Tom Tancredo gives KHOW's Peter Boyles his tax returns, challenges Dan Maes to do the same

While other Republicans are starting to cozy up to Dan Maes, there's no love lost between the Republican gubernatorial candidate and Tom Tancredo, now running for governor on the American Constitution ticket. Tancredo, who's on KHOW right now, just gave his tax returns to Peter Boyles -- authorizing him to...

By Patricia Calhoun

August 17, 2010

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While other Republicans are starting to cozy up to Dan Maes, there's no love lost between the Republican gubernatorial candidate and Tom Tancredo, now running for governor on the American Constitution ticket. Tancredo, who's on KHOW right now, just gave his tax returns to Peter Boyles -- authorizing him to post them online as soon as Dan Maes makes his tax returns public.

Don't count on them going online anytime soon. So far, Maes has shown no inclination to make his returns public, having declined to provide them to the Denver Post, among other media outlets. Instead, he gave them to a conservative website, which released only the most basic information -- but his modest earnings convinced the Post that Maes doesn't have the business smarts to be governor.

And Tancredo's? They're bound to be interesting reading, since he lost most of his retirement funds to Bernie Madoff.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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