Documents on file with the Jefferson County Clerk's Office show Ronald Sandstrom, the Republican candidate for assessor, facing Internal Revenue Service liens of more than $67,000 and unsatisfied judgments from the Colorado Department of Revenue of nearly $22,000.
It's not clear whether Sandstrom has made any progress in settling his tax bill with the IRS, which accrued from 2007 to 2011, but a records technician with the Jefferson County Combined Courts said on Tuesday that Sandstrom's debts with the state — dating to 2010, 2011 and 2013 — are still listed as "unsatisfied."
The delinquency issue was enough to prompt Jefferson County Republican Party Chair E.V. Leyendecker to ask Sandstrom to step aside from the race. Sandstrom has so far refused to do so, Leyendecker said.
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Don't we have a few Secretaries of various federal executive departments that owe, or owed, thousands and thousands of dollars in taxes at the time they were deemed fit to head up those executive departments? If owing tens of thousands of dollars in taxes that wasn't an issue then, why is it an issue now? And if it is an issue, how in the world were those people confirmed to be the heads of those executive departments within the federal government?
Exactly, whatever this guy is supposed to owe, it is less than Warren Buffet is fighting over or Charlie Rangel owes the US government. I don't see it disqualifying them from their jobs.
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