Posted on 10/17/2006 6:42:11 AM PDT by rface
These aren't the droids you're looking for.
Good trick for Max.
" ... and Harry Greed paid me good money under the table to come out and say this."
Did he comment about Dingy Harry's misuse of campaign funds which he's now returning?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10162006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/reids_smelly_windfall_opedcolumnists_ed_morrissey.htm
Then, the next year, Reid introduced and pushed into law the Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002. The senator heralded this as vital in protecting the environment near Las Vegas. In fact, however, the law forced the Department of the Interior to sell off 18,000 acres of land around Las Vegas, spurring development and boosting the value of real-estate investments in the region. (Not what anyone normally associates with "protecting the environment.")
Normally, the government would have to sell this land at auction, as land swaps had lost the federal government millions in southern Nevada. But Reid insisted on suspending that rule in his Clark County act. The developers that hired his sons as lobbyists prospered with the lower-cost acquisitions of prime real estate through the uneven swaps. Also in the money were those - like Harry Reid himself - who'd already invested money in Clark County real estate.
The L.A. Times revealed the Reid family's extensive connections with Clark County developers in June 2003, as well as Reid's extensive legislative interest in the land, but the Brown-Reid investment had not yet come to light - thanks to Reid's failure to disclose.
Had the investment been known, voters could have made the connection. The Senate Ethics Committee might have taken an interest as well - except that Harry Reid himself sat as the top Democrat on that panel.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1720147/posts
Yeah, ignore all those other details, such as the stench of the legislation Reid pushed through Congress that directly benefited developers at a cost to US taxpayers, and indirectly benefited his sons, since the law firm that hires all of them got to dish the goodies to the developers in return for lobbying fees.
Doesn't sound too much different from what Weldon is being investigated for. What's good for the goose is good for the donkey as well.
So if it was all so simple why didn't he tell the truth from the start .. now Reid's saying there's two more transactions as yet unreported. Hmm.
Unfortunately, everything that a$$, Foley, did was legal, too. Doesn't mean it was ethical.
Cleland is still bending over for the Democrat Party.
I'd bet he'd give his right arm to be back in the Senate.
If you hang around with democrats, he probably is one of the most ethical men you know.
I'd call that a textbook case of damning with faint praise
LOL - from the unbiased source of a bitter ex-Dem senator whose personal morals and ethics are also questionable, if I remember correctly.
Isn't Weldon being investigated for something similar?
Too late, this story has legs.
...Rush Limbaugh doesn't call that rag the "Atlanta Urinal-Constipation" for nothing....anything that comes from Max Cleland I would take with a grain of salt anyway.....
Maybe Cleland is telling the truth ... and indicting himself.
As always the dems use the extra special billclinton dictionary of the meaning of is.
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