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Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 | 9:17 a.m.
WASHINGTON -- The Louisiana senator who secured a $100 million bonus in Medicaid payments for her state in the proposed Senate health care bill will host a fundraiser for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid next month in New Orleans, the Times-Picayune is reporting this morning.
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office told the paper the event was planned "several weeks ago."
Landrieu is one of three Democratic senators who have not yet committed to voting to advance Reid's health care bill during Saturday's pivotal vote.
A provision in the bill that Reid unveiled this week includes a $100 million bump in Medicaid payments for the hurricane-damaged state that goes beyond the 100 percent funding for Medicaid expansion Reid secured for Nevada and the other states.
Landrieu and political consultant James Carville will host the Dec. 12 brunch at a private home, the Times-Picayune reported.
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and reid is supposedly representing nevada????
when???? looks like he needs to move to louisiana....
How is he representing us again???? This is clearly payback for the $100,000,000 he gave her state to buy her vote! We must vote these traitors out of office. Oops I hope the liberal sun doesn't censor me.
Oh, puh-leese. If this were Johnny Casino and David "Diaper" Vitter (remember when Johnny ran the NRSC? When did The R-J call him a "traitor"?), the GOoPers wouldn't be saying anything about it. The Republicans are just being hypocrites here. They like their big fundraisers, but the hate it when Democrats are better at it.
i am a registered democrat, reid is not representing our state...
Poor harry. He doesn't even see what's wrong with buying a vote with One Hundred Million of our dollars and then stopping by to pick up a percentage as a thank you.
Yeah, right, Sun.
Maybe some are naive enough to buy Tim Richardson's explanation in the second comment, but not me. The Sun is in the tank for Reid, and you were ordered by Brian Greenspin to disable the comments on Reid stories during a crucial period of the health-care takeover debate. Now that the bill is safely written, you suddenly end the "cooling-off period"?
Anyone else buying this?
This is so very sad. Her vote on health care has been bought with $100 MILLION DOLLARS of taxpayers money for her to vote against her conscience. Then as a thank you a fund raiser for the one who gave her this BRIBE.
We were promised change, too bad it's been for the worse.
Go Harry Go!! Keep up the good work!
The trash keeps floating to New Orleans,. Reid and Landrue, two peas in a pod.....and to think these two are concerned about the tax payers. Wake up voters and elect someone with sense, not $$$$$, Cents........in mind.