http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/16/D8KPUR0G2.html

Note that the source of this report is AP not the Drudge Report.

Poor Harry, I sorry to hear he is having more ethics problems, looks like he is your typical stand-up all around good guy (democrat) to me.

And as if things were not worse, I found this today while surfing Newsmax, funny they are the only one publishing these juicy nuggets...

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/10/11/145628.shtml?s=lh

I find para 3 interesting, seems Harry's good friend and business partner has a "colorful past".

Adios Amigos

WOW...Dingy-Harry Reid really does know a thing or two about the ' Culture of Corruption'


I wonder if that shady Nevada politcian who was shown taking bribes from the Mob in the movie 'Godfather II' was not-so loosely based on Dingy-Harry Reid?


Also, I wonder if he's going to insist on a 'Windfall Profit Tax' on himself?
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Sen. Harry Reid: $1 Million in Shady Land Deal

Sen. Reid Accounts for Shady Land Deal


Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn't personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show.


In the process, Reid did not disclose to Congress an earlier sale in which he transferred his land to a company created by a friend and took a financial stake in that company, according to records and interviews.

The Nevada Democrat's deal was engineered by Jay Brown, a longtime friend and former casino lawyer whose name surfaced in a major political bribery trial this summer and in other prior organized crime investigations. He's never been charged with wrongdoing - except for a 1981 federal securities complaint that was settled out of court.

Reid to Reimburse Campaign for Donations
Oct 16 5:08 PM US/Eastern

By JOHN SOLOMON
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON


Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has been using campaign donations instead of his personal money to pay Christmas bonuses for the support staff at the Ritz-Carlton where he lives in an upscale condominium. Federal election law bars candidates from converting political donations for personal use.

Questioned about the campaign expenditures by The Associated Press, Reid's office said Monday he was personally reimbursing his campaign for $3,300 in donations he had directed to the staff holiday fund at his residence.


Reid also announced he was amending his ethics reports to Congress to more fully account for a Las Vegas land deal, highlighted in an AP story last week, that allowed him to collect $1.1 million in 2004 for property he hadn't personally owned in three years.

In that matter, the senator hadn't disclosed to Congress that he first sold land to a friend's limited liability company back in 2001 and took an ownership stake in the company. He collected the seven-figure payout when the company sold the land again in 2004 to others.

Reid portrayed the 2004 sale as a personal sale of land, making no mention of the company's ownership or its role in the sale.

Nice one Rory, love it! I've been out hunting mulies came back to see KK needs his diaper changed again as it doth runneth over...

I find it entertaining that the socialist lib's will ***** about the slightest step accross the the line by a righty, demand a grand jury investigation, but when they are held to the same standard the whine and complain. What a bunch of pussys.

This comes from a guy who sides with a party that order a full investigation over a blow job.

PROBLEMS MOUNT FOR HARRY REID

Ask yourself this: Imagine right now, three weeks before the general election, that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was found to have been involved in a shady land deal....one in which he pocketed quite a hefty sum...despite not owning the land. Also imagine that Hastert was found to have paid for his personal condo staff out of his campaign funds, a violation of umpteen campaign finance laws. What do you think the media would be doing?

You just know it would be the top story...the calls for Hastert's resignation would be deafening. But the person being accused of all these things is a Democrat....and just not any Democrat. It's Harry Reid...the Senate Minority Leader. The organization making the accusations? Not some right-wing, politically motivated newspaper. Nope...it's the Associated Press. But aside from the AP and the story being linked on Drudge, you won't find the story covered much anywhere.

And why? Simple....Reid is a Democrat and the media isn't interested. They're too focused right now on dethroning the Republicans from the House and Senate. There simply isn't any desire to cover a story about Harry Reid's ethics problems. But if it was a Republican....he would have been run out of Washington D.C. by now.

He's already been over there under the aliases of RWNUT and Throttle Jockey

Boy, that secret decoder ring is really paying dividends.

Good work, Dick Tracy........er, Rory.

"Oh, he came back here because I posted a half dozen times on GF that he CUT and RAN from here. He's trying to show us he didn't run away." Sez Aunty FS. TEE hee.

POT, Kettle, Black.
Gotta agree with Dan on that one.

BTW I have been meaning to comment and get distracted. KK the neatest thing about your posts is the signature. That is a very good one.
Sincerely, no cynicism. I wish we could get an answer to all those beamed transmissions.

Congratulations Rory Bellows! Yer getting a better outcome than the Bushies deserve. Are ya' holding out a hand of bipartisanship? Careful, Pelosi might bite it off!!

KK,

My ears must have been burning.

Congrats to the demo's, may they govern well.

Looks like Burns is going to loose in my home state of Mt. This puts things up in to air for the US Senate, it may come down to the VP casting tie breaking votes. If memory serves me correctly this happened during the first term of Clinton/Gore.

Bottom Line, time to observe and see what happens.

On a national level the Dave vs Darcy race really does not matter, but Dave's lead is very slim. Last evening they were saying that King County elections is still sitting on 60k in mail in ballots.

Given that fact, I am kissing the Sheriff's position good bye.

Time will tell.

Stay tuned.

Durka Durka :p

Whatever Rory "man on dog" Bellows. Crawl back into your hole where your economy is booming!

Speaking of the economy, is it only coincidence that gas rose 4 cents the day after the elections? Think there will be a trend?

And is it only coincidence that the stock market really started taking off when it was clear the Dems were going to win big this year? AND reached another record high when it was confirmed the day after elections...

Just coincidence, I'm sure...

Duh... it was the "tax cuts" as I'm sure Rory "Man on dog" Bellows will demonstrate with a cut n paste from drudge or some other "respectable" news source!

You do have to appreciate the feeble attempt by the conservatives to spin it that Dems only won because they ran conservative candidates or that the Republicans lost it more so than the Dems won it. There really is no shame in that party or it's staunch supporters.

If this was true, and the Dems won on nothing, why the outreached hand by the administration? Could it be they are finally hearing the voice of the people or are they realizing they will be held accountable for their debacle/s?

Perhaps fu$ksticks like TheWank and Rory and a few others should be looking inwards for answers rather than outward for excuses!

Yeah, I know, dream on!

Wailuku, I am curious, from your view point, how do you see the economy in your part of the world? Bad? Fragile balance? Strong?

I am not trying to stir up more BS here on the board, just asking an honest question and hoping for an honest answer.

D,

Personal experience or my amateur economist evaluation?

Either way I do not have a favorable opinion of the current state of the economy. If you analyze where the "growth" has been and really look at who is benefiting from the growth in my opinion it exposes the stupidity of the "trickle down theory".

You can pretend that unemployment is a valid measure of the state of the economy but keep in mind when you change the rules on how unemployment is determined then validity becomes relative.

You can pretend that tax cuts have been the spark that created jobs but wouldn't it be more interesting to really see/measure how many jobs it actually created domestically versus how many jobs it created in foreign countries. I'd be willing to bet that even "man on dog" would not like the outcome of that comparison.

In any event that is a partial response to your question.

I could go on and on looking for factual numbers or data that supported by suspect opinion of the economy but I will stick with just opinions since I think that is what you were after.

You can pretend anything you like, however, tax cuts have sparked the economy. Whether they have tickled your pocket or not. The stock market is going orbital. Of course that just means they have farther to fall. The Bonus slate is such that most of the Wall street boys could retire this year and let some subs play. But not to worry the Dems will figure out what to do with the incoming tax dollars. Pay down the national debt I'm sure.

Thanks for demonstrating miopia for us Sard!