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Posted on Monday 11 October 2010


ATLANTA — A federal judge has revoked the discharge of a 2009 bankruptcy of more than $3 million in debts by the daughter and son-in-law of Republican gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Brizendine made the decision Friday after re-examining the case when it was revealed that Clint Wilder had a previous bankruptcy in 2001. Bankruptcy laws bar anyone from filing for protection more than once within eight years.

Deal’s daughter and son-in-law, Carrie and Clint Wilder, filed for bankruptcy in 2009 after their Habersham County store failed. It left Deal and his wife, Sandra, on the hook for a $2.3 million loan they guaranteed for the venture. Deal was not mentioned in the bankruptcy filing but the lawyer handling the case for the U.S. government said he should have been listed as a co-debtor.
It’s just hard to imagine how this doesn’t matter in the Governor’s race. In a rational world, Deal’s quitting Congress on the eve of being charged with ethics violations ought to be enough to make him unelectable. Now his overall financial mismanagement of his life just piles more evidence on the heap. And yet he is likely to be elected Governor of the State of Georgia.

I’ve never heard anyone mention a positive reason to vote for him – something he’s done or something he stands for. The only comments I’ve heard are disdainful things about Roy Barnes – nothing specific, just the kinds of anti-Democratic comments that are all too common these days. So it’s actually not a race that has much to do with governance of the State itself, but rather some kind of disavowing of Democrats AKA Liberals.

The local paper rarely mentions the Governor’s race. Most of the letters are either about our local referendum on continuing with a Sole Commissioner versus electing a Board of five Commissioners or some Tea Party commentary about having less government and taxes. It seems as if the things government itself and Governors actually do is immaterial. I have no idea what that means, but it doesn’t seem like a good thing. It feels like any White Male Republican son would do. And it helps to not be from Atlanta…
UPDATE:
Deal’s federal taxes baffling
2006, 2007 payments stand out
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Alan Judd
10/11/2010

Nathan Deal paid federal income taxes equal to just 2 percent of his income in 2006 and 2007, but he won’t explain how he did it. Deal, now the Republican nominee for Georgia governor, reported earning nearly $400,000 in those two years. But he paid $5,575 in federal taxes in 2006 and $2,068 in 2007. Even after accounting for business losses and other deductions, Deal paid only about one-third the taxes normally levied on the amount of taxable income he reported, an analysis of Internal Revenue Service tax tables suggests.

Tax records released by his campaign don’t explain how Deal’s accountant determined how much he owed. And aides to Deal said they will neither release additional tax documents nor answer more questions about the candidate’s personal finances…

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