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Harry Reid won’t be in New Orleans for fundraiser
Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 | 2:40 p.m.
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will not be hitting the Big Easy for a planned fundraiser Friday hosted by the Louisiana senator who secured a $100 million Medicaid boost for her state in the proposed Senate health reform bill.
The Senate is scheduled to remain in session again this weekend as senators vote on a package of annual spending bills while awaiting a cost assessment on the latest health care proposals.
A Reid spokesman confirmed the senator would not be attending the New Orleans fundraiser, which was to be co-hosted by Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu. The Hill newspaper reported this afternoon that the event has been canceled.
Reid had tried to give senators (and staff) the weekend off as they await the health bill’s cost analysis, suggesting they could wrap up votes on the spending bills today. But Republicans criticized the move, saying the weekend should be spent discussing the health care bill.
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Landrieu is a whore for the insurance companies.
Dingo: you should put your prose to music, Man!
If Mary is a political whore then harry is her pimp or her john? She bragged she got $300 million for her first vote. harry and nancy treat the treasury like it's their private slush fund. Just imagine how much is coming back to them personally.
You tell em dingo ! Reid doesn't have to be anywhere to please anyone ! who cares if its a fundraiser, if The State Of Nevada doesn't benefit then why should we send him there anyway ? The conservative right has no party, no basis for any argument. You see how quick they are to jump on this story which means NOTHING ! they are grasping for straws !!!
Scary Reid is out to "buy" her vote. We all know it. He's a crooked senator and knows a thing or two about dirty politics.