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Farmworkers Ask Why Can't Romney Release His Tax Returns? (SATIRE)

SATIRE: Farmworker Releases Tax Returns And Asks ‘Where Are Romney's?'
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Managing Editor, HuffPost Black Voices, Latino Voices & Voces

Worker Jose Manuel Morales throws a freshly picked load of flue-cured tobacco leaves onto the truck on land leased by Eaton Farms in Kernersville, North Carolina, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. Although smaller than last year, a quality U.S. tobacco crop endured a tough agricultural growing season in 2012. Photographer: Davis Turner/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Worker Jose Manuel Morales throws a freshly picked load of flue-cured tobacco leaves onto the truck on land leased by Eaton Farms in Kernersville, North Carolina, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. Although smaller than last year, a quality U.S. tobacco crop endured a tough agricultural growing season in 2012. Photographer: Davis Turner/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Early this morning, area farmworker Celestino Sepúlveda made five years of his tax returns public.

Holding faded copies of his 1040EZ from tax years 2007 to 2011, Sepúlveda told reporters, “Quiero ser un ejemplo para Romney” (I want to be an example for Romney) by publicly revealing his Federal returns.

At a press conference held at 3AM scheduled to accommodate his need to obtain agricultural day work from farm labor contractors, who start recruiting at 3:30, Sepúlveda explained.

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