The Battle for America 2010: DISCLOSE-ing Harry Reid’s Pay-to-Play Habit
Says Ciara Matthews, a spokesperson for Reid’s opponent, GOP nominee Sharron Angle:
The news that Senator Reid is raking in massive amounts of money in campaign contributions from the same company that he is sponsoring earmarks on behalf of is very disturbing. … With all the trouble the Democratic Party has gotten into over the past year with “pay to play” politics, you would think that the majority leader would be more careful picking and choosing which companies he went to bat for.
Records show that Reid was the sole sponsor of over 98 earmarked projects totaling $132 million, according to the government transparency site Legistorm.com.
Recently, a private 527 website run by Nevada Republican Danny Tarkanian, who lost the GOP primary to Sharron Angle, questioned the Arcata earmarks. The site harryreidvotes.com claims that Arcata employees and family members of Arcata employees have contributed about $140,000 to Harry Reid’s campaigns. The site questions the propriety of Reid giving Department of Defense contracts to a large donor of his campaign, when the DoD has already terminated their program.
Tim Wong, president and CEO of Arcata, declined to be interviewed for this story, agreeing only to respond via email. In his email, Wong seemed to indicate that Arcata Associates used employees to act as a conduit for campaign contributions to Senator Reid on behalf of the company. Law prohibits corporate contributions to candidates. Writes Wong:
We appreciate your inquiry regarding Arcata Associates and its campaign contributions. … Arcata Associates has been a strong member of the Las Vegas business community for over 30 years. During that time, we have contributed to the campaigns of countless local, state and federal candidates of both parties who we believe can most effectively represent the people and businesses of this state, including Senator Reid.
Arcata has so far declined to answer follow-up inquiries regarding its contributions. Ciara Matthews concluded:
While this type of behavior may be politics as usual in Washington, the voters of Nevada are sick and tired of it, which is why they will vote for Sharron Angle in November.
A request for comment by Harry Reid’s office went unanswered.
Skeletons in the undisclosed political closet.
Politics are going from bad to worse, as the true temperament is shown by distressed incumbents trying to hold onto their seats in Washington or state assemblies. By hell and high water lawmakers will do anything not to be voted out of their cushy jobs. Already they have their perpetual pensions and outrageous perks. Let’s take Jerry Brown in his tournament against Meg Whitman. Out of the blue comes an allegation that the lady hired and exploited an illegal alien? Personally I think this is a vendetta, attributed to Jerry Brown being in bed with the powerful unions. My private issue is that we must purge our country of illegal aliens, to raise wages for the average worker and not let it remain as a magnet for desperate people from around the world. The undercurrent is that business, including corporation in the agricultural commerce, are not required by law to pay for the health care and education, nor the undisclosed programs given to illegal workers and families and children—you as the taxpayer are weighed down with this tax..
Think about this–if we were not forced by law to pay taxes, to support the illegal household’s, we would have more than enough money to concentrate on our own impoverished American people. My guess the unions do not want billionaire Meg Whitman in office, because they will not be able to influence her as Jerry Brown with questionable monetary favors and campaign contributions? Let’s face it–after a whole year has passed, this elusive illegal alien female maid comes out the woodwork to accuse Whitman, of all sorts of improprieties. This lady has already admitted she broke immigration laws by using false identification, and then she suddenly comes forward to denounce Meg Whitman. Unions and other entities have plenty of money to spend, to deceive the Public with their own ideological premise?
Then in New York with have gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo who has yet to be questioned on his connection with the real estate crash? Cuomo has been branded with the label; “The architect of Ruin” as HUD’s chief in 1997 He had complete regulatory authority over home finance, with the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporations (FHLMC) — also known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. As a blunt liberal Democrat, Cuomo immediately began implementing plans for “change”. His agenda was an entire social engineering programs, planned to — in his words –“improve the “GSE presence in the sub-prime market, that could have significant benefit to lower-income families, minorities, and families living in underserved areas.” Cuomo arrogantly announced that the funding would be used to let families and even hundreds of thousands illegal aliens with no—DOWN PAYMENTS; purchasing homes with low interest rate mortgages.
