, unequivocally the worst," she said.

Maddox's two primary opponents, U.S. Rep. Jim Davis and state Sen. Rod Smith, did not comment on how the investigation might affect the governor's race.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,160505,00.html

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nidan

I assume all these little tidbits you post come from your Republican mail lists ?

40yearfan

nidan, did you not see the Associated Press tag on the article?

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swd1974

The democratic party is in shambles. Not just because of this article, but because of the way it has been run. Its is a far cry from the days of JFK.

The democratic party is almost in the same category as the green party or the reform party. Not yet, but not very far away. And its a shame. We need at least 2 parties. Id rather have 5 but not 1. Oh lord please not 1.

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Mulli

Julius Caesar preferred one political party. j/k

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nidan

Yes, but I was wondering how you find all these articles ?

swd1974

lol so would I if it was a GOOD party. unfortunately we dont have one single good one lol

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40yearfan

MSNBC and Fox News.

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Djaughe

I did...but I also laughed at yer link:

CardLogic

You've made a very good point!!!

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LoyaltyisaCurse

But I thought the mainstream media was a liberal bastion of bias.

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RedStorm

Me too because they usually buried by the liberal press.

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NickelBack

That's what I was thinking too - surely MSNBC would never ever run this huge story.

40yearfan

Uhhh, LIAC, the only place I found it was on Fox.

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NickelBack

I am sure it was:

http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories...0623dems.shtml

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ats_finances_1