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AP Photo/Harry Hamburg
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaks during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 11, 2010. On Monday, he called on Republicans opponents to denounce a television ad as “sleaze.”
Monday, March 15, 2010 | 1:06 p.m.
Ad Against Harry Reid
Sun Coverage
WASHINGTON -- The brains behind the "Willie Horton" ads that helped to derail Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign teamed up with an advocate of the "birther" movement to announce the first in a series of new TV ads against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's re-election.
Republican strategist Floyd Brown is in Las Vegas today to unveil the new ad he produced for two conservative political action committees, the Republican Majority Campaign and The Legacy PAC, as first reported today by Mother Jones. Republican Majority Campaign chairman Gary Kreep is an advocate of the debunked "birther" theory, which incorrectly claims that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
The ad begins running today on KTNV in Las Vegas.
Reid's campaign called on his Republicans opponents to denounce the ad as "sleaze."
The ad attempts to link Reid's support of MGM's CityCenter project to MGM Mirage's Dubai business partner, Sheik Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, which the ad claims used "slave labor" to construct buildings in Dubai.
Reid has won backing for his re-election from MGM Mirage Chairman Jim Murren, who appeared in one of Reid's own TV ads praising the senator's leadership in helping the company to complete construction of the massive CityCenter project on the Strip. MGM is the state's largest private employer.
CityCenter has brought 12,000 jobs to economically distressed Las Vegas since its opening late last year. Las Vegas' unemployment rate is above 13 percent.
“If these guys knew anything about Nevada they would realize how outrageous it is for them to run ads regarding the state's largest employer at a time when Nevada is suffering such high unemployment," said Reid campaign manager Brandon Hall.
"I have no doubts that the 12,000 people who are now working at City Center, and the 10,000 construction workers who helped build it, are glad they had the majority leader in their corner helping to protect their jobs," Hall said. “After making such outrageous charges against Sen. Reid and MGM Mirage CEO Jim Murren, it’s no wonder that Republicans and conservatives throughout the country have repeatedly repudiated these ad makers’ shameful campaign tactics."
Typical conservative republican tactics. They dont have anything meaningful to contribute exccept hate and lies. Its very sad when your party is represented by the likes of Glen Beck, Rush "Drug Addict" Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. The political environment is so filled with hate.
vc, nice going, I guess Republicans don't exclusively deal in hate.
Wasn't that you at the Bush love-fest?
This Swift-Boat Attack-Ad crap works.
Otherwise, we'd never have had that idiot in the White House for 8 years.
We, the People, need to put an end to this kind of
tabloid-attack-and-innuendo via the 30-second sound-bite delivered in your "24-Hour News cycle NONSENSE that seems to sway the Fox News/Tea Party set to vote against their own best interests. (That was a long sentence, I know!)
Otherwise, we allow a small group of well-heeled but evil-intentioned NutJobs to decide our elections for us.
Is that what we want???
Read about yet another example of how Sue Lowden is willing to say anything--even lie, about her record.
http://www.harryreid.com/ee/index.php/ne...
"helping the company to complete construction of the massive City Center project on the Strip"
No no, the ad said that Reid made some phone calls and SAVED City Center which of course is at least a large exaggeration if not total B.S.
The Sun should identify this as an Editorial because it's so slanted.
Has Harry promised to bail out City Center?
Swift-Boat Attack ads worked because it was true against "I was for ther war before I was against it" Kerry. Imagine John Edwards being a heartbeat away? Too funny.
Not really much difference between birthers and earthers either.
The version of this ad I saw contained a factual inaccuracy. It said something about who paid for a gambling licensing investigation and then said, "You did"-- referring to the watching audience members. In fact, license applicants pay for the investigations of themselves.
If you believe everything you read, don't read
So it's OK to use slave labor in Dubai as long as you hire union workers in Las Vegas. Now I see.
Anyone would be better than the detestable Harry Reid. Good-bye Harry.
Sorry Harry, it's all they've got.
Harry Reid is an embarassment to Nevada. To try to refute the ad by pointing to some associate of the sponsor of the ad is pretty lame. I guess if it's true, the best reply to is to divert attention...
