



Gabriel Gomez is not a particularly forthcoming Senate candidate. For example, he refuses to say whether he believes employers should be able to dictate health care choices for the women who work for them. He won't release his 2005 taxes, the ones that show that tax scam problem , and he won't answer questions about it, either.

He also won't release his list of clients from the nine years he's worked at private equity firm Advent International, as the Senate candidate disclosure form requires.

"Gabriel Gomez's refusal to disclose the names of his clients is more than just a potential ethics violation–it suggests that he has something to hide, and it's time for Gomez to finally come clean with the people of Massachusetts by disclosing the names of his clients," Walsh will say. Gomez's client list became an issue for the Republican earlier this week when a progressive-leaning government watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, filed an ethics complaint against Gomez for failing to release those details.

It does make one wonder. The issues surrounding Gomez, and the issues he refuses to talk about, open Gomez up to questions about just what else might be out there, not to mention how responsive he'd be to his constituents as senator. He sure doesn't care about transparency as a candidate.

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