The appearance of inpropriety is reason enough for him to step aside from this important office.
Who knows how many more layers of other "clerical errors" might lurk in this scandal?
The investigation will go on, but the shock to the conscience in this case is so intense because of the seriousness of the charges.
Sill not a peep out of the republican leadership
I Love it, love it, love it.
What a crook. So high and mighty. HUH
Wow...all those clerical errors. What a coincidence. Must be clerical errors caused him to pay his condo staff their bonuses with campaign donations too.
good stuff
Reid ping devolve
Thanks bitt.
retire now, this corruption can not stand...
http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=162777
Reid used campaign money for bonuses
By Associated Press
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 - Updated: 01:14 PM EST
WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has been using campaign donations instead of his personal money to pay Christmas bonuses for the support staff at the Ritz-Carlton where he lives in an upscale condominium. Federal election law bars candidates from converting political donations for personal use.
Questioned about the campaign expenditures by The Associated Press, Reid’s office said Monday his lawyers had approved them but he nonetheless was personally reimbursing his campaign for the $3,300 he had directed to the staff holiday fund at his residence.
Reid also announced he was amending his ethics reports to Congress to more fully account for a Las Vegas land deal, highlighted in an AP story last week, that allowed him to collect $1.1 million in 2004 for property he hadn’t personally owned in three years.
In that matter, the senator hadn’t disclosed to Congress that he first sold land to a friend’s limited liability company back in 2001 and took an ownership stake in the company. He collected the seven-figure payout when the company sold the land again in 2004 to others.
Reid portrayed the 2004 sale as a personal sale of land, not mentioning the company’s ownership or its role in the sale.
Reid said his amended ethics reports would list the 2001 sale and the company, called Patrick Lane LLC. He said the amended reports also would divulge two other smaller land deals he had failed to report to Congress.
"I directed my staff to file amended financial disclosure forms noting that in 2001, I transferred title to the land to a Limited Liability Corporation," Reid said in a statement issued by his office.
He said he believed the 2001 sale did not alter his ownership of the land but that he agreed to file the amended reports because "I believe in ensuring all facts come to light."
Reid labeled the AP story as the "latest attempt" by Republicans to affect the election. AP reported last week that it learned of the land deal from a former Reid adviser who had concerns about the way the deal was reported to Congress.
On the Ritz-Carlton holiday donations, Reid gave $600 in 2002, then $1,200 in 2004 and $1,500 in 2005 from his re-election campaign to an entity listed as the REC Employee Holiday Fund. His campaign listed the expenses as campaign "salary" for two of the years and as a "contribution" one year.
Reid’s office said the listing as salary was a "clerical error" and that the use of campaign money for the residential fund was approved by his lawyers. "I am reimbursing the campaign from my own pocket to prevent this issue from being used in the current campaign season to deflect attention from Republican failures," he said.
Residents and workers at the Ritz said the fund’s full name is the Residents Executive Committee Holiday Fund and that it collects money each year from the condominium residents to help provide Christmas gifts, bonuses and a party for the support staff. [continues]
A "clerical error"?! If anyone believes that, call me. I have a piece of ocean front property for sale in the Interior of Alaska where the temperature never dips below 75 degrees, and I want to sell it to YOU.
Outstanding post/thread. Thanks to you and all contributors. BTTT!
Oh My God, Harry Reid's house of cards begins to fall.
If Pelosi, Kennedy, Clinton, Kerry and Obama knew about it THEY MUST GO...and if they didn't know they should have known and THEY MUST GO.
Hang the bastard before a trial, and simply claim "clerical error" for not providing a trial...
Semper Fi
What Reid is certain of is:
The land is in Nevada.
The land glows.
It is suitable for a strip mall because it wont need a lot of lights to find it in the dark.
It needs to be rezoned "commercial plutonium lite".
Well now I guess with these standards Wesley Snipes can just say he made a few technical errors on his taxes and will correct it immediately.
BTTT
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Clerical errors? My @$$.
Zeet!