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Harry Reid hangs up on AP reporter`; Caught in illegal land sale deal!
Topic Started: Oct 11 2006, 11:22 AM (828 Views)
JBryan
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Is there some element of organized crime in the land deal?


I have heard tell that Jay "old buddy six figure handshake" Brown has been in the cross-hairs of the FBI and the DoJ for some time now with regard to some of his contacts.

Probably nothing there, though.
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Oct 13 2006, 08:37 AM
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Oct 13 2006, 08:27 AM
Like I said, nothing there.

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Yes, of course. That is why the Philly Enquirer is calling for him to be replaced as Minority Leader. Because there is nothing there.

Fair enough, but that's not exactly what the Inquirer said:

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Unless Reid comes up with a better explanation for this lack of disclosure, Democrats should not keep him as their leader in the new Congress in 2007.


After all, at that time, we may not be talking about the MINORITY Leader at all.

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After all, at that time, we may not be talking about the MINORITY Leader at all.


Nah. The democrats are going to get beat like a red headed stepchild.
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After all, at that time, we may not be talking about the MINORITY Leader at all.


Nah. The democrats are going to get beat like a red headed stepchild.

Whistling past the graveyard.

Although I've always said that taking a majority in the Senate was a longshot at best. But even Republican strategists are saying that it's not a longshot for the Dems to take back the House.
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Yeah, I know they are. One thing you can count on Republican politicians to do is give up. They just can't seem to get on enough TV news shows to tell everyone how they're going to lose.

They are *wrong*, Quirt. The democrats are going to get their asses handed to them.

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The Las Vegas Review Journal asks questions about Reid.
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    The Associated Press on Wednesday reported that our own Sen. Reid may have violated Senate rules by failing to report the 2001 transfer of land he owned "to a partnership in which he maintained a personal stake

Three years later, Sen. Reid made $700,000 when the partnership sold the real estate.

To make matters worse for the senator, the deal was apparently put together by a longtime friend and casino lawyer whose name has come up previously in organized crime investigations and a political bribery trial this summer.

Sen. Reid denied any wrongdoing and "hung up on the phone" when questioned about the deal, the AP reported.

Senate ethics rules require members to file annual reports that must include information on all investment property transactions. A former official with the Federal Elections Commission told The AP that Sen. Reid had violated his chamber's ethics guidelines.

By Thursday, Sen. Reid was a bit more contrite while awaiting a ruling from the Senate ethics committee on his actions. "I don't want to try to be flippant about this," he said. "If the ethics committee wants me to file a technical correction, then I will be happy to do it."

On the scandal scale, Sen. Reid's handling of the land deal hardly rises to Watergate status. But even several left-leaning newspapers -- including The Washington Post -- criticized the senator. The Philadelphia Inquirer went so far as to urge Democrats to boot Sen. Reid as their leader barring additional evidence in his favor.

All this raises the question: How does a savvy political operative such as Sen. Reid make a bush-league error and find himself ankle deep in the manure pit? For the past few years, Sen. Reid has been railing about a Republican "culture of corruption" -- and has eagerly sought to exploit the Foley mess for his party's political gain. Oops.

Perhaps after Sen. Reid scrapes the dung off his shoes, he'll tend to the egg on his face.
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