{"id":721974,"date":"2010-04-21T18:48:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T22:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/republicans-blast-reid-for-accepting-goldman-sachs-donations-2\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T18:48:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T22:48:57","slug":"republicans-blast-reid-for-accepting-goldman-sachs%c2%a0donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/721974","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Blast Reid For Accepting Goldman Sachs\u00a0Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Harry%2BReid_1961_19735193_0_0_7050616_300.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Republicans blast Reid for accepting Goldman Sachs donations \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Just a day after criticizing members of the GOP for participating in a closed-door meeting with Wall Street executives, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is in hot water following a report on Tuesday which indicated that he attended a fundraiser earlier this year hosted by the president of Goldman Sachs. <\/p>\n<p>When asked to confirm or deny his attendance at the event, Reid evaded the question and instead read a prepared statement regarding his involvement in financial regulatory reform, <i>MSNBC.com<\/i> reports. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#8217;m leading the effort to rein in Wall Street,&quot; said Reid. &quot;I&#8217;m going to make sure that in this legislation I do everything within my ability to make sure that banks aren&#8217;t too big to fail.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>However, later that day Reid&#8217;s spokesman Jim Manley confirmed that the Nevada senator attended the fundraiser, stating that the $37,000 that was raised was done so in accordance with campaign rules.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the news, National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brian Walsh told NBC that &quot;one can only presume that Senator Reid will be returning these donations immediately.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Manley indicated on Wednesday the congressman plans on keeping the donations. <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19735193-ADNFCR\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a day after criticizing members of the GOP for participating in a closed-door meeting with Wall Street executives, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is in hot water following a report on Tuesday which indicated that he attended a fundraiser earlier this year hosted by the president of Goldman Sachs. When asked to confirm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31OK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}