What is it with Democrats and their recurring problems with paying their taxes? Certainly they seem more than capable of passing and raising taxes. But paying them on time? Not so much.
Today’s example of a Democrat not paying his taxes comes from House District 136 candidate John H. Bucy, which a press release from his Republican opponent, incumbent Tony Dale‘s campaign (not yet up on his websites) identifies as owing $160,000 in back taxes to the IRS:
John H. Bucy, III, the Democratic nominee for Texas House, District 136 in Williamson County, apparently failed to pay his taxes for at least 4 years and owes over $160,000 to the IRS. According to the IRS tax lien filed with the Travis County Clerk, Mr. Bucy owes personal income taxes dating as far back as 2008 and as recently as 2011. And there could be more.
The Dale campaign also notes that “In addition to the IRS tax lien, Mr. Bucy has problems with the state of Texas as well. Every single business Bucy has registered with state of Texas has forfeited its existence for failure to pay the required taxes and fees, seven total businesses.” To me, this is not only several orders of magnitude less important than the taxes owed the IRS, it’s not necessarily an issue at all, as it could mean Bucy’s business entities are no longer active and he simply let the registration expire.
I emailed the Bucy campaign for comment about an hour ago, but so far have not heard back from them.
Note: Dale is my own state representative, and I endorsed him in 2012.
Update: The Bucy campaign contends that Dale got the wrong John Bucy:
Mr. Lawrence [sic],
The accusations are false, and John has never had a lien filed against him.
We are aware of the document that the Dale campaign claims to possess, and the “John Bucy” referenced in Tony Dale’s press release is NOT John Bucy the candidate. — Not only is John Bucy (the candidate) not the person to whom the lien attaches, he has also never even lived at the address to which the John Bucy in the lien attaches to.
We spoke to the Dale campaign last week and made them aware of this. — The Dale campaign still chose to move forward. — They clearly do not care to be honest with the voters.
To the other point of John’s companies, John has only been affiliated with 3 companies, and we do not know where the count of 7 comes from.
One of the companies is his current company, which is in good standing, and the other two companies have been closed down properly.
None of this information should be published, as it is false, and we are presently exploring all options to stop these false accusations.
-Brent Grady.
Campaign Manager, Bucy for Texas
Update 1: My update on the still murky issue is here.
Update 2: Bucy campaign claims that the lien was against his father, John Bucy II, which fits the facts in the first update above.
Tags: 2014 Election, Austin, Democrats, Elections, John Bucy, Texas, Tony Dale, Travis County, Williamson County
Considering the truth, the title / subject line of your article is unethical and misleading. It should read something like, “Tony Dale is a Willful Liar”.