Employee of the Day | Right Hook To Reid

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Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, who has criticized Republican ethics, accepted free ringside tickets to three professional boxing matches from Nevada officials who were trying to influence his federal legislation regulating the sport.

Reid, D-Nev., took the free seats for Las Vegas fights between 2003 and 2005 from the Nevada Athletic Commission as he pressed legislation to increase federal oversight of boxing, including the creation of a government commission.

Reid defended the gifts, saying they would never influence his position on the boxing bill and that he was simply trying to learn how his legislation might affect an important home state industry. "Anyone from Nevada would say I'm glad he is there taking care of the state's No. 1 businesses," he told The Associated Press.

"I love the fights anyways, so it wasn't like being punished," added the senator, a former boxer and boxing judge."

Highly doubt any one considered the situation a punishment, Harry.

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"If Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid has his way, someday a superfast hovering train will whisk tourists from family-friendly Disneyland to the what-happens-here-stays-here city, Las Vegas. But so far, the Nevada senator's fascination with magnetic levitation -- the futuristic technology that would power the train across the desert at 300 mph -- has managed only to levitate a steady stream of money out of the federal budget: $54 million and counting." Continue reading...

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#10 Comment from runtune
8/12/06 7:55 PM | Permalink

Five years of Repubs has put us where we are" Quit blaming the group that is not in power for the death, destructiona dn trampling of the Constituition!
#9 Comment from jds906
7/16/06 10:55 PM | Permalink

If This Nation ever Elects Democrats to run AMERICA. For the Likes of their Leader---Mr. Dean?? We is in Deep Quicksand. They are Blaming Bush & Co. For Israel Defending themselves. All these Yrs. Israel gave their Enemies everything that they wanted. Arafat was given everything he wanted .But he turned it down as it did not SAY---"BUSH THE JEWS INTO THE SEA".
I hope Israel never stops Bombing till the TERRORIST Hollar UNCLE.
I would Join the Israel Army in a HEART BEAT. The Good People of the World have to Realize that our Enemys will never stop till we are all Dead. If we donot "UNITE" WE are going down in Flames. Starting NOW????
#8 Comment from edithandlarry
6/30/06 4:59 PM | Permalink

Dirty Harry is just another lying, egg-sucking dog of a scumbag Dummycrat!!

Case closed!!!
#7 Comment from mdco614
6/29/06 7:17 PM | Permalink

God forbid that democrats ever get in power again. We will all be prisoners in someone's prison of their making. They certainly have no intention of ever defending this country against anyone that stands for any decency. I get so sick of their obstructionalism, and deception in what they claim as "people of faith" and decency.
I can't stand stand them!! I have no faith in any of them.
#6 Comment from insidebirdhouse
6/14/06 6:55 AM | Permalink

Its something in here that I want to express to all you out there.

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