Well, ol' Whiney Harry has done it again.... revealed exactly how out of touch he is with his home state and just how big of a worthless Washingtonian he's become.
Seems a local Vegas reporter asked him a question... not a real tough, hardball-type question, but a relative softball that even someone with the lax principles of the Senate Majority Whiner should have been able to answer easily.
'Cept he couldn't.
When a reporter from KLAS-TV in Las Vegas told Reid a 2009 Pew Hispanic Center report found 17 percent of the nation’s construction workers were undocumented, the Nevada Democrat replied: “That may be some place, but it’s not here in Nevada.”
Whiney Harry's comments downplayed the number of illegal immigrants working construction jobs in Nevada, even though a recent study found that his home state had the largest percentage of undocumented workers in the country.
Not that Ol Harry would know... or care.
Reid was also asked why he blocked an amendment introduced last year by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) that would have required all construction firms working on economic stimulus projects to use E-Verify, the federal online system that allows employers to check whether someone is eligible to work in the country.
“That’s the reason we need to do comprehensive immigration reform,” Reid said. “We cannot do it piecemeal.”
Whiney Harry's office has since said that he supports E-Verify and has worked to ensure the program does not expire.
But Reid believes the current system is flawed because it sometimes penalizes American workers and can be susceptible to identity fraud.
He'd rather do nothing than do something that might not be perfect, especially when Dems appear to believe that all illegals vote as a bloc without any independent thought.
"Improving our employment verification system is only a partial solution, however, to the exploitation of illegal labor and the undercutting of American wages,” Reid said in a statement.
“Our broken immigration system can be fixed only through comprehensive immigration reform.”
Well, if that's what you want to be on record as saying, Harry, that's fine with me.
Because it shows you for what you really are: A Washington insider who puts party politics ahead of the interests of his own state, his own constituents, and his own state's regional security and economic viability.
And, it shows just how out of touch you've become... or maybe always were.
After all, Searchlight isn't exactly a mecca of mainstream thinking even within the state.
Nope.
If Whiney Harry had bothered to check with his electorate, he would know that if there are no illegals working construction in Nevada, it's because there isn't anyone working construction in Nevada thanks to the O-man's tragically flawed economic recovery plan and the mess that is Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, courtesy of the Democrat Congress.
If it wouldn't be so bad for the country, it would almost be worth it for Nevadans to re-elect Ol Harry, just to keep him the hell out of our state.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” ---- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked” ---- Voltaire
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