Bradenton Herald: Buchanan, Jennings squabble heats up

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Each called on the other’s candidate to “come clean” about accusations against them, including a recent spate of lawsuits versus Buchanan and Jennings’ failure to pay campaign payroll taxes for almost three years.

Jennings fired the day’s first volley, holding a news conference to emphatically deny that she or her 13th Congressional District campaign was behind the Buchanan lawsuits. Instead, she said, they are a reflection of what she called Buchanan’s long history of questionable business practices.

“No one is responsible for Vern Buchanan’s record other than Vern Buchanan,” Jennings told a crowd of media in front of the federal building in downtown Sarasota. “We must hold Vern Buchanan accountable for his actions.”

She urged Buchanan to answer questions about eight recent lawsuits filed by former employees of Buchanan’s car dealerships, accusing him and/or the dealerships of defrauding consumers, using illegal immigrants and breaking campaign-finance laws. A former business partner also is suing Buchanan over a soured deal to buy a Georgia dealership.

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