Mr. XXX XXX
Reno, NV
Dear Mr. X:
Thank you for contacting me to share your views. I appreciate hearing from you.
I believe in an America where everyone has a voice and an ability to participate in the political process. But we can all agree that our democracy is not for sale to the richest one percent. In 2010, in a 5-4 ruling in Citizens United v Federal Elections Commission, the Supreme Court struck down decades of precedent that prevented corporations and unions from funding political advertisements. Since the Citizens United decision, the floodgates have opened for unaccountable and anonymous spending from shadowy special interests that want to influence our elections.
In my view, our democracy suffers when the voices of middle class Americans are drowned out by a few wealthy individuals who can afford to put millions into campaign advertisements. In one attempt to buy the upcoming election, two billionaire oil baron brothers, Charles and David Koch, have publicly stated their intent to spend countless sums to further their radical agenda. The Koch brothers oppose commonsense environmental regulations that allow us to breathe clean air and drink pure water. They want to dismantle collective bargaining rights for workers and reduce their voice in the workplace. They want to repeal health reform that helps people afford lifesaving treatments. Simply put, the Kochs are attempting to rig the system to benefit themselves and the wealthiest one percent at the expense of working families throughout Nevada and our nation.
As long as the Koch brothers continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying elections, I will continue to do all I can to expose their intentions. Again, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me. I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.
My best wishes to you.
Sincerely, HARRY REID United States Senator
Hmmm. No mention of union money or hollyweird money or radical left wing extremist socialist groups.
The man is overtly trying desperately to start a class war. I’m embarassed for the man.
As I said before, The Koch Brothers, despite being billionaires, live in Harry Reid’s head RENT FREE ( with lots of space to boot ).
“And it’s the Strawberries too!!!”
Like George Soros?
Stinky Dingy Harry has completely lost it. The staffers who write all of the rants for him to regurgitate on the Senate floor really need to tell the boy to lighten up.
Thank God for David and Charles Koch...
Here's the thing, D. Harry...No amount of money spent on false and misleading propaganda can have ANY effect on elections, unless the target audience is ignorant, detached from reality and clueless about bad laws and consequences.
No group spends more than the Dimocrats, their supporters, thug unions and the Obamapress.
The biggest spenders during elections are the agents of fraudulent vote, phantom voters, repeat voters, and dead voters, made real by the Soros machine recruitment of the least productive, most ignorant and criminally inclined welfare subculture.
LET'S TRY VOTER ID AND SEE HOW THAT WORKS OUT!
It always amazes me when old Harry Greed blasts the “rich”. What Bxxxx he has!
I guess all those billionaires that own Las Vegas casinos contributing to Harry’s political war chest, they don’t count?
Shadow Billionaires like George Soros? Oh wait...
Hey senile, corrupt, despicable Whore House Harry:
Just exactly where did your millions come from - given that you have an IQ even lower than the Obamadork and the Pelosi-wench (if that’s even possible), you have no discernible ability of any kind, you are ugly and have no personality. Boy, did you belong in the senate where you blended right in.
Could it be that some “shadow” billionaire made you his b*tch years ago.
Heh, perhaps you’re looking forward to that gay marriage, dork.
Yeah, that Tom Steyer and that Soros guy are corrupting the political process with all their filthy lucre....
Oh, wait.
Can a Senator be sued for slander? or is it libel?
not sure of the difference...
I just looked up “can a Senator be sued for slander”? and apparently they are immune for anything said on the Senate floor.
However, this is a letter. Hmmmm.
Do you mean non-citizen George Soros?! Is that who you refer to DingyHarry?
She never misses an opportunity to dig at Republicans. Never.
Right or wrong, Pelosi and Reid are out there fighting the fight, making outrageous statements regardless of the truth.
Where are our guys?
Why aren't we right behind them attacking back? Forget about defending Bush against Pelosi's claim - that's just fighting on their terrain. We should be directly attacking Pelosi as having no ideas, as stuck on Bush, as being responsible for the today's problems because of Obamacare, TARP, whatever. Make it up if they have to.
“The House has passed dozens of bills that would help fuel economic growth by expanding all types of energy production, protecting families and small business from ObamaCare, improving education and job training, and more," Boehner said in a statement. "Senate Democrats have no excuse for standing in the way of these common-sense jobs measures, many of which passed with bipartisan support, and I urge them to act immediately.”
That's what our guys do.
-PJ
Of course except those billionaires that back Reid.
Rigging elections is strictly the purview of government agencies !