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As you have, probably, heard Harry Reid's popularity has gone down the tubes in Nevada.  In the past I have voted for him, no more.

The Las Vegas Review Journal has been critical of his Obama worship and a recent LVRJ poll shows dismal poll numbers.  I could run against him and win if the election were held today. 


http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/56171937.html
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On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber's board members for a meet-'n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal's director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal.

Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: "I hope you go out of business."

Later, in his public speech, Reid said he wanted to let everyone know that he wants the Review-Journal to continue selling advertising because the Las Vegas Sun is delivered inside the Review-Journal.

Such behavior cannot go unchallenged.

You could call Reid's remark ugly and be right. It certainly was boorish. Asinine? That goes without saying.

But to fully capture the magnitude of Reid's remark (and to stop him from doing the same thing to others) it must be called what it was -- a full-on threat perpetrated by a bully who has forgotten that he was elected to office to protect Nevadans, not sound like he's shaking them down.

No citizen should expect this kind of behavior from a U.S. senator. It is certainly not becoming of a man who is the majority leader in the U.S. Senate. And it absolutely is not what anyone would expect from a man who now asks Nevadans to send him back to the Senate for a fifth term.

If he thinks he can push the state's largest newspaper around by exacting some kind of economic punishment in retaliation for not seeing eye to eye with him on matters of politics, I can only imagine how he pressures businesses and individuals who don't have the wherewithal of the Review-Journal.

For the sake of all who live and work in Nevada, we can't let this bully behavior pass without calling out Sen. Reid. If he'll try it with the Review-Journal, you can bet that he's tried it with others. So today, we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy tactic will not be tolerated.

We won't allow you to bully us. And if you try it with anyone else, count on going through us first.

That's a promise, not a threat.

And it's a promise to our readers, not to you, Sen. Reid.  [/QUOTE]

http://www.lvrj.com/news/55332617.html

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Reid hit, feted at business luncheon

Protesters rally outside Chamber of Commerce meeting

Other highlights from Reid's speech included the revelation that Reid will give bipartisanship a two-week trial period when the Senate reconvenes in early September to discuss health care reform. If Republicans still aren't on board by mid- to late September, Reid said he'll be ready to deploy reconciliation, which would allow passage of a bill with a 51-vote majority rather than a 60-vote, filibuster-proof bloc.

Reconciliation would allow reform to pass even if all 40 Senate Republicans and a handful of conservative Democrats oppose it.
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hmm, I don't seem to know how to quote things on this forum.