Posted on 08/30/2009 6:02:32 AM PDT by RolandTignor
This newspaper traces its roots to before Las Vegas was Las Vegas.
We've seen cattle ranches give way to railroads. We chronicled the construction of Hoover Dam. We reported on the first day of legalized gambling. The first hospital. The first school. The first church. We survived the mob, Howard Hughes, the Great Depression, several recessions, two world wars, dozens of news competitors and any number of two-bit politicians who couldn't stand scrutiny, much less criticism. We're still here doing what we do for the people of Las Vegas and Nevada. So, let me assure you, if we weathered all of that, we can damn sure outlast the bully threats of Sen. Harry Reid.
On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber's board members for a meet-'n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal's director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal.
Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: "I hope you go out of business."
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
Reid should know better; never start an argument with someone who buys paper by the ton and ink by the barrel...
I am so thankful the Democrats are led by people like Harry Reid.
I hope Senator Reid goes out of business. He should go the way of Tom Daschle.
—gee whiz-maybe the R-J won’t endorse him as it did last election—
The thing I have to wonder is, if it weren’t for Limbaugh, Hannity and especially Beck, would this paper do what it’s doing? Dunno, but it’s great to see it happen.
LLS
Yes, we get what we settle for and elections do have consequences.
The question is, where do we go from here?
“Later, in his public speech, Reid said he wanted to let everyone know that he wants the Review-Journal to continue selling advertising because the Las Vegas Sun is delivered inside the Review-Journal.”
Can someone explain this line to me?
Is the Sun an insert that goes out with the R-J, which means that Reid only hopes that the R-J survives so that the Sun can be delivered? If not, I’ve no idea what that statement means and why it is an attack on the R-J.
Also, anyone familiar with the R-J — is that a liberal paper, centrist, or conservative?
Thanks.
I think that Americans, particularly Democrats, pay little attention to the misdeeds of those they send to Washington. The politicians have to really make asses of themselves before the voters take notice.
Becoming majority leader helps with that process. On the surface, you’d think that being the senate majority leader would virtually guarantee your re-electability, and would put you on the track to the White House.
But it didn’t work that way with Daschle, and it won’t work that way with Reid. They’re both such arrogant morons that it can’t be hidden when they’re in the limelight.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Tark the Shark’s son is gunning for Harry , he is toast.
Dave K in Calif wrote on August 30, 2009 06:41 AM:
This seems to be the thinking of our government now... Reid said: "I hope you go out of business." It seems like the government wants all business to fail, how else can you explain why they are trying to destroy successful businesses in general? In the name of fairness of course.It's really fairest if no one has a good job, since everyone can't have it.
Is this the change you all wanted?
Several hundred in Congress will be flushed with Harry; they’re TOAST. The American people have proof on video of their arrogance and in-your-face duplicity. Time to vote them out and start the campaigns to dump them NOW. Even without candidates to run against them, start the exposure of their power-hungry, corrupt, anti-American dirty deeds now. Enemies of America and the American people MUST be voted out of political office or impeached or recalled!
The whole of CONgress need to check their poll numbers before any one of them opens their mouth again.
Sherman Frederick is preaching to the choir.
The voters who need to read this editorial are incapable of doing that. They are illiterate.
They certainly will. Be prepared Congress to go on Obamacare with no job and possible pension slashes.
Harry, have we lost in Afganistan yet?
Has this paper ever done anything to expose the criminal behavior of the libs?
must have inner deep personal issues as he is one bitter little man but then again...he’s a lib and they all seem to be bitter and angry over something.
Maybe we’ll get to see a photo of reid sitting dejected in a chair all by himself like we did with little tommy d
Later, in his public speech, Reid said he wanted to let everyone know that he wants the Review-Journal to continue selling advertising because the Las Vegas Sun is delivered inside the Review-Journal.
Such behavior cannot go unchallenged.
