You look under a few rocks, not very big rocks and you don’t have to look very hard, and you find all sorts of stuff.
Neil Kornze is the 34 year-old son of one of dingy harry’s biggest donors Barrick Gold. This from Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/02/harry-reid-gold-member?page=2
All politicians are dirty and all who deal with them are dirty.
But Reid’s ties to mining run deeper than his sentimental connection to his rough-and-tumble origins. His sons Rory and Leif work for law firms that represent mining companies. Since 1999, his son-in-law, Steven Barringer, has earned as much as $3.7 million lobbying for mining interests including Barrick Gold, though he does not lobby Reid directly. Reid’s natural resources staffer, Neil Kornze, is the son of a geologist who discovered Barrick’s Betze deposit outside Elko. Since 1994, mining interests have donated more than $269,000 to Reid, including at least $82,000 from Barrick and its employees. Any suggestion, however, that these links have swayed Reid is “an attempt to draw a conclusion that would be inaccurate,” says his spokesman Jon Summers. (Reid declined to be interviewed for this article.)
And this from a Nevada paper.
http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/obama-picks-neil-kornze-as-next-blm-head
At the BLM, as senior advisor, Kornze worked on renewable and conventional energy development, transmission siting, and conservation policy. He was instrumental in the Western Solar Plan, which established 17 solar energy zones on public land, and in approving nearly 50 utility-scale renewable energy projects.
I think Neil was just confirmed in March... he sure got busy paying back debts fast didn’t he?