The New York Republican Committee is calling on U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to disavow the accusation made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that Mitt Romney hasn’t paid taxes over the last decade.

From the NY GOP statement this afternoon:

Will New York’s Junior Senator take a stand for unity and civility in political discourse by condemning Harry Reid’s remarks, or will she continue to be just another reliable rubberstamp that Reid can use to pass his ideological agenda?

In widely publicized remarks to The Huffington Post, Reid claimed a source close to Romney’s old company, Bain Capital, told him that the reason why the presumptive Republican nominee for president hasn’t released more tax returns is because he hasn’t paid much, if any at all.

It is something of an eyebrow-raising charge, but as Steve Kornacki at Salon explained earlier, it’s likely Reid is trying to keep the story alive and is willing to play the price of being a Democratic villain in order to do so.

Romney himself has responded, saying Reid ought to “put up or shut up.”

Gillibrand, who faces Republican Wendy Long this fall, actually has released her own tax returns over the last five years, posting them on her official Senate website.

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