And his home town is: Searchlight! Lots of potential for one-liners in both revelations! Hat tip to Drudge.
I report and link. You decide. - J :)
From a KLAS TV .com article, With Senator Reid in Searchlight:
The I-Team Talks With Senator Reid in Searchlight [/] George Knapp, Investigative Reporter [/] Dec 1, 2006 02:24 PM
In his first interview since returning to Nevada, Reid invited the I-Team's George Knapp to his home in Searchlight to talk about the future. [/] Nevada U.S. Senator Harry Reid will become the majority leader of the U.S. Senate when the new Congress convenes in January. It is the highest political position ever attained by a Nevadan.
Reid will have his hands full with national issues but knows he needs to take care of business here at home as well. In his first interview since returning to Nevada, Reid invited the I-Team's George Knapp to his home in Searchlight to talk about the future.
You can learn plenty about a person by walking around in their home. [/] Sen Harry Reid said, "Here, I'll show you the bathroom. This is my prized possession, a signed poster of the Grateful Dead." Harry Reid, a deadhead? Can it be true? [/] For security reasons, the I-Team cannot show the outside of Reid's home in the small mining town of Searchlight, but we got quite a tour of the inside -- the collection of Searchlight butterflies, the late Denny Dent's two-fisted art attack version of Martin Luther King Dent, likenesses of young Harry from high school days, and an amazing discovery from his high school yearbook where Reid was voted most humorous. [/] Sen. Harry Reid said, "Here it is, most humorous, right next to the most attractive."
It's doubtful Republican leaders find much to laugh about in Reid's ascension to the heights of political power. He has vowed to put Washington on a much more even keel, to hold hearings into such controversies as warrantless surveillance and the use of torture, and hope that the president keeps his promise to strive for bipartisan accord. The time for ideological purity, [[code for patriotic and moral purity, perhaps?!?]] he says, is over.
"We have to govern the way we did [[Wilson, F.D.R. and L.B.J. come to mind]] for a couple hundred years, not on the basis of ideology, but to get things done. [[By BIG government, that is.]] Think, it's been ten years since we've had a raise in the minimum wage. [[And more jobs have been available for those who need them most.]] That's scary. Forty-seven million Americans don't have health insurance. [[So the taxpayer must pay more to support trial lawyers and the medical bureaucracies.]] We have someone trying to destroy social security," [[If we knew in the thirties what we know now, it would have never been started"]] Reid said.
Thursday morning, Reid took a call at home from Bill Clinton. As we had coffee at the Searchlight Nugget, he got a call from New York Senator Charles Schumer. [/] It's a heady time for Harry Reid, but he knows that he's now a lightning rod for Republicans and if he hopes to be reelected in four years, he needs to get things done for Nevada, to bring home the bacon without making it look like pork. One of those priorities is the Nevada Test Site.
Reid says he will be in a much stronger position to get compensation for hundreds of Test Site workers now dying of cancer and other diseases. And while he is not able to kill the Yucca Mountain Project outright, he says he can at least keep it from be fast-tracked. He wants to try and secure water resources including a bigger share of Colorado River water, and get money to help Southern Nevada's infrastructure keep up with our relentless growth. [/] His public lands bills have already brought tens of millions of dollars to the state for parks and preservation. He knows there are tough battles ahead on the national stage, and that if he wants to stay there, he needs to listen to the little folks back home.
Sen. Harry Reid said, "I am who I am and will do the best I can. It's a new title, but I'm still the same person." [/] Reid will be sworn in as majority leader on January 4th. [/] Email your comments to Investigative Reporter George Knapp. [My ellipses and emphasis and Coulter-like comments.]
