Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office swiped back Wednesday at the Republican National Committee after it filed an ethics complaint over the Nevada Democrat’s use of his website and Twitter account to attack the billionaire Koch brothers.
Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Reid, dismissed the complaint as “meritless.”
“Republicans’ blind obedience to the shadowy billionaire Koch brothers is on full display today,” Jentleson said in an email. “Nothing says ‘Republicans are the party of the top one percent’ like lashing out with meritless complaints as a screen to defend the Koch brothers as they rig the system to benefit billionaires like themselves. Senator Reid will continue to do everything in his power to hold the Koch brothers and their Republican enablers accountable for trying to tilt the playing field in favor of the wealthy and against the middle class.”
Appearing Wednesday morning on Fox News, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus called Reid “so dirty and so unethical” for using taxpayer-funded online media to repeatedly attack the oil tycoons, who are spending millions of dollars to defeat Democratic senators in the November elections.
The complaint called on Senate Ethics Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Vice Chair Johnny Isakson (R-GA) to “investigate Senator Reid’s misuse of taxpayer resources and sanction him appropriately.”
Weeks ago when Reid began this offensive, I thought it would gain minor traction in the liberal press and blogsphere. Damn I was wrong!
Well done Mr. Majority Leader. And the DNC need not have paid a dime for all of the free pub.
Since twitter is obviously free of charge to use. It seems that Reince “Worse than Mike Steele” Preibus is implying that someone on Reid’s staff - who are paid with tax dollars - wrote the ‘partisan’ tweets.
Perhaps Reince would like the ethics committee to scrutinize Rand Paul’s partisan tweets, for example. How about Calgary Ted? Maybe his tweets should be examined by the ethics committee too. What about OrangeMan Boehner? Eric Cantor? Should I go on, Reincy?
umm, isn’t Twitter a private company? The GOP is truly flailing for issues. Look at the nonsensical ‘impeachment’ of Gov. Nixon in Mo. I don’t know what it is thinking, they are making such fools of themselves.
Whats even funnier is that the RNC accepted tax-payer money for the last Republican Convention. Clearly THAT was a partisan event. Maybe Reince will call for an ethics probe on the GOP lawmakers who participated in that "so dirty and unethical’ event.
“so dirty and so unethical”: Rinse, you obviously never ever look in the mirror or at the low-life thugs who populate your party’s higher echelons. Issa? Foul scum. Ryan? Cold-hearted petty race-baiter. Gohmert? Bachmann? Something that the dog did that you stepped in.