Thune calls on Daschle to release '99-'03 tax returns

The Thune campaign today issued a press release calling on Tom Daschle to release his tax returns for the past five years:

South Dakota Republican Senate candidate John Thune and his wife, Kimberley Thune, today released their federal income tax returns for the past five years and challenged Senator Tom Daschle to join him in making their returns fully accessible to the public.

“Today we have disclosed our federal income tax returns from 1999 to 2003 and have made these returns available for full public review on my campaign website, www.johnthune.com,” Thune said. “I challenge Senator Daschle to join us in disclosing their returns for the past five years and making them accessible to the public as well”

Earlier this year, the Rapid City Journal asked both candidates to release their 2003 federal income tax returns. While Thune released their returns immediately, Daschle refused to release their returns for several weeks but finally relented after substantial pressure from the newspaper.

Thune went even further today by not only releasing their returns for the past five years, but by making them fully accessible to the public by posting them on his campaign website.