Harry the Gambler Reid, Busted!

Yet somehow the is a lack of news about it from the MSM.

from JoeUser Forums
Happy the hypocrite got busted taking BRIBES in the guise of Three sets of boxing match tickets, while doing an investigation into, what else? corruption in Boxing!

Of course Senator Reid sees nothing wrong with what he did and excuses it with " I got these tickets" so I could further investigate
corruption in what is his home states second largest revenue, Gambling being the first.

I am amazed that Reid who has been so outspoken and sanctimonious while decrying the Bribed taken by Republicans would just be willing to accept tickets to a boxing match given to him by promoters, promoters being the ones that profit the most from boxing, besides the combatants themselves.
RETRACTION!!!! IT WAS NOT POROMOTERS IT WAS A STATE SANCTION BOARD, OK BAKER? FOR gODS SAKE.
What is more amazing is the almost total lack of coverage from the left leaning news outfits, which as we all know make up around 90% of the news organizations.

If this was, lets say Tom Delay it would be front pages news and we would be seeing much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth from the hypocratic party. The hypocrats best known these days for there total lack of insight into mainstream America they are also known for being the most obstructionist party to even hold political office.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I caught it on fair and balanced this morning, and boy was I not surprised. Whaddamaroon.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

But...but...but....

Harry Reid's "independent...like Nevada" (his 2004 campaign slogan) surely he wouldn't accept bribes that would compromise that independence!

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
But col just told me corruption was in the Republican party. Why would he say that?

Culture of corruption.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
#1 by singrdave
Tue, May 30, 2006 1:56 PM


caught it on fair and balanced this morning, and boy was I not surprised. Whaddamaroon.


Just another prime example of how far the democrats have degenerated, lying is bad, unless they do it, taking bribes is bad, unless they do it and are caught, of course
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
2 by Gideon MacLeish
Tue, May 30, 2006 1:59 PM


But...but...but....
Harry Reid's "independent...like Nevada" (his 2004 campaign slogan) surely he wouldn't accept bribes that would compromise that independence!


ya see it was ok for him to take these bribes because it was helping him do his research! yeh that's it research.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
#3 by Island Dog
Tue, May 30, 2006 2:16 PM


But col just told me corruption was in the Republican party. Why would he say that?

Culture of corruption.


col gene is so hate filled if you were to empty him of his hatred for the Republicans {WHICH HE CLAIMS TO BE A MEMBER OF!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH} he would be as empty as a condom without the ejaculation. I really think genme should change his name to GANGgreengene {with a tip of the hat to ted, who I never see anymore}
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'll bet on Harry Reid being dirty. Sadly the odds aren't enough to make it a bet that would ever pay off
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply By: terpfan1980Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2006I'll bet on Harry Reid being dirty. Sadly the odds aren't enough to make it a bet that would ever pay off


far as I am concerned they are all a bunch of thieves and liars. They really think they are better than us common folk are. We would never really know what scum they are unless they get caught.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
We have all the Bush/Clinton/etc., haters to thank for this kind of thing if you ask me. When we spend all our time blaming the President for everything, the Congress gets a pass and lives it up in the shadow of the White House. The American people need to be educated and finally see how little the President is really to blame for, and how gargantuan an affect Congress has on their lives.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
9 by BakerStreet
Tue, May 30, 2006 4:03 PM


We have all the Bush/Clinton/etc., haters to thank for this kind of thing if you ask me. When we spend all our time blaming the President for everything, the Congress gets a pass and lives it up in the shadow of the White House. The American people need to be educated and finally see how little the President is really to blame for, and how gargantuan an affect Congress has on their lives.


even with the Presidents "numbers" so low the Congress approval rating is even lower. The president is much like the captain of a ship, even if he is sleeping belows decks and his ship runs aground, it's still his fault.

The entire congress, and that is both houses are about as useful to the AMERICAN people as reading glasses are for someone with no eyes.
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have to disagree. If that were true you wouldn't see people who do absolutely nothing of merit get re-elected over and over and over like some Senate aristocrat. I'd be willing to bet the number of people in the US who can name their current congressmen representing them would be less than half the number that voted last time. I'd be willing to bet that even fewer could name one law passed this year.

The President isn't the captain of a ship, because there are checks and balances. The crew can't override the captain's veto unless there is a mutiny. The captain of a ship could take part of the crew's suggestion and leave the rest. The president either accepts laws warts and all or throws the baby out with the bathwater. And that's not even getting into the courts.