You could call Reid's remark ugly and be right. It certainly was boorish. Asinine? That goes without saying. But to fully capture the magnitude of Reid's remark (and to stop him from doing the same thing to others) it must be called what it was -- a full-on threat perpetrated by a bully who has forgotten that he was elected to office to protect Nevadans, not sound like he's shaking them down.
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Imagine that little weasly, despicable pipsqueak .. threatening yet ... jeeeeze ...
“Just when those “ethical” Democrats have barely stopped celebrating their wins in Congress, their Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, gets dirty in another land scandal dustup. In an article in the L.A. Times the history of another sweet deal for Harry is exposed. A brief rundown goes like this:
Harry and his buddy of over 50 years, Claire Haycock, a lubricant distributor (remember this part), purchase a parcel of land in Arizona sometime between 1979 and 1982 for about $1,500 an acre.
Haycock puts his share in a pension plan trust.
California investors buy the property for $8,400 an acre in the ‘90’s but default a few years later, and the property reverts back to Reid and Haycock.
In the mid-1990s, Reid tried several times for legislation to protect lubricants distributors from abrupt cancellations by their suppliers but was unsuccessful.
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In 2001 Haycock decides to change the pension trust to a 401 and decides to sell the property.
In 2002 Reid buys the property—which once sold for $8,400 an acre and is appraised at $2,144 an acre by the county assessor—for the lofty sum of $166 an acre.
Six months later Harry again introduces legislation for lubricants distributors (remember what I told you to remember).
Since buying the property, Harry has pushed hard for a new bridge to run near his windfall property, but claims a new bridge will not affect the value of his property.
And Harry, you probably think people believe that, too.”
January 31, 2007, Harry Reid in another shady land deal, http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/business_politics/2007/01/
Well now RJ has some incentive to make sure Harry returns home to Nevada in retirement.
Shhhhh..... this is all part of the DNC strategy of self destruction, don’t bother them when they are hard at work.
I love it that he has made an enemy of his home state newspaper.
This will surely work out well for him.
Which comes first-—arrogance or stupidity? The Senator appears to be blinded by them both.
Unbelievable. Harry Reid is such a strange old lady.
Reid is behaving like a man that knows that his re-election is certain....thanks to shadowy groups like ACORN and the SEIU. I would love to see this mealy mouthed man go down in 2010(if not sooner). He is the epitome of the graft and corruption that is rampant in the democrat party.
Thanks for the ping!
SMACK. This is a MUST read. WAHOO!
And ANOTHER bump. I’m going to make myself a bowl of ice cream with chocolate sauce and eat it while slowly reading this article again for DOUBLE enjoyment.
Ping
A few years back, I worked for a large gaming company in Las Vegas. I was in the office of the VP of Government Relations when the phone rang. I could hear the voice on the other end of the phone screaming. When the VP hung up, I asked, "Who was that?" He said, "That was our great senator Harry Reid. He wants his f-ing money." The VP then explained that Harry had called for his pay-for-protection check that the company wrote to him every month. That was quite a lesson. The mob isn't gone. It's in Washington no
I LOVE IT!!!!!
The Las Vegas Sun is/was a owned by Greenspan. A best friend of Bills. Newspaper was family owned and always a liberal rag.
Review Journal has always been conservative and put the rag out of business.
Rag complained in court. Got Judge to say it wasnt fair and forced the RJ to distribute the rag insert making sure both the liberals still had a voice.
Me, too!!! Get rid of this despicable man, Nevada FReepers!
Fight ACORN’s shakedowns, illegal voter registration and threatening tactics, tooth and nail!!
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ACORN Criminally Charged In Nevada
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/may/acorn-criminally-charged-nevada
ACORN illegally compensated workers to register voters based on a corporate mandated quote system, according to Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto. Because canvassers were illegally required to meet quotas to keep their jobs, thousands of registrations with fake names and addresses were submitted throughout the state.
In fact, during its 2008 drive authorities raided ACORN’s Nevada offices after the group submitted multiple forms with bogus names, including pro football players from another state.
