It seems the ties between Rory Reid and the old Hillary Clinton for president campaign run deep, and are still going strong. Of course, Reid was Clinton’s No. 1 supporter in Nevada, facing off with the impressive Barack Obama campaign that was headed up by high-profile people such as state Sen. Steven Horsford and adman Billy Vassiliadis.
Although Clinton won the state, Obama gained more delegates, so it was pretty much a wash. But after the campaign, Reid’s loyalty was repaid recently with a fundraising visit from former President Bill Clinton.
Things don’t end there, either. We reported earlier this week that a draft Reid Facebook page was created by somebody from Bill Clinton’s home state of Arkansas, and several members of the page hail from that state.
Now we learn that Reid has engaged the services of an eclectic Boston advertising agency made up of veterans of Hillary Clinton’s White House run.
We’re betting Reid is glad he didn’t heed his father — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — when the elder Reid asked his family to remain neutral in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. (Harry Reid wanted to stay out of it because several Democratic senators, including Obama, Clinton, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, were all running for the high office, and he knew he’d have to work with the losers as well as the winners. And, predictably, when Rory Reid endorsed Clinton and took out campaigning for her, it was rumored that this was a Harry Reid endorsement-by-proxy.
It wasm’t that, but apparently, it was good politics, the dividends are now coming due for Reid the Younger.
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