Hans A. von Spakovsky: E-mail shows illegal activity in Reid's campaign

From:  The Washington Examiner

Hans A. von Spakovsky: E-mail shows illegal activity in Reid's campaign

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/E-mail-shows-illegal-activity-in-Reid_s-campaign-1458042-106720628.html



Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., may have beaten back challenger Sharron Angle and retained his post as the majority leader, but his campaign and one of his biggest supporters may have violated federal law to do so.


As National Review reported earlier this week, the Reid campaign sent a desperate e-mail to the senior vice president for government relations at Harrah's Casinos asking the company to pressure its employees to get out and vote for Reid. The campaign even offered to have Reid call Harrah's executives to help give "the backing" needed to get the company working on this.

The Reid staffer involved told Harrah's it needed to "put a headlock" on its supervisors "to get them to follow through."

This plea was distributed to senior executives throughout the company by a Harrah's vice president, Marybel Batjer. Batjer demanded that those executives "do whatever we need to do to get the supervisors to know that there is NOTHING more important than to get employees out to vote. Waking up to a defeat of Harry Reid Nov 3rd will be devastating for our industry's future.". . . . .