The Sun might want to verify the actual number of jobs created by CityCenter. They also might want to check the number of layoffs that have already taken place. The 10,000 jobs to build the project are lost forever. Please, let's rid ourselves of Reid and all of his big gov crap.
Harry Reid is going BACK to Searchlight!!!
No Tom, MGM is Harry's biggest single campaign contributor. VC, are you saying that William Jefferson, Jim Trafficant, Erik Massa and Dan Rostenkowski are all cherubic angels of the Democratic party? It's ok for Democrats to have "tickle parties" but the GOP must stalwartly attend to business.
Memory loss is such a terrible thing.
Hey Harry,
Maybe when you stop lying about all the good things you have done for Nevada, the adds will change. I like that guy at Quality Hearing Aids, he tells it like it is.
Wow it's getting sad how ignorant the U.S. population has become. Let's clear this up, the US taxpayers did pay for part of CityCenter since the government did give them money.
Now on to the main point. Can someone please give me an example as to something that Harry Reid has done that is truly in the interest of Southern Nevada?
Read about yet another example of how Sue Lowden is willing to say anything--even lie, about her record....
Is this an admission by the Reid Camp that he also lies to get elected....like that would suprise anyone...
na na na na, hey hey hey, goooddddbbyye...Harry
When they were calling GW Bush every name good old Harry (Sleaze) was no where to be found . Harry(If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen HST(Harry S Truman). Maybe you should attend some Town Hall meetings without Obama!!!!!!1
"The US taxpayers did pay for part of CityCenter since the government did give them money."
Horses**t. CityCenter and MGM did not receive one plugged nickel of federal funds.
The day you see the US government handing out bailout money to casino operators is the day Lake Mead freezes solid.
Can republicans ever run a positive campagn? Do they always have to lie?
I would vote for republican principles if there ever was a republican that would follow them.
I don't even like Harry Reid, but I will vote for him before I support this swiftboating crap the repubs are all about.
If Harry Reid would stop lying other may follow !
We are all blind to what we do not want to see! Unions control much of the work force in Vegas. Which controls Harry! Some day Las Vegans will wake up to awful state we are in and stop being manipulated by unions and politicians. Time to look beyond your paycheck and look at the truth! If you won't do if for yourselves... please do it for your children and our freedom.
Deutsche Bank caused more damage to NV than the Imperial Navy did at Pearl Harbor.
Seems like just the other day Reid was saying Sue was the greatest OSHA violator in the state.
But that was the other side of his face saying that I guess.
For all intents and purposes, the ad is correct.
It really doesn't matter. Most folks already have their minds made up.
As much as do not like Harry Reid, I lived in The UAE for 4 years and there is no slave labor on that project and no unions ether. I think the ads that contain lies should be prosecuted.
There is no reason Reid can't be beat based on his record which is bad enough.
just look at the stupid pathetic ugly lying republicans...
an absolute disgrace...
who the hell would join the stupid pathetic ugly lying republicans these days...
only l-o-s-e-r-s!!!
If ever the people of the United States rise up and fight over passage of Obamacare, Harry Reid must be remembered as the man who sacrificed the dignity of his office for a few pieces of silver. The rules of fair play that have kept the basic integrity of the Republic alive have died with Harry Reid. Reid has slipped in a provision into the health care legislation prohibiting future Congresses from changing any regulations imposed on Americans by the Independent Medicare [note: originally referred to as "medical"] Advisory Boards, which are commonly called the "Death Panels."
Yucaipa Companies, who invested in a firm linked to the same Dubai guy, got stock warrants from MHGC Morgan's Hotel Group, part owner of the Hard Rock. Also Dubai World did have a Piece of Circa De Soleil, which has show at various properties. You probably can link middle Eastern and Chinese investors to about everyone and every company around if you wanted to.
Kevin Bacon of Companies?
Who loaned the Lowdens money to get into the Casino Business.??
Also,Chataeos, or whatever his name is probably has lots of connections to all sorts of Middle Eastern, Chinese and Russian elements.
As I've commented before, it just makes no sense to me how essentially decent (yet misguided) regular people are Republicans when that party has done nothing for you. Nothing. Nada.
