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Published Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | 2:32 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | 3:47 p.m.
Harry Reid
Gearing up for his run for reelection, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is putting money in the bank.
Reid, who is planning to raise $25 million for his campaign, already has almost $11 million, Friends for Harry Reid announced today. The group said Reid, with 16 months left until the November 2010 election, has more than $7.33 million in cash on-hand.
In the last three months of fundraising, Reid raised more than $3.25 million, the group said, citing numbers it will file Wednesday with the Federal Elections Commission.
"Our campaign is strong and getting stronger by the day," Reid said in a statement. "The financial support we have already received will enable us to run a campaign that communicates with Nevadans in every corner of the state."
Brian Walsh, communications director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, criticized what he called Reid's focus on fundraising.
"It's clear the only Nevadan who is benefiting from Harry Reid having the title of Senate Majority Leader is Harry Reid," Walsh said in an e-mail. "While he's spending all this time stocking his campaign war chest with PAC money from his Washington friends, Nevada homes are being foreclosed at a record rate and unemployment is among the highest in the nation."
Reid was elected to the Senate in 1986. He was re-elected in 1992, 1998 and 2004.
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"Reid, who is planning to raise $25 million for his campaign'
I know Too Big to Fail Senator Harry Reid'm and Weep has low approval ratings in the 30s - but why would he need to raise so much when he has no opponent.
Worry about how inept he is and the laws he is passing?
re: Future--Be specific--What laws? Enough prattle. Name three laws Harry has passed which are bad for Nevadans.
Nevada ranking low in priority for Reid. Now and for the next 16 months priority #1 is the campaign trail. Reid wants some more passing bills without reading them. Hows that stimulus working?
I have a freind who interned for Reid in DC a couple of years back who gave me a little insight. He has money to earn because millions of national dollars is going to pour into Nevada to get Reid out. I think the best chance anyone has to be Reid is Dean Heller. He has the North vote, he'll get the conservative vote in Clark and Reid won't have the Obama-nites coming out in droves. Reid will have all the democrats, but the main push will be for senior citizens. They rarely change their minds on governmental leadership. If Heller can some how pull some Seniors to his side, a victory is very probable. However, I think it unlikely even though I will hit the pavement for Heller.
Kind of makes the $750K that Sarah's PAC raised pale-in comparison, huh?
GO Harry! Keep adding to your war chest and get health care passed.
Reid has signed on to the Dream Act '09 bill which will allow any child brought into our country by undocumented aliens a pathway to citizenship. These children may have been under the age of 18 at the time the were brought into this country but now may be up to the age of 30 years old. The United States has no records of when these immigrants were brought into our country and how old they were when they were brought here.There are estimates of 5 to 7 million children that will qualify for citizenship. The catch is once they are granted citizenship, they now can apply to bring in their family and relitives with a greencard through family member. We can now multiply 5 to 7 million by what, 5, 10 ... Whats your guesstamite?
If Mr. Reid was worried about his constituents who voted him into office he'd be getting ICE(Immigration and Customs Enforcement) into our state and deporting all the illegals here taking jobs away from over 150,000 citizens now out of work. You may be employed now, but if Harry gets re-elected you may end up on the breadlines someday.
Hairless reid is no friend of nevadans...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yW...
this is your senator...taxes are voluntary..LOL
Republicans have a history of spending a ton of national dollars to oust the top Democrat in the Senate. I don't blame him for thinking they're going to do it to him this time.
Senior senators are good for the state - you think Nevada gets a pittance now? Imagine if we have one rookie senator in the minority (if Reid were to lose) and one powerless Republican philanderer.
Harry won reelection in 2004 by carrying over 6o% of the votes cast....His current popularity among voters in Nevada (particularly in the cow counties) may be suffering but it appears that the Republicans don't have a viable candidate capable of beating Harry.
The last I heard Dean Heller said he doesn't want to run against Harry.....everyday brings the election one day closer. Even if Heller should decide to run against Harry, what is he going to use for money? Money wins electios....
reagan21 said "Reid won't have the Obama-nites coming out in droves." Not sure where reagan21 got that information from...look for Obama to spend some time in Nevada during Harry's election campaign. The Democrats won't allow their speaker in the Senate to get beat....
The debt America is running up is intended to cause a complete collapse of the dollar. The purposeful actions of Barack Obama and the democratic party (think Harry Reid) is to create such social disorder, to such a degree, that the American people will allow the country to complete its drift toward a complete Marxist type of government. Barack Obama will step forward as the new messiah, or as truth should be said, despot!
This started fifty years ago by the actions of two men. Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Thank you Comrade Harry. Brother in Marxism!
Harry Reid. Bad for Nevada, bad for America!
7/14/2009 6:07:34 PM
He will need a ton of cash.
His approval ratings are in the low 30's.
For some reason, people believe they have to vote for one of two parties. This saying "The lessor or two evils" just don't have to be. That's how we got into this mess. You are not throwing your vote away by voting with your conscience. You're only throwing it away if you DON'T vote with your conscience. An independant.
SgtRock said....
"He will need a ton of cash.
His approval ratings are in the low 30's."
I guess you're talking about Harry Reid. Right? It appears that you're hoping that Reid will lose......nothing more! It looks as if he's going to have several tons of cash to spend on his reelection. Harry has NEVER been popular in the cow counties. Nothing new there!
The GOP is in a complete melt down. They're lost in the political wilderness. They have few leaders and NO direction. They are determined to continue shooting themselves in the foot. Ensign, Gibbons.....etc.....
At this point in time the GOP has NO candidate to oppose Reid. Maybe Governor Gibbons will decide to step up. That would be funny.....no, beyond funny.
The last time I looked, Reid's ratings were right around 38%......nothing to write home about, but Harry has had his back to the wall before. Never count out a seasoned politician such as Harry....
In the last poll, 45% of Nevadans said that they would vote for the person running against Reid.
Yep...he will need $50 million if Mr. Nobody is getting 45% of the vote.
SgtRock.....
What poll was that? Got a link? Thanks....
This is the most recent poll.
It has Reid's approval rating at 34%.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/48722002.html
This is the one that says that 45% of Nevadans want to vote for somebody other than Reid.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/45387987.html
Go Harry! He is raising money the honest way.
Ensign will just have his parents pay like they did to his whore.
You better beware of Harry Reid, he and Nancy Pelosi do not care about the people of this country. This Ensign scandal is a cover for the real problems with our country. Obama and the Democrats have taken thousands of jobs from Michigan and today the already high unemployment rate jumped 1.1 percent in June, hitting 15.2 percent. That is Obama's "Change"! Vote the Dems out of office while we still have a few jobs left. Don't be fooled by Ried and his kind who are making millions off their Washington connections.
Reid is working hard to provide all Americans a healthcare system which will help everyone; not just the wealthy.
It is very important to understand that over the past 20 years, insurance costs have outpaced inflation many times over, benefits have been reduced (or eliminated), premiums go up and the bearer of the costs has been the worker and general public--not the business owner!
The wages of Americans are constantly under seige and we are giving back at an alarming rate all the while, the most wealthy among us keep raking in more and more dollars. Without the workers in our country who would be providing the services for the wealthy? Does the wealthy really want the rest of us to live a decent life with respectable incomes or are they seeking something a bit more sinister--a slave society where they call all the shots and the mainstream have no recourse. When the wealthy is done with us, we will be disposed of because we (of course) can't afford healthcare.
No matter what you call it--the middle class and the poor are truly getting screwed by the rich who got used to all the benefits of a ruthless Geo W Bush.
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