That's pretty funny, but you're posting that as the joke it is and not actually implying Harry Reid said/wrote this...right?
I'm not 100% sure the story is true but it goes this way:
Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California, was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that she shared a common ancestor with Senator Harry Reid -- one Remus Reid, a great-great uncle of Harry Reid.
The only photograph of Remus that Ms. Wallman was able to locate shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory. (does that picture show up for you in my post above?)
On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription: 'Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.'
So, Ms. Wallman recently e-mailed Senator Reid for information about their common ancestor.
Believe it or not, Harry Reid's staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:
'Remus Reid was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory. His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed.'
Whether it's true or whether it's a joke, that's pretty funny.
It's reminiscent of the Abramoff case, everyone except
Harry Reid got rid of the Abramoff money like it was contaminated with leprosy but Harry, who took more money than anyone else and who had written at least two letters on Abramoff's behalf, kept his money and claimed he had done nothing wrong.
I guess he had already lost it at the gambling tables.
In the movie 'Casino', Tommy Smothers played the part of Harry Reid. That movie was very true to life in most of it's storyline, the house in the movie that Robert De Niro lived in was the actual house of the character he played in the movie and there are many more real life similarities. I once met the character played by Don Rickles.
I still say Abramoff was taken down because he made a movie about communist activity in Africa that had to do with their seizure of power for the sake of the control of certain diamond mines, Hollywood made another version, I think they called it "blood diamonds."
(or something like that, needless to say they made the good guys look bad and the bad guys look good.)
Here goes fifty five million of the bailout money.
Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader and a Nevadan, said that he supported the idea of the Mob Museum but insisted that it would not be funded with stimulus money. The stimulus plan will have no earmarks in it, there will be none, he said.
(Yeah right and he said he wouldn't seat the senate nominee for Illinois but we know how that worked out.)
The proposed site of the museum is where Senator Estes Kefauver arrived in 1950 for a hearing about the Mobs alleged control of Sin City. The hearing lasted only a day and was considered by many to be a publicity stunt.
The mayor of Las Vegas.
(someone remarked; "five outstanding boobs.")
