Posted on 03/29/2014 3:34:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) weighed in on Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder’s new foundation to help Native Americans on Thursday and slammed the controversial owner for ‘throwing a few blankets at the Indians’ to get a nice tax break.
Reid made the comments about Snyder’s decision to create the Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation in an interview with The Washington Post.
“Dan Snyder, he’s got a great new deal,” the Senate Majority Leader said. “He’s going to throw a few blankets to the Indians and get a tax deduction for it.”
In the late 1700s, Europeans fighting in the French and Indian War distributed blankets infested with smallpox to Native Americans as a way to combat their enemy.
Reid went on to slam Snyder, who has refused to change the name of his team despite many calls to do so — including one from President Barack Obama. Saying the controversial Redskins owner was on the “wrong side of history,” the Nevada senator said it wasn’t a matter of if the team’s name will be changed, but when.
“I think the name will be changed within the next three years,” Reid said. “You know, I may slip a year or two, but I think it’s just a question of time. Because Native Americans are organized. We have Native Americans who now are not all poor. We’ve got these Indian gaming establishments who have money, who are going to help with this. And Dan Snyder’s not the only person in the world with money.”
Reid went on to reference the Washington-area basketball team, the Washington Wizards. Formerly the Washington Bullets, the team changed its name in 1997 because of its violent overtones.
“We’re all used to the Washington Wizards,” the Senate Majority Leader said. “And I don’t know what [the Redskins] will change the name to, but we’ll get used to it.”
In an attempt to silence critics calling on Snyder to change his team’s name, the owner announced the creation of the Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation earlier this week. The organization will attempt to help Native Americans in need.
Unfortunately for us, Harry is old enough to have been immunized.
Of course the Indians of North America are embarrassed at the name “Washington Redskins”.
They really don’t want the name of the city, Washington, associated with the noble and heroic designation of their collective race, the North American indigenous people from pre-Columbian times.
The Great White Father that was the symbol of Washington, DC, did not do all that well by the real living redskin Indians.
I thought it was $17,000, but maybe I’m wrong.
I hope you’re not driving. :-)
Thinking more. About being against guns while he works with organized crime to smuggle them into the country. Substitute whatever you want that applies to Reid instead of guns. That’s pulling a Lee in my book. But the real estate deal would probably net him a few million on the side
Nope just laying on couch listening to TV in other room
It originally was, but I believe yesterday they revised that figure upwards
Wow. I never thought anyone could make a sympathetic character out of the Boy Owner.
He should offer to change the name for money.
Leave the name and change the mascot to potatoes. Then the current mascot can chase the new mascot around the field and try to smash him. .... Variation on the sausage races !
He should make it a joke and laugh at his critics
Hannity covered it last night. With a little more research its more than doubled and has stimulated even more research into his slush fund.
Hannity questioned if this would be the beginning of the end for Dirty Harry.
Investigatingd corrupt D politicians seems to be in vogue right now!
I’m still waiting for Reid to return the money he took from Jack Abramoff.
The owner is so politically naive that he evidently doesn't know that snakes like Reid & Company are never satisfied with with a bone thrown their way, they want the whole body. Snyder just gave them more raw meat to sink their fangs into....and the owner is worse off than before he tried to buy the whole bunch of attackers off with a lame effort at "good works".
Snyder should have told them all to pound sand right at the onset of the fray...and then he should have taken off on a cruise on his new $70 million, 224 ft. yacht, the "Lady Anne".....laughing all the way to the Caribbean and his off-shore banks.
Leni
How did Harry’s fellow Mormons treat the Native Americans?
Reid will never return any money. He originally said he would return the $17,000 but now its much larger. Now expect him to just shuffle money from another of his campaigns fund/contributors
KEEP the name.
Change the mascot to a potato...
Oooo Good one! That should be worth several points!
This punk is really a nasty little lump, isn’t he?
and get a tax deduction for it.”
Yes, and we all know that Harry Greed doesn’t to for tax deductions (or for legislating profits on land deals either).
“Why do liberals stick their nose into others business so often?”
Because of their overwhelming arrogance.
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