Turtle, schmurtle!!! Anyone know anything about a friend of Harry Reed wanting to build something on land part of or adjacent to the cattle grazing lands in dispute?
The whole story about Reid and his sons and the Chinese reminds me of something that happened a decade ago. Reid was able to get federal lands around Vegas de-federalized so that developers could develop it.
The trick to getting it done was this: the municipalities hired his sons as lobbyists. And the developers separately hired his sons as lobbyists. Each player cut a check for $250k to $300k to their lobbyists. And Reid came through and the lands were sold by the feds to the municipalities and the developers.
Note that I do not suggest that anything illegal happened here. Reid is a lawmaker and his sons are lawyers so I am sure they did everything strictly by the law.
My comment is to note that, if you want to talk to Harry Reid, the trick is a check made out to his sons. The second thing to note is that just as he can seize land on behalf of the feds, he can do the reverse and arrange for federal land to be handed off to private parties. You just have to call his sons. I imagine they are in the phone book.
Exactly right! Nothing happens in Nevada unless dingy Harry Reid wants it to happen.