A deal in the desert for Sen. Reid?

[Terri]

By Chuck Neubauer and Tom Hamburger
LA Times

BULLHEAD CITY, ARIZ. — It's hard to buy undeveloped land in booming northern Arizona for $166 an acre. But now-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid effectively did just that when a longtime friend decided to sell property owned by the employee pension fund that he controlled.

In 2002, Reid (D-Nev.) paid $10,000 to a pension fund controlled by Clair Haycock, a Las Vegas lubricants distributor and his friend for 50 years. The payment gave the senator full control of a 160-acre parcel in Bullhead City that Reid and the pension fund had jointly owned. Reid's price for the equivalent of 60 acres of undeveloped desert was less than one-tenth of the value the assessor placed on it at the time.

Six months after the deal closed, Reid introduced legislation to address the plight of lubricants dealers who had their supplies disrupted by the decisions of big oil companies. It was an issue the Haycock family had brought to Reid's attention in 1994, according to a source familiar with the events.

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[Amawalk John]

That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

Hey GOP! Let's run with this! Where's the special prosecutor? Where are the GOP senators in front of the cameras demanding Reid resign, demanding hearings!!! Turnabout is fair play!

....and the nice thing is that when Reid resigns or does the perp walk, the current governor of Nevada -- who appoints someone to serve out Dingy's term --James Gibbons is a Republican.

[qrayjack]

Boy oh boy the mainstream media is all over this, huh! Wow, listen to the uproar: .............

[RMPLV]

Reid will walk again, as he did over his land deals in NV. It's okay to be a criminal, if your a Democrat.

[Charie]

Never fear! I'm sure this will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law the way Sandy Burglar's theft of secrets documents from the National Archives was.