Christine Counters

The American people are tired of attack politics and want candidates who will focus on important issues such as reducing taxes, putting families back to work and getting our economy moving again.

It is true that I have faced challenging times in this difficult economy, and I think that gives me a better perspective than some of the more privileged in our society.

But there are some myths out there, and it is important to dispel some of them..

MYTH: Did not get college diploma

• FACT: Americans are struggling and I understand those struggles, because I’ve also faced difficult times, but in the end, I persevered. It took me over ten years to pay off my tuition bill. As a result my diploma was delayed. As FOX News, the Wilmington News Journal, and numerous other media sources have confirmed, I have a degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University and am a very proud alumna.

MYTH: Not a Delaware resident

• FACT: While some individuals might have tried to intimidate me to get out of the race, I will never back down from what’s right for Delaware citizens. During my 2008 campaign, both my home and campaign office were vandalized, broken into, and files were stolen. Threatening messages were left and nasty names were scrawled across my front door and porch. For security reasons, I simply do not want my Delaware home address made public this time around.

MYTH: Lost home in foreclosure

• FACT: Over the last few years, the American real estate market crashed and many families were faced with tough decisions. Contrary to what others are saying, I was lucky to survive this economic turmoil and my home was not foreclosed upon. My home was privately sold in 2008 through a realtor and private mortgage company, not a public foreclosure.

You can view the document here.

Click here for the IRS Call Transcription

The following document shows that I was complying with IRS during the appeals process. This proves that the lien was erroneous and a "computer error" since you can't get a tax lien placed on your home while under the appeals process (especially one you sold 2 years ago).

IRS Compliance

O’Donnell Defies Headwinds In Race For Senate Seat

By JANE GILVARY, The Philadelphia Bulletin, Monday, July 12, 2010 *

Christine O’Donnell, Delaware’s Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, knows how it feels to be maligned by the media. Like other conservative female candidates for political office, including the likes of South Carolina’s Nikki Haley and Alaska’s Sarah Palin, Ms. O’Donnell has been put through the political ringer and endured more than most just for a chance to represent the people of Delaware in Congress.

Christine O’Donnell is running for the Delaware Senate seat vacated by former Senator and now Vice-President, Joe Biden. O’Donnell ran against Biden in 2008 in a grass-roots campaign with a platform that included personal and fiscal responsibility. At the beginning of the race, O’Donnell was largely unknown and Biden was on the national ticket of a campaign that spent well over $200 million directly. In the Senate race, Biden spent $4.9 million and Christine spent $116,000. Her performance in 2008 is particularly impressive, in light of the Obama sweep in the Northeast. In the 2008 race, Christine got approximately the same percentage and total of votes as the McCain-Palin ticket (~35 percent), getting a record number of votes (~141,000) against him in an unprecedented Democratic turnout year.

In addition, Ms. O’Donnell espouses both pro-life and traditional family values. She is a nationally recognized political commentator, having appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, and ABC. Ms. O’Donnell is also a marketing consultant whose clients have included Icon Pictures "The Passion of the Christ" and Natalia Tsarkova, the Vatican’s first female portrait painter.

In a March 2010 story Delaware’s News Journal reported a tax lien was placed on Ms. O’Donnell’s home in 2010—a home she sold in 2008.

For reasons completely unknown and inexplicable to Ms. O’Donnell, an erroneous tax lien was placed on the home she had sold two years previously. The IRS admitted their error and cleared the balance owed, but it remains a blemish on her credit report. Ms. O’Donnell’s credit is essentially ruined for the next seven+ years.

The O’Donnell campaign alleges the political “dirt” for the story came from opposition research done by the Democratic National Committee during her 2008 campaign against Joe Biden.

The liberal leaning News Journal also claimed that O’Donnell actually lost her home in a sheriff’s sale, when in fact she sold her home to a legitimate buyer in 2008, using the money from the sale to support her run for the Delaware Senate.

IRS documents obtained by The Bulletin show that Ms. O’Donnell’s home was sold on June 30, 2008. Bank statements obtained also indicate that as of July of 2008 her mortgage loan was paid in full.

In addition to the mysterious tax lien on a home she no longer owned, Ms. O’Donnell was audited by the IRS, as were some of her family members and a close friend. Although the audits were perfectly legal, it seems odd that Ms. O’Donnell and her family attracted the attention of the IRS only after she became a strong contender for a Senate seat held by a career Democrat.