A government watchdog has accused Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid of “violating Senate ethics rules and federal law by announcing his 2016 re-election campaign on government property.” The Washington Examiner,
“Senator Reid’s actions appear to make a mockery of both the Senate Ethics Rules and federal law,” said the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust Executive Director Matthew Whitaker in a letter to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. “Although Senator Reid has served in the Senate since 1987, he appears to have blatantly violated these basic and longstanding Senate ethics rules.” …
Those rules prohibit the use of “Senate space, equipment, staff time and resources” for assisting a political campaign, Whitaker said, noting that the committee’s website includes in red letters the warning, “No Campaign Activity In Federal Buildings.”
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