Tell me something and answer honestly - are you better off in 2008, 2009 or 2010 than you were in say 1998, 1999, 2000?
Be honest.
The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class is getting squeezed.
I bet the majority will answer, no, I'm worse off today. There's your answer.
Give Obama four years to turn this country around. If you can support eight years of absolute waste and record deficits, I think you can honestly wait it out for four years and see where this go.
We can't get any worse than 2000-2008.
I believe an independent panel consisting of: Jon Ralston, Brian Greenspun and Sheryl Crow, should be formed to give an impartial analysis of this ad's accuracy.
Someone above asked what Harry Reid has done in office to help Nevada. I will mention only two items.
First, some years ago, the Republican party came out for a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. This would have been an economic disaster, almost as big a one as the Republican misrule of the past eight years did so much to create. Reid proposed including in the amendment that Social Security should be immune from being cut. Republicans were against this. Does that tell you ANYTHING?
Second, in 2005, George W. Bush tried to push through the privatization of Social Security. Reid led the Democratic party in blocking it, despite some support even within the party for putting the taxes we have paid into this system out on Wall Street--you know, where the stock market went through the floor and took a bunch of private pension plans with it?
Now, those are a couple of examples. There are many more. They are not directly related to Nevada, though I would be happy to add protecting Red Rock Canyon and Sloan Canyon for those of you who don't want environmental areas to be turned into condo developments and would like to actually enjoy nature. Of course, if you listen to the Republican party, business should be able to do whatever it wants, but individuals should be tightly controlled. So I don't expect to change many minds with this post, but I had to say it.
mred, first the UN and now Cheryl Crow.....your sense of "impartial" is severely damaged and may be irreparable.
I think you listen to too much talk radio.... you certainly know the players.
Is not Reid the king of sleaze?
What trash. The GOP has nothing else to run on but this trash. If this is all they have, Reid will WIN this year. Would we have been better off if CityCenter weren't built? If we didn't get any stimulus funds? If we would have been left to continue falling down the spiral of economic death?
Not only is this Rethuglican ad false, but it's also SO STUPID!
This government takeover is just TOO EXPENSIVE. We are already in debt up to our necks. I don't need to pay the medicare tax on investment income and whatever capital gains I can get (which as a retiree I am living on). Plus god knows what other taxes and insurance premium hikes are in store.
There is NO FREE LUNCH in this stuff.
stgrock;
I would have to give that title to Nevada's other Senator. And he is so very, very deserving.
The next logical link would be to link Reid and MGM with Chinese mafia money being funneled in by HO.
Ensign screwed another man's wife.
Reid is screwing the country.
Ensign is screwing over Nevada.
Reid is helping to bring new jobs to Nevada and foster economic recovery.
I think we know what's best for our state, and we don't need a bunch of carpetbagging teabaggers to come here and pollute our airwaves with a bunch of lies. Btw, I bet even Ensign doesn't appreciate their CityCenter bashing.
Reid is screwing us over.
I believe he thinks he works for himself and for the DailyKos instead of Nevada.
Harry Reid is a no-good back room deal maker and a lier that should be voted OUT! He has done enough damage to America.
You must see this Ray Stevens Obama Care:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEPWjEEe2...
Ah, the same ol' tired GOoP talking points. They can't think up anything new, and they can't seem to defend this lying ad's reckless and baseless attacks against Senator Reid and MGM Mirage, so they resort to the same ol' tired lies.
And btw, they can't even get their facts straight on health care:
http://desertbeacon.blogspot.com/search/...
Or Harry Reid:
http://nvprogressive.blogspot.com/search...
Why am I not surprised?
MGM/Mirage's partnership with Dubai World is a disgrace.
But the ad is just another example of the slimeball tactics that the Republicans are willing to use to dupe the ignorant American electorate.
Give 'em hell, Harry Reid!
I am sick and tired of mudslinging crap ads no matter who is slinging it. I'll vote for whoever is able to resist the urge to take the low road.
Dems and Repubs are both on alert.
Harry Reid being the worst partisan hack in politics today should understand more than most, politics is a blood sport...
