Still Another Obama Nominee Has Tax Troubles

The hits keep on coming for the folks who supposedly vet the nominees for various posts within the Obama Administration requiring confirmation. They allowed Ron Kirk to be put forward and only later did they realize that he failed to pay $10,000 in taxes.

Ron Kirk, nominated as U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to make his payments, the Senate Finance Committee said Monday.

The committee said the taxes arise from Kirk's handling of speaking fees that he donated to his alma mater, and for his deduction of the full cost of season tickets to the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team.

The disclosure made the former Dallas mayor the latest in a string of top-level Obama administration appointees found to have underpaid their taxes, following Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Tom Daschle, who withdrew as candidate for Health and Human Services secretary. Nancy Killefer, Obama's pick for chief performance officer, also bowed out amid tax problems.

How does this happen?

How many Democrats can Obama's people dig up that didn't pay their taxes? What does this tell you about those Democrats that Obama was considering and didn't make the cut?

What does it say about the judgment of the Obama Administration? Why does that not get more attention from the media. I guess they were looking for change in DC and decided that they'd rather have tax deadbeats running the show.