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Scott Garrett: Conservative Farmer or creative bookkeeper?

by: Jason Springer

Wed Sep 24, 2008 at 09:08:38 AM EDT



Maybe he means fiscally conservative in the sense of tightfisted with his own finances?  Or possibly we should start calling him Farmer Scott?  The Shulman campaign comes out today with a new website - www.garrettshrubs.com - and goes on the air with an ad hitting Congressman Garrett on a farming tax exemption he avails himself of but fails to report as required:

According to the Shulman campaign's research, Garrett claims nine acres of his estate as a farm because his brother sells $700 worth of shrubs, then takes up to $41,000 in tax breaks meant to lighten the load of real New Jersey farmers.  

The ad will run on cable throughout the 5th district.  You can find their evidence on the Garrett Shrubs site along with the potential implications of such dishonesty. It appears Garrett actually reported the farm up until 2002.  And here's what appears to be the website of the business in question. I wonder if Farmer Scott is a member of the NJ Christmas Tree Growers Association?

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I certainly hope... (0.00 / 0)
That Dennis' campaign is aware of the Pennsylvania radio stations that blanket this area and are listened to by a lot of people. These are stations where they should be buying spots, to get in the ears of the people in the broccoli.

The PA stations are the ones a lot of folks listen to, like the country station(call letters slip my feeble mind) and the E. Stroudsburg rock station.

They ain't big, they don't book high, but they sure do get listened to out in the west of the west.

The nom de plume has a long and distinguished history.


Sen. Beck will be outraged (0.00 / 0)
I'm sure.

Yes, I'll expect her to voice that outrage... (4.00 / 1)
Just after Tom Wilson calls on Sara Palin to release her email records and criticizes John McCain for his age.

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Beck is Palin With an IQ n/t (0.00 / 0)


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My input (0.00 / 0)
is here

To hell with what she wants, let's make Rosi Efthim the next DSC chair.

Isn't Farmer Scott (0.00 / 0)
supposedly a fiscal conservative? I guess not, since he's gaming the system to save big bucks on tax dollars.

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