Enjoy harry
2008-2012 will be the worst presidency in history...reid, pelosi and obama are nut jobs liars and idiots....
obama said that health care insurance will decrease 3000 percent....u mean they will be paying us to buy insurance....this idiot cannot get his facts straight....liars all!!
vote reid put in 2010......vote titus out in 2010...vote obama out in 2012....
We may be headed toward civil war because of Obama,Pelosi and Reid. They are dividing this country. 68% do not what health care if it is not done over with Repubs. These three can change a country to Socialism at the blink of the eye.
Obama, Pelosi, Reid are rotten to the core! They actually have theirs and to hell with the rest of us, just toss us at the bottom with the rest of the country.
Obama has taken over the auto industry, nationalized credit for student loans, killing the insurance companys.
We are in trouble with Harry Reid and the Dems in office and they will be voted out on their Socialist A@#'s in November!
What's the big deal, it's a tactic gReid uses every day. Which he forgets day to day of course - Convienent.
Also for you full fledged waa waa Progressive Liberal squeakers the Swift Boat Ad was crap. If you knew about American history instead of your beloved Marxism you'd know John Kerry was and is a no good cowardly pro NVA lover. Check out what he went to Paris for and who's views he supported there - Gen. Giap.
Don't forget to ask yourselves how good Nev. is now do to gReids endorsed policies via Dodd, Frank, Waxman, Pillosi, etc.
keo10 would like to see Reid defeated in 2010.
He talks about Civil War. He takes his marching orders from the likes of Glenn Beck and Michael Savage.
OK, calm down! We live in a democracy!
I don't know if you know what that means.
Our country tried the Neo-liberal and Neo-conservative ideology for the last thirty years. It didn't work! the middle-class is almost non-existent.
Working people have lost more money the last thirty years than any time since the Gilded Age.
There has been a concerted effort to shift the tax burden from the Rich to the poor. These policies have been implemented by the Right Wing and the disciples of Milton Friedman.
So Now we have the most lop-sided economy in our history.
So You Gopers Broke It! You Buy It!
The GOP's ideas are bankrupt and have bankrupted the country.
We as Americans may finally wise up to their lying and cheating ways. But maybe not. Maybe We are too Stupid!
Planet Earth calling thinks that politics is a blood sport. Really!!! Did your fingers end up bleeding form the keyboard? We are a nation of laws. There was an election in 2008.
There will be an election this year as well. The GOP has old bankrupt ideas. They may have some kind of short-lived victory this fall.
I have got news for you GOPers and Teabaggers. Ronald Reagan is Dead!
You ideology is also Dead! So get over it!
We live in a multi-cultural world now. The angry white people are not going to be in charge!
We are a nation of laws and we are a democracy.
If the GOP regains the Whitehouse in 2013, then we will cease to be a democracy.
The GOP hates working people, poor people, minorities and women. This is indisputable.
Americans have woken up to this fact.
We true Americans will not vote for the GOP.
So the GOP will have to steal the Presidency, like 2000.
doggystyle: And I've got some news for you, Kennedy, Murtha, and Bwawny Fwranwk are dead also. Oh My Bad, wishful thinking got the best of me.
Oh dear, here we go again with the GOP using the tactic of the big lie. I so do wish people would do their homework and not just listen to the lies and smears from what I consider is not a grand old party. Like or dislike Senator Reid, he is the best we have.Do we really want to have our State representated by a Senator under ethics investigation and a possible junior senator with no understanding of what happens inside the beltway and probably could not find his or her way around the DC Metro System. Not me, I will continue to support Senator Reid.
educatedvoter. "Like or dislike Senator Reid, he is the best we have." OK educated, if that's true, he's the best out of two.
If Reid is the best we can hope for, we're in real trouble. He belongs in prison for his crimes and blatant abuse of the public trust. Please, for the sake of the country, re-educate yourself before you vote again.
It's been proven that Barry H. Obama's birthplace was in Indonesia, a product of a union between a Kenyan Marxist propagandist-professor, and a Kansas farm milk maid, who grew up to be an unconventional "screw the white picket fence type of house" adventurer overseas.
educatedfool: why aren't the Femocrats using the rallying cry, "Remember Teddy Kennedy - He Died For Our Sins."
