Posted on 10/16/2006 10:30:47 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Reid Goes Beyond Ethics Requirements, Disarms GOP Smear Campaign
10/16/2006 1:12:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Jim Manley or Rebecca Kirszner, 202-224-2939, both for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid today issued the following statement:
"Last month, Republicans openly boasted that they would engage in a campaign of personal attacks and smears to hold onto power in Washington. In recent days, we witnessed their latest attempt to do just that.
"Republicans may believe in cover-ups. I believe in ensuring all facts come to light.
"Last week, a highly misleading report by the Associated Press implied that I made a profit selling land I no longer owned. That article was wrong. Here are the facts: I bought the land in 1998, I sold it in 2004, and I listed my ownership of the land on official Senate disclosure forms every single year.
"Now I have taken an additional step. Today, I directed my staff to file amended financial disclosure forms noting that in 2001, I transferred title to the land to a Limited Liability Corporation. As the amended forms make clear, this routine legal move in no way altered my actual ownership of the land. On each disclosure form after 2001, I have added a note to clarify that the land already disclosed in detail on those forms was owned by me through the LLC.
"The Ethics Committee has not yet advised me whether I should file these amended forms, but even if I am not required to do so I am happy to go beyond what is needed to provide the fullest disclosure. The amended forms make clear what was true all along - I owned the land through the LLC when I sold it in 2004.
(Excerpt) Read more at releases.usnewswire.com ...
CYA. We've got him (and the Dems) by the scruff of the neck. Time to shake.
Never would have done it if he did not get caught. Has the IRS passed on any investigation for back taxes due? The political class stays protected again.
ol' Harry gives himself a Mulligan.
PR News Wire will print anything you send them.
Your rules, not ours.
Wonder why Reid would do this. The MSM have given this no coverage. By doing this he now opens himself up to another press cycle.
"Republicans may believe in cover-ups. I believe in ensuring all facts come to light.
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'reversespeak' or what? lol
He is one sick puppy.
They have to get rid of dirty hairy, gotta make room for murtha the mouth....LMAO
What's with the incredibly biased headline? What is this source? Is this some sort of Democratic campaign publication? Honestly, if this is supposedly some legit. newspaper with a headline like that, then we need to give up on any and all pretense of having a free media in this country.
By the way Harry, even as you hypocritically talk of "cover ups," Foley who did nothing more than dirty talk is gone while you who took dirty money and then tried to conceal it is STILL IN THE SENATE! So shut up DemoCrite!
Reid is the Senate Majority Leader, not the House Majority Leader. Murtha is up for Majority Leader of the House.
It's a Dem'rat press release.
I guess that now I can rob a bank and if i'm caught just hand back the money and say i'm now clean, let me go.
This is a Democrat. They can kill people and get away with it ala Fat Teddy from Mass. Every report of the Reid scandal fails to mention the mob ties with his partner in the land deal. MSM is looking the other way to save one of their liberal darlings.
Talk about misleading. Reid's statement is uber misleading.
"Last month, Republicans openly boasted that they would engage in a campaign of personal attacks and smears to hold onto power in Washington. In recent days, we witnessed their latest attempt to do just that. "
What a stupid fool.
As I always say... Sh*t doesn't stick to slimeballs.
Now you suddenly want us to believe that you are an angel in all this and it's just some vast right wing conspiracy to smear you, give me a FREAKING BREAK!
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