That is very interesting. Thanks Jerry, I look forward to a follow up. Cheers, Judah
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > A former campaign manager, Donald Williams, for Senator Reid made some > controversial statements about Senator's Reid. In order to back these > statements, Mr. Williams sat for a polygraph test and released the results > for public consumption. The test was performed by James Hannah, of the firm > Eye Agency Investigations. Mr. Hannah stated that Mr. Williams was being > truthful when answer the questions that were administered. > > So here's the comments: > > Williams claimed that on two occasions he delivered to Reid at least $10,000 > in cash from Mustang Ranch owner Joe Conforte as early as 1970, during > Reids lieutenant governor campaign. The lie detection test, dated May 30, > confirms the veracity of Williams statements that Reid built part of his > campaign war chest with his ties to Conforte. > > The Reid-Conforte relationship began when Reid asked his campaign manager to > meet the brothel owner, Williams said. The Mustang Ranch operator was known > in political circles as a tracker of Nevadas races and generous donor. > > Reid implored me to take this meeting because he did not want to be spotted > huddling with Conforte. I agreed, Williams said. > > The men discussed politics at a restaurant, until Conforte cut the meeting > short and asked Williams to step outside. Conforte opened his cars trunk to > reveal a pile of absentee ballots. Each was marked for Reid, he told > Williams. The brothel owner then directed the campaign manager to deliver a > thick envelope to the politician. > > I gave it to Reid the next day, Williams said this week. He opened it in > front of me. It was full of hundred-dollar bills. > > Reid won the election. > No law prohibited Conforte from contributing to Reid, as long as he pledged > the money toward his statewide office campaign and reported the amount. But > Reid did neither, Williams said, when the young Democrat from Searchlight > abandoned his gubernatorial race to run for U.S. Senate four years > later. Reid spent the money on his federal office run in 1974, according to > his former manager. > > Reid pledged none of the funds would be co-mingled, Williams said. Reid > lied. > > Williams recalled when a panicked Reid phoned him and requested he meet with > the brothel owner again. The evening ended with Williams helping > Conforte count $10,000 in his double-wide trailer at the Mustang Ranch. > Conforte had earmarked every dollar for Reid. > > > The full article is here: > http://yourpoliticsnews.com/2010/08/18/exclusive-pimp-paid-for-first-harry-reid-campaign-former-manager-says-takes-lie-detector-to-prove-claims/ > > It contains some more background info, links to pdf's of the lie detector > test, and some political commentary. > > Unfortunately, it does not say why Mr. Williams is now coming forward with > the information or have any comments from Senator Reid. There are some > other entries at the site about the same story and as time permits, I may > check them out. > > Also, I don't know anything about the site. First time I have ever visited > it. I just posted the link and info since I found it interesting and > thought others would too. > > Enjoy. > > > > > > > > > > J > > - > > Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms those entrusted with > power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny - > Thomas Jefferson o > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325635 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