Considering Harry is the king of sleaze and he wants his opponents to denounce the ad. You're toast, Reid!
PierreNoRegard;
When the Funny Farm closed it's doors and all the Nuts were put out on the streets, what kind of meds did they recommend, and why did you stop?
"It's been proven that Barry H. Obama's birthplace was in Indonesia...."
This is a great example of how the republicans spread lies and misinformation. And some people actually believe this stuff. Whats worse is they reproduce!
It does show the need for education reform in this country. But then they probably don't have the capacity for reasonable thought processes.
I think the good news is that these political slander ads are no longer of much use to those that deploy them. People who vote are much smarter than the creators and purveyors of such ads. In fact when seeing such an ad one can either believe it at face value or get a sense that the ads party is either desperate or has no regard for integrity. The ads can backfire on those who produce them. Even better news is the entertainment value provided for the Daily Show.
It's interesting how election time brings out the best in our politicians. There are very few statesmen left in Washington. They have recently proven this by Bankrupting our country at the expense of future generations, all in the quest of getting re-elected. Does anybody out their care. I say impeach every politician that votes for the health care bill in its present form, we can not afford it.
I get a kick out of the commercial on TV where the Dems are beating up the Reps over using the nuclear option when the Republicans were in power. Our founding fathers were prophets when they wrote the constitution, they must of seen our day,to bad our politicians keep trying to screw it up. Long live Harry Reid, hopefully not as our senator.
REPUBLICANS TRASHED OUR ECONOMY.
THESE CROOKS KILLED THE MIDDLE CLASS IN AMERICA.
WE NEED HARRY REID.
I've been thinking about this whole Dirty Harry thing, even if the great voters in Nevada manage to give the guy the boot to the curb he won't be gone from politics, That #$&^%$ Obama will put Harry in his cabinet somewhere and then he'll work against Nevada out of spite. So we're screwed either way. God I hate politicians.
Desperate republicans will say anything to get
their power.
They failed for 8 years. Who needs them?
Did we lose the Iraqi War yet, Harry? It's been three years now since you declared so.
I get a kick out of the idiot Marxist-Democrats who refuse to accept BHO's overseas birth in Indonesia and indoctrination at the hands of the Tamil Tigers.
You democraps kill me.Listen to what those 4 fools said in 2005,and now there useing the same tactics and its ok?It just go's to show that you were the same people on that special bus when you were a kid,and you need those same programs to help you wipe your a$$!GOD HELP US ALL!!!
What about all the casinos in bed with the Chinese??? in Macao?
I heard this Willie Horton race ad guy on a nut-talk show with a host that takes the word of an admitted mobster over the sheriff, police reports and news media archives when it comes to the attempted bombing of the Reid family station wagon. Now she's cheering on for the failure of City Center. Anything to destroy Reid, even if it means destroying thousands of jobs.
She even concocted a phoney "lost dog in distress story" to try and make her look more like a human being.
Ah yes, the all-important guilt-by-association's-association's-association!
Didn't work at all against Obama, guys, but don't let me stop you from repeating the mistakes of the past.
Nothing to figure, we are ALL slaves. Debt slaves, we work for debt instruments (Federal reserve Notes), i.e shackles.
The problem is most Americans do not fully understand their slave status and thus think these TV ads have some basis in reality.
Democrats killed the economy when they would not drill for oil and gas prices went sky high thereby preventing people from buying cars, homes and killing off the middle class working man's jobs. Then Obama and his czars took of GM and downsized firing CEO's, nationalizing student loans and now Obama care! the Dems., Harry Reid are burying America! Wake up to what the heck is happening. Obama has put us in so much debt in the short time he has been in office, we will never be able to pay back CHINA!
I will concur that the so called Republicans (which drifted away from republican standards to satisfy the left leaning) DID have a part in the economy slide - HOWEVER, if you really want to point the full finger it was and still IS the Democrates that are killing our economy - 2006 they passed the 'Loan to anyone' law and to date they pass the 'Borrow to spend' law...
Heaven help us if the Socialistic standards win cause you that love the government running you're entire life will have no life at all - Ask any Socialistic nation that's flourshing..... Oh yeah there ISN'T ONE!!