U.S. Sen. Alan Dixon, who said he has made his tax returns since 1969 available, called on his Democratic primary opponents Monday to release more personal financial data.
Chicago lawyer Albert Hofeld, who has placed his net worth at $15 million and released a portion of his 1990 income tax return, said he would not do so. And Alton Miller, spokesman for Cook County Recorder of Deeds Carol Moseley Braun, called Dixon`s demand ”a pathetically obvious smokescreen” to divert attention from the Dixon campaign`s acceptance of $623,000 in special- interest funds last year alone.
Braun, he said, will release complete tax returns from her entire career in public service, probably later this week.
”She challenged Dixon to release his (returns) for his 42-year public career because civics students and everybody else would find it interesting to see how he became a millionaire on the public payroll,” Miller said.
On his most recent public disclosure form, Dixon listed his net worth at $1.27 million.