It turns out that ACORN hired convicted felons to register voters in Las Vegas and in fact got many from a transitional housing facility operated by the Nevada Department of Corrections. In a search warrant affidavit one ACORN employee said many of the canvassers were “lazy crack heads” who were not interested in working and just wanted the money.
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ACORN Nevada Office Raided
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/10/07/acorn_nevada_offices_raided.html
The Nevada office of ACORN had planned a potluck dinner at its Las Vegas office Tuesday night to celebrate the 80,000 newly registered voters its staff had signed up in Clark County as part of its work with low-income communities nationwide.
Instead, their office was raided Tuesday morning by agents of the Nevada Secretary of State and Attorney General who alleged in an application for a search warrant that ACORN had hired 59 felons through a work release program as canvassers and submitted nearly 300 apparently fraudulent voter registration cards as part of the drive.
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ACORN Director Pleads Guilty
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/aug/acorn-director-pleads-guilty
Last Updated: Fri, 08/21/2009 - 5:07pm
A high-ranking official at the taxpayer-funded leftist group that conducts fraudulent voter registration drives has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for organizing a scheme that illegally paid workers to register new voters.
As a Nevada field director for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Christopher Edwards paid canvassers—many of them “lazy crack heads”—to register new voters for the 2008 presidential election. He also set illegal quotas of at least 20 voters a day for canvassers to keep their job and offered an additional $5 for registering 21 or more.
ACORN’s shady quota system is illegal in Nevada as well as most states and the Chicago-based community group with strong ties to President Obama faces criminal charges across the nation. As part of Edwards’ guilty plea, he is cooperating with authorities and will testify against several high-ranking ACORN regional officials.
His testimony could strengthen other pending criminal cases against the group and its crooked method of recruiting new voters in low-income, “underserved” communities. For its corrupt 2008 drives alone, ACORN faces criminal charges in Florida, New Mexico and Pennsylvania.
In an effort to dismiss the charges in Pennsylvania, the group actually filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the state anti-quota law it violated unconstitutionally interferes with important political activity.
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ACORN in Retreat
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/08/26/acorn-in-retreat
By Matthew Vadum on 8.26.09 @ 6:08AM
While ACORN retreats across the nation, an upcoming voter registration fraud trial may reveal embarrassing information that hinders the ability of the embattled radical activist group to function.
The testimony will come as soon as next month from former ACORN Las Vegas field director Christopher Edwards. Charged with election fraud by Nevada’s Democratic attorney general, he cut a deal last week with prosecutors and has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration of voters.
ACORN allegedly enforced voter registration quotas with its employees and offered bonuses for extra registrations. Nevada law forbids the use of such incentives on the theory it encourages canvassers to file fraudulent registrations. No wonder: ACORN registers “Mickey Mouse” and various celebrities, out-of-state residents, and dead people, every election cycle.
~The Incredibles
I hope we look back at this time as a painful but needed revitalization of Conservatism.
Thanks for the explanation. I have been seeing posts about Reid’s remarks all day, but I had no idea what they referred to or exactly why he hated this person and his paper so much. Somehow that crucial bit of information got left out!
That said, it’s pretty incredible that the judge would actually order a newspaper to distribute another one (which obviously didn’t have enough readership to stay alive). I doubt that this would have happened if the political positions of the two papers were reversed.
Thanks for the history. That clears it up.
And, WTF? A judge can order a private enterprise to serve their competition? Our Founding Fathers must be rolling in their graves.
Here’s hoping the people dump Harry Reid next go-round.
As an old renter from Twain Ave, Harry needs to go away.
Thanks justiceseeker93.
>But it didn’t work that way with Daschle, and it won’t work that way with Reid. They’re both such arrogant morons that it can’t be hidden when they’re in the limelight.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.<
What I want to see even more is pelosi to crash and burn her political career.
Of course I would have 10 of her for one obama being toast in the next election.
YAY for the LVRJ. Makes me want to subscribe, and I don’t even live there.
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