Seems to be continuing unabated.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing.
Reid took the free seats for Las Vegas fights between 2003 and 2005 as he was pressing legislation to increase government oversight of the sport, including the creation of a federal boxing commission that Nevada's agency feared might usurp its authority.
Hmm. So Reid has taken money from Vegas and Abramoff - makes him two for two. He's such a political whore, he'd fit right in on campus here.
On March 8, a host of Bucknell offices and organizations including the Bucknell Feminist Majority, Women’s and Gender Studies Department, Center for Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, and Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Awareness spent $1,920 to bring a “celebration of whore culture” to campus.
But then, DC is the expert on Democrat corruption.
Doesn't Reid represent the state of Nevada, and weren't the tickets from the regulating body? Didn't he continue to work on legislation that worked against the boxing commission?
I guess I'm having a hard time understanding where the corruption is here. Is taking money a form of corruption, or is it the actions taken due to the acceptance of money (or, in this case tickets to boxing matches in his home state) the corrupt act? I think it's the latter and imagine you do too. If that's the case, where is the corruption here?
Posted by: Ed Kohler | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 11:58 AM
so whats bucknell has to do with corruption whoring?
Posted by: mylena | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 12:28 PM
Doesn't Reid represent the state of Nevada, and weren't the tickets from the regulating body?
Reid holds a Federal Office, not a State Office. Also, if you do the math, it isn't hard to figure out who owns the State governing body both on boxing and gambling. The proposed legislation would run contrary to the position advocated by the State, which is nothing more than another lobbying body at that point.
It's generally accepted that the Fed Government would act independently of any one lobby's influence, so in effect they could be seen as buying influence. If not, McCain wouldn't have insisted on paying his own way. I doubt he did that out of the goodness of his heart.
If the goal is to take corruption out of boxing, you don't start by taking gifts from a suspect arm of a state government with a pre-determined point of view.
Posted by: Dan | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 12:38 PM
Bucknell was just added for fun. How else was I to work the word "whore" into a political post? ; )
Posted by: Dan | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 12:39 PM
I see:)and I thought it was such a clean university:P~~~...hmm
Posted by: mylena | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 01:18 PM
"How else was I to work the word "whore" into a political post? ; )"
Easy, write an autobiography.
Posted by: Withheld for fear or being taken to guatanamo | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 07:35 PM
Easy, write an autobiography.
How right you are, I am! Or should I say that in German? ; )
Posted by: Dan | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 11:11 PM