Dear fellow tax hikers, this weekend we learned that our endorsed candidate for Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges is a tax cheat in addition to being a convicted criminal. On Friday the Dayton Daily News originally reported that Borges owed a staggering $493,624 in federal taxes and $98,397 in state taxes.
Later, the DDN reported that due to an error Borges owes "only" $168,161 in federal taxes and expects to have the state bill reduced too. He previously had tax liens in 1999 and 2004.
On the eve of our favorite day of the year, Tax Day, we are struggling to make sense of this. We have no problem with Matt Borges being a convicted criminal. In fact, we think it's kind of sexy. But can we, Republicans for Higher Taxes, excuse someone for not paying their taxes?
We have decided to stand behind our endorsement. Being Matt Borges means never having to obey the law. Just ask Rob Portman, John Kasich, John Boehner, Mike DeWine, Josh Mandel, Dave Yost, and 2010 Tax Hiker of the Year Jon Husted, all of whom have excused Borges' ongoing inability to follow the law. If they don't care about good citizenship, why should we?
We still believe Matt Borges is the best choice to return the GOP back the high-tax, Culture of Corruption days we enjoyed under the legendary Bob Taft and Betty Montgomery. But we would like Matt to get those taxes paid soon. Lots of us welfare recipients are depending on it.
I think Matt Borges for ORP Chair would be a great thing. Republicans will never be able to talk about all our Cuyahoga County corruption if this tax-cheating criminal is their leader.
ReplyDeleteWhere does he stand on baby killing? Better yet, is he in favor of taxpayers paying for abortion? That would seal the deal for me.
ReplyDeleteMatt Borges needs to hire me and my expert campaign consultin service for his bid to become Ohio Republican Party chairman. I can do for him what I did for Kevin DeWine, Jean Schmidt, Tom Weidman, Pete Beck, Virgil Lovitt, Tom Brinkman and all my other clients who haven't ever won anything, ever.
ReplyDeleteI don't care where he stands on the issues. Working for a Democrat, being an active tea partier, and all, I am all over the place politically. What I really and truly want to know is if he will join me on my near-decade-long crusade to drive Colerain Township's Fiscal Officer out of office. That's the highest priority out there for me!!!
ReplyDeleteMatt will always have a special place in our hearts when he took the fall for all that money we moved around and steered back in to Hamilton County to get our ne'er do well brother a job at the Hamilton County GOP, among other things. The world will never know what all transpired when Joe was the state treasurer and Matt has worked hard and taken the blame so we can keep it that way. The Disbarred Stan Chesley and we couldn't be happier.... or more supportive of liberal causes such as homosexual marriage.
ReplyDeleteRunning against the Culture of Corruption is going to be so easy this time. Thanks Matt!
ReplyDeleteThe Republican Party wouldn't talk about the corruption scandal in Cleveland when it was ongoing and the party chairman was a person with a clean criminal record. The Democrats did everything they could to make Tom Noe and his Republican connection an everyday discussion in 2006, but Republicans won't dare bring up the 70 elected or appointed Democrats in Cuyahoga County who have already been convicted. Some newspaper writer somewhere might call them mean-spirited or bigoted or something. The GOP had the chance to make hay of this in 2008, 2010 and 2012 and they didn't even bother trying.
ReplyDeleteWith Borges running the show in Columbus, the GOP slate gets wiped out in 2014. That means a whole new generation of Republicans running in 2018. Bet we'll see a few DeWines and Deters' on that list.
ReplyDeleteI'm ready to stand with Matt Borges. After supporting Jim O'Reilly and Jean Schmidt, Borges is a natural fit for my support.
ReplyDeleteWe are positively jumping for joy at the prospect of Matt Borges running the Ohio Republican Party. Our chairman has been walking around with a huge grin and an extra spring in his step lately.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you know our chairman, that's saying a lot. He hasn't thrown his cell phone in weeks.
Matt Borges is the kind of guy we like to donate money to. We love supporting tax-hiking Republicans financially while hob-nobbing with conservatives and convincing those knuckle-draggers we're one of them. It's been working like a charm for years.
ReplyDeleteWhatevs. I just want all this drama to end so we can just get on with it and have a welcoming party for him. A girl's gotta buy some shoes, you know, and the upcoming calendar of events doesn't look too promising here in Hamilton County.
ReplyDeleteChris, man, we've got your back. With Borges installed at the Ohio Racketeering Pavilion, you can spend as much time as you'd like at your home on the lake prepping for a national position in the DNC. Borges will make you look like a freaking strategical genius and then we can get you installed at the DNC. November 2014 is 19 months away, but victory is so close we can almost taste it!
ReplyDeleteSo, let's see here, this guy is ethically challenged and a pretend conservative???? He must be from Colerain Township!!! We only take the most conservative people with the highest standards of ethics and integrity in Green Township.
ReplyDeleteI think this Matt Borges is getting a bum rap. You shouldn't hold a person's past transgressions against him. See you at the park!
ReplyDeleteDang, where was this guy when I was in office? I'd still be there if he had been chairman! There is no way they could have called me out for that DUI and having that hooker in the car with me, if we had a tax-cheat and convicted criminal running the GOP.
ReplyDeleteTax cheating, nepotism, pay-to-play, criminals in high political office, man, it's like I never left my home in New York City and my previous life as a Democrat operative in the Big Apple. I was in Springdale the other day and it was just like being back in NYC: the empty stores, the desolation, none of those conservatives anywhere in sight. No, Springdale is nothing like Manhattan, silly. It's more like that part of Queens where they filmed Coming To America.
ReplyDeleteJust. Like. NYC.