Senate Democratic leader Jay Costa calls on Scott Wagner to release tax returns
Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa, D-Forest Hills, called on Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner Tuesday to release his tax returns, saying Wagner’s refusal to do so breaks with 20 years of state precedent and goes against the interests of transparency.
Costa said Wagner’s background as a businessman, including owning a municipal waste-hauling company in York, makes it even more important for him to make his finances public.
“He professes to be an articulate businessman. Show us and prove to us that that is indeed the case,” Costa said in an afternoon news conference at the Allegheny County Courthouse.
Wagner, 62, of York said during his primary campaign for the Republican nomination that he wouldn’t release his tax returns.
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