Pelosi's husband paid up to $5 million for football team; Reid bummed $3,625 ride from Feinstein

Washington Post ^ | June 16, 2010; 1:31 PM ET | By Paul Kane

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An early review of federal financial disclosure forms reveals some interesting tidbits about the Democratic leaders.

• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul, who runs her financial portfolio, invested between $1 million and $5 million into a new professional sports league, the United Football League, in order to become the owner of the California Redwoods, a team based out of San Francisco.

Pelosi made three separate payments to the UFL in April, July and October 2009.

• Nancy Pelosi's 2008 political memoir, "Know Your Power", continues to outperform Nevada Sen. Harry Reid's 2008 book, "The Good Fight". The Senate majority leader collected no royalties for his book, while last year the House speaker collected $102,161 in royalties for hers.

• On Christmas Eve, after the Senate's historic 60-40 vote for President Obama's health-care legislation, Reid could not get a flight home to Nevada. So he turned to Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), who along with her husband owns a private jet. Feinstein flew Reid to San Francisco, at an estimated cost of $3,625, according to Reid's forms. Aides said that, from San Francisco, Reid flew to Reno, where he met up with his wife and family in time to celebrate Christmas.

The disclosure forms, released in mid-June every year, provide only a momentary snapshot of congressional financial holdings and give a broad range of values for those assets held on Dec. 31 of the previous year. They also include other forms of income, such as gifts, and list all real estate properties aside from the primary residence for lawmakers.

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[Leo Farnsworth]

The guy can’t even book a flight? AND he runs the Senate.

SHEESE!

[infidel29]

This is probably a bit off topic for this thread, but in regard to Pelosi's husband being an owner in the UFL.

The UFL is a pissant league in comparison to the NFL, all the big names are in the NFL, the NFL is a global giant. That said is it curious to any others that the head of the NFLPA is DeMaurice Smith, a guy with no experience in the job he holds, big shock. He has stated, in oh so many words, that the NFLPA is going to play hardball with the NFL owners, to the point of forcing the owners to lock out the players after the current bargaining agreement expires.
If this happens, the players could then choose to sign on with the UFL. Now I'm sure the NFL owners aren't soiling themselves with worry over this, but it is still curious to me that the union chief for the players is: DeMaurice Smith, attorney and former member of the 0bama transition team in the department of Justice, civil rights division. Maybe I'm just playing Alex Jones here and connecting dots to things that don't connect, but I remember it being said that if the NFL has an ugly labor battle in 2011, it would be an economic bonanza for the UFL if the cards fall their way. Is DeMaurice Smith a crooked dealer at the table?

Any enlighted freeper football fans have any insights?