Reid’s Troubles
Well, the MSM may be pretty well leaving Harry Reid alone on his ethical problems, but Ed Morrisey sure isn't. It turns out that Reid had more land parcel dealings that were not disclosed, not just the first one the AP reported.
Harry Reid went on offense yesterday … of a sort. Claiming that his failure to properly disclose his partnership with Jay Brown — an attorney with ties to a zoning-commission bribery case and reported links to organized crime — amounted to a Republican plot to make him look dishonest, Reid filed amended disclosures five years after the fact to note the transfer of his properties into his and Brown's LLCs. His big offensive ground to a halt, though, when he revealed two other land transactions that had never been disclosed, and another mini-scandal erupted involving his use of campaign funds:
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Let's get this straight. Reid's failure to follow the Senate rules on disclosure in 2001, when he sat on the Ethics Committee, somehow got set up by the Republicans. Reid's connection to an attorney involved in a bribery case that directly related to zoning decisions in Clark County, where they both owned property, was a Rovian plot set in motion in 1998. And now Reid's new disclosures of property in an area where he has taken an intense legislative interest somehow relates to Republicans, when no one even mentioned the parcels in question — because Reid failed to disclose them during his entire time as Senate Minority Leader, while he has castigated Republicans for alleged ethical lapses.
Like Captain Ed, I think an ethics committee investigation is really necessary here. There is a raging double standard at work here. Reid wants everyone in the opposition party to adhere to rules but flouts those same rules himself. That needs to be looked into.
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Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Ethical Lapses Ignored — Tuesday, 17 October , 2006 @ 4:28 pm
By Dan, Tuesday, 17 October , 2006 @ 2:01 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/17/reid.landwindfall.ap/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/washington/17reid.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/AR2006101600525.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2576697
In other news, it turns out that Gaius really is a partisan hack.
By Gaius, Tuesday, 17 October , 2006 @ 2:12 pm
Dan, you’re pushing it. I’ well aware that there is media coverage. It does not even come remotely close to the way the media covers anything if the person has (R) after their name. You know it.
By Dan, Tuesday, 17 October , 2006 @ 2:15 pm
Um…no I don’t. That’s the point isn’t it. And if it’s such a media conspiracy, why doesn’t FNC have any more coverage of it than any of the outlets I linked? Aren’t they the anti-MSM?
Or maybe it’s just conservatives playing cry-baby again. They are getting better and better at that.
By jpe, Tuesday, 17 October , 2006 @ 5:57 pm
There’s still no story here. He’s only done what any number of businessmen and women do every single day. If people think LLCs are somehow improper vehicles for business, then amend the law, but don’t tar regular, hardworking men and women for adhering to the law.
By Black Jack, Tuesday, 17 October , 2006 @ 7:12 pm
Yet again, the mask slips and you see deep into the soul of the Democrat party. The hypocrisy is stunning to new eyes, and only the latest example of standard operating procedure to old hands.