Posted on 10/17/2006 5:42:22 PM PDT by grandpa jones
The Reid land scandal took another bizarre turn as the Minority Leader revealed that two additional “clerical errors” had caused him to file false ethics reports. Both of the “clerical errors” involved land transactions. One of which, Reid had failed to disclose ownership of for over 20 years.
Reid revealed the information as an afterthought to his announcement that he had agreed to repay his campaign for funds which were dispersed in violation of FEC regulations. Reid said the land transactions, as well as his failure to disclose, amounted to “two minor matters that were inadvertently left off my original disclosure forms.”
So far, Reid has characterized the FEC matter as a “clerical error” and both of the additional land transactions as “clerical errors” as well.
Reid has promised to “more fully disclose” details regarding the 2004 land scheme in which Reid received a payout of $1.1 million. The false ethics disclosures were not characterized as “clerical errors”, but instead were said to be a “GOP smear campaign”, even though AP reported last week that it learned of the land deal from a former Reid adviser who had concerns about how it was reported to Congress.
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How can this guy sleep???? Oh he is a rat...
You're right. I just looked at their site and found a link to this story:
Buried in the last 3 paragraphs on the article about the hotel payments from campaign funds, is this:
On the land dealings, Reid announced Monday he had failed to disclose two other transactions on his prior ethics reports and would account for those on his amended reports along with the 2001 sale.-PJThe first, he said, involved the 2004 sale of about one-third acre of land he owned in his hometown of Searchlight, Nev. And he said he had not reported his ownership since 1985 of a quarter acre of land his brother gave him in 1985.
Reid said the failure to disclose those transactions previously was due to "clerical errors" and they amounted to "two minor matters that were inadvertently left off my original disclosure forms."
"Yes, and Sandy Burger's stuffing those classified documents down his skivvies was simply a "clerical error.""
He really did it because he needed to change his Depends and that's all that was available.
The party of clerical errors and bureaucratic snafus.
Come on Pubbies...Lets define the meaning of "is" for these sleazeballs on election day!
Brit had an expanded report on tonight. Mentioned the Christmas gifts being bought out of Campaign Funds, in violation of FEC rules. This thing will fester and burst, but it is slow to come to the dbm, just like with rathergate.
LLS
Culture of corruption.
Too damn bad that the media only cares about GOP corruption.
Yes he does think we are that stupid ... and you know what? He will get away with it, and we're just gonna have to take it. Thats the way its going to be.
I kept reading the AP story, and wondered, why hasn't anyone mentioned this? I just re-wrote the story, and used Reid's own words to let him hang himself.
"And he said he had not reported his ownership since 1985 of a quarter acre of land his brother gave him in 1985."
A twenty-one year "clerical error?" That's a good one.
If you make the same "mistake" over and over again, and it's in your favor, it's no mistake.
Prosecutors' call this a "pattern". These weren't inadvertant individual mistakes. He got away with one for so long, he went ahead and did it again. And then again.
Reid obviously believed he really got away with it once and thought he could keep doing it.
Reid is dumping all this news on his illegal land deals now since no one is paying attention....
Someone that is minority party leader does not make $100k's "clerical errors". This is guy reported to live at The Ritz Carlton.
This stinks!
Gee whiz, Harry needs some new clerics...
Yeah, this is becoming a religion with him.
-PJ
Yup, a $750,000 condo that he paid cash for.
I guess when Jesse James robbed banks, I guess it was just a 'clerical error.'
And not a word on the MSM, right?
Dirty, dirty, dirty harry.....
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