No, in the end, the real power in the US is in the congress, being slipped past us buried under page after page of legislation that no one ever reads. When people don't even know who their legislators are, you can bet they won't notice that little amendment on page 550 subparagraph whatever. The power is in the fine print, because in the end that is what bites you on the ass before you know it is even law.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply By: BakerStreetPosted: Tuesday, May 30, 2006


No, in the end, the real power in the US is in the congress, being slipped past us buried under page after page of legislation that no one ever reads. When people don't even know who their legislators are, you can bet they won't notice that little amendment on page 550 subparagraph whatever. The power is in the fine print, because in the end that is what bites you on the ass before you know it is even law.


perfect! and so true. I keep wanting to shout 'WAKE-UP AMERICA!!"
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
I just heard them talking about this on Fox News and it seems to be a non-issue. He didn't change his vote and appears to have never given anyone the idea that he would. McCain paid for his own ticket, which is probably better, but this to me seems benign and just a political jab.

They are digging for dirt pretty hard, but they should know by now that if you pitch this sort of thing and strike out, YOU end up looking worse than the guy you are trying to jab.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
20 to 1 that he gets away scott free from complete news bashing. Anyone...Anyone?



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Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, he doesn't really appear to deserve bashing, really. Ethically it is the same junk that happens all the time in every corner of the Congress. It could have been done better, but making a fuss over a couple or three tickets just makes it look like a witchhunt; and constantly reminds people how huge Abramoff's excesses with legistlators were.

In fact...

Given that he does deal with the gaming commissions in his job, and making reasons to go to these events would be pretty easy, we should be happy someone other than the Federal government is paying for it. Let the state folks there pay for $1400 tickets. It would suck if that was on the Fed's dime.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, he doesn't really appear to deserve bashing, really. Ethically it is the same junk that happens all the time in every corner of the Congress. It could have been done better, but making a fuss over a couple or three tickets just makes it look like a witchhunt; and constantly reminds people how huge Abramoff's excesses with legistlators were.


It's not really about Reid as much as it's the hypocrisy of the democratic party. All we have heard for month is the democratic catch phrase, "culture of corruption". I see they haven't used this in several weeks because their hypocrisy is now showing.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oh, they use it. Pelosi for instance says that Republicans are to blame for Democratic excesses because they created the "environment" for rampant corruption. That way, no matter how heinous Dems get, it is always going to be the Republican's fault.
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply By: ElindelWolfPosted: Tuesday, May 30, 200620 to 1 that he gets away scott free from complete news bashing. Anyone...Anyone?


not only will there not be a story aBOUT IT, REID JUST SAID HE WOULD DO IT AGAIN.
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply By: BakerStreetPosted: Tuesday, May 30, 2006I just heard them talking about this on Fox News and it seems to be a non-issue. He didn't change his vote and appears to have never given anyone the idea that he would. McCain paid for his own ticket, which is probably better, but this to me seems benign and just a political jab.They are digging for dirt pretty hard, but they should know by now that if you pitch this sort of thing and strike out, YOU end up looking worse than the guy you are trying to jab.


the unspoken part of all this is that reid was a professional boxer and a referee, for sure he did not to do anymore "reaearch"
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
Trow da bums out! Alluvem.
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
I hate always being the one to jab you, but this article isn't accurate, though. Is there anything in the real story that makes out Reid to be a "gambler"? It wasn't boxing promoters, either, it was the state athletic commission, a state governmental agency.

Granted, they were on the other side of the issue as he was, but imagine the press if he had continued opposing the commission, which he did, without even setting foot in a boxing match. It would have been more ethical for him to have bought the tickets himself, sure. I don't think this amounts to what you consider a bribe, though, not by a long shot.

It just doesn't do the Republican cause much justice to lambast Reid for three tickets when their own scandals amount to huge amounts of money and gifts that simply can't be excused. It just makes it look like they are fishing for some way to change the focus.

Sorry again for the jab, but I was kind of waiting around to see if you would concede that it wasn't what you were making it out to be.
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reply By: BakerStreetPosted: Tuesday, May 30, 2006


Sorry again for the jab, but I was kind of waiting around to see if you would concede that it wasn't what you were making it out to be.


WAAS GOING TO STRAIGHTEN IT OUT TODAY, DID NOT GET THE FULL STORY TILL LATE LAST NIGHT.

yikes sorry caps.

I call harry reid the "gambler" because of the state he represents, kinda like my pet name for hanoijohn kerry andf drunken ted kennedy.

As far as the right making a big thing out of it, it's just politics, they are trying to turn the heat off of them and onto the democrats.
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
My only concern, though, is that in other times when we have really legitimate gripes that really, really concern us, we'll have people conditioned to believe THAT is 'just politics'. It's already true, really. It bothers me that many Dem voters brush off Mollahan and Jefferson as retaliation for Delay and Cunningham.

I just think that the more we cry wolf, the less they listen.
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
23 by BakerStreet
Wed, May 31, 2006 09:15 AM


I just think that the more we cry wolf, the less they listen


agreed and from now on I will make sure to get all the facts, in other words I will do my part.
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top

Given that he does deal with the gaming commissions in his job, and making reasons to go to these events would be pretty easy, we should be happy someone other than the Federal government is paying for it. Let the state folks there pay for $1400 tickets. It would suck if that was on the Fed's dime.

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