[Libloather]

But he's from Searchlight, Nevada.

They may just have to change that to Spotlight...

Reid's son leaves firm's capital office
Sunday, December 14, 2003
Las Vegas Review-Journal
By TONY BATT
STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON -- The youngest son of Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has left the Washington office of a prominent Las Vegas law firm to take a job with the Greenspun Corp. in Henderson.

Key Reid, 28, had managed the Washington office of Lionel Sawyer & Collins since it opened on March 11, 2002. He was the only attorney in the office.

Former Sen. Richard Bryan, D-Nev., who joined Lionel, Sawyer & Collins two years ago and lobbies Congress for the firm, worked with Key Reid during trips back to Washington.

"He let us know in November that he had decided to return to Nevada," Bryan said.

Key Reid could not be reached this week. He did not respond to voice messages left for him at Lionel Sawyer & Collins and at Greenspun Corp., a real estate development firm.

In July, the Los Angeles Times published a series of articles listing 17 senators and 11 House members whose relatives lobby or work for clients with business before Congress.

One of the articles spotlighted Reid and his four sons, who all were employed by Lionel Sawyer & Collins, the largest law firm in Nevada.

After being interviewed by the newspaper, Sen. Reid decided Key Reid and son-in-law Steven Barringer, also a lobbyist, should not be allowed to visit his office on behalf of clients.

Bryan said he did not think the newspaper series played a role in Key Reid's decision to leave Washington.

"Not as far as I know," Bryan said. "The senator (Reid) has a policy in which no member of his family can have personal contact with his office. I always handle those contacts. I don't think (the newspaper article) was a factor in Key's decision."

Brent Heberlee, a former Senate aide to Bryan and now a Washington lobbyist for SBC Communications has been hired to replace Key Reid, Bryan said.

[writer33]

Oh, yeah. I hope the people of Nevada that touched Harry Reid's name on the screen are thinking about that now. And I don't mean the fire-breathing libs. I'm talking about the uninformed CNN watchers.

[Mudboy Slim]

I wonder if Dingy Harry is fully aware of the political bull's-eye he's got smack dab between his shoulder blades? RATS are gonna start abandoning ship as they realize Reid's Obstructionist Strategy is doomed to failure. As long as the GOP demonstrates a stiffened spine fer the next coupla years, the RATS are utterly powerless to stop us from implementing a 100% Conservative Agenda!!

FReegards...MUD

[bdfromlv]

Yes we are sure that no one at that paper gave Reid a courtesy (fellow traveler) heads up to clean up their act before a damaging article is released.