By 2000, Andrew Cuomo had manipulated colossal new lending programs for the poor and others who couldn’t normally qualify. It raised the prerequisite for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase half of all of their loans from low-income borrowers, with little or no paperwork required. Previously, the man had issued 187 pages of regulations for Mac and Mae. These policies “unequivocally rejected the proposal of imposing any new reporting requirements on the GSEs… This became a major problem–that resulted in HUD having no legal direction of effectively telling how abusive the low-income mortgage lending it was mandating might be.” When the housing price bubble finally collapsed, after igniting under the insane social engineering programs shaped by Andrew Cuomo, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were all but insolvent; leaving the taxpayers with a bill that could reach $1 trillion dollars.
How quickly Liberal oriented editors in the National press intentionally fail to pass this outrageous performance on to the general public. ALL INCUMBENTS HAVE NASTY SKELETONS IN THEIR CUPBOARDS, WHICH NEED TO BE OPENED WIDE FOR THE VOTING ELECTORATE. Who wants either Andrew Cuomo or Jerry Brown in office with portentous cases of contemptible injustices to the US population, let alone California or New York? Then we have Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Nancy Pelosi using their ill-gotten influence in”Gerrymandering” elected districts. Specifically in California to circumvent the voters’ wishes as with proposition 24, by trying to deceive the people with a undermining ad campaign. It’s shameless that the national press and its investigative reporters have aligned themselves with the Liberal extremists and fringe groups and keeping quiet on these subjects.
All incumbents must be detached from office in November, so we can start afresh and find some middle ground to resurface for this offal. We don’t need any more Harry Reid, who himself has questionable business practices since he has been in office, nor his cemented vision of overwhelming America with illegal foreign faces. Reid must be unseated, in addition with Democrat Barbara Boxer who was against building the Mexican/US fence and then attributed to underfunding as a single–one–line –fence–AND NOT TWO RUNNING PARALLEL THROUGH THE FOUR BORDER STATES. Reid also nearly crushed the E-Verify program. Yet he has shielded somewhere between 12 and 20 million illegal entries from any kind of immigration enforcement and now yet further orders by ICE headquarters, to detain—ONLY– criminals.
Our country is under terrible financial strain from two wars and a commitment by Democrats and their Liberal base, with lesser few of elusive Republicans as pro amnesty aficionados. These lawmakers are still determined in entertaining funding, the support of Instant citizenship for the infants of foreign nationals, public entitlements and cash payments to anybody who skirts our immigration laws in arriving here. The dollar amount we spend on unauthorized people is a phenomenon, which is the GRP of many small countries. GOOGLE OR YAHOO–using such keywords as “illegal immigrant costs or Anchor baby costs”–then learn the truth for yourselves, instead of my dialogue and then understand where massive amounts of your taxes are going? All pro-Amnesty legislators must not get a foot in the door again, as they will pack the welfare offices. As an Independent voter,
I like to throw my angry words of inconceivable amounts of cash expenditures for illegal aliens at my Indiana politicians. You can do the same in your state at either your federal dimwits or state politicians who acclaim to be deaf, but readily available for special interest lobbyists. Rattle politicians self righteous cages at 202-224-3121. Remember if we don’t speak up for ourselves–NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE. Lastly, keep a sharp eye on the polling stations as illegal immigrants who have broached our immigration laws. They will think nothing of violating our sovereign citizens rights in fraudulent voting, specially with absentee ballots or states with lax laws.
Harry pretended to be anti-mob, but you know this is Vegas.
How does a guy who spends his whole life in office amass $12 million fortune? REID.
I would hope when the smoke clears and the Republicans are back in power, Reid and Pelosi along with their cell mate Obama are all brought up on charges stemming from high crimes and misdemeanors and far beyond to the possibility of TREASON.