The State Auditor candidates debate hosted on Tuesday (12 Oct) by the Rappaport Center and State House News Service at Suffolk University Law School hasn’t generated much press coverage, but it should! You can find a link to a full length video  of the debate here on the Rappaport Center home page (requires Windows Media Player): http://www.rappaportcenter.org/

I obviously hope that if you watch the full debate then  you will find yourself convinced you should vote for me,  but I would appreciate any feedback you have on the arguments put forward by my opponents and me in either case.

One small exception to the coverage focus on what Bump said about Connaughton (and what Connaughton did or didn’t say about Bump) are the following two paragraphs from Matt Murphy of State House News Service in the extended text. Note that I only got a couple of paragraphs of coverage, but these were two good paragraphs to get! http://ow.ly/2Szw0

Watch the video linked to this story — all 5 minutes and 58 painful seconds of it — and try not to cringe as the Honorable former State Representative/Lobbyist/Cabinet Secretary Bump explains in her own words the technical basis on which she is entitled to a residential tax break for two different residences:

http://www.patriotledger.com/n…

Is the auditor supposed to practice evasion, or expose it? Is this the kind of nuanced argument — I didn’t get a break on those property taxes, I got a break on this other property tax! The tax break I got for saying I lived in Boston was different from the tax break I got for saying I lived in Great Barrington, so I’m not really claiming two tax breaks! — that we expect a state auditor to accept?

Wasn’t it Suzanne Bump who was rightfully going after Guy Glodis for acting as if the laws applied differently to him than for everyone else?  That there’s no place in the auditor’s office for tax evasion and double dealing?

STATEMENT BY SUZANNE BUMP, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR STATE AUDITOR, REGARDING SHERIFF GUY GLODIS AND TODAY’S FRONT PAGE STORY IN THE BOSTON GLOBE

Sep 2, 2010 | Suzanne Bump for Auditor

What makes Guy Glodis believe he is not subject to the same rules which apply to everyone else? And, more troubling, why, when caught red-handed in wrong-doing, does Guy Glodis refuse to take responsibility for his actions? Today we add federal tax evasion to the growing list of apparent violations of the law involving Sheriff Guy Glodis. MORE »