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Sen. Reid says boxing matches part of his official duties
 Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says it's his official duty to attend boxing matches in Nevada and that he did nothing wrong when he accepted complimentary ringside seats from a state agency that was lobbying him. Reid says he would have been criticized for not going to the fight because he has an obligation to make sure the sport kept clean. The Nevada Democrat was responding to an Associated Press story that detailed how the senator had accepted free tickets possibly valued at several thousand dollars from the Nevada Athletic Commission -- the agency that regulates boxing in the state. At the time, the agency was lobbying Reid to drop his support for the creation of a federal boxing commission that could have undermined the powerful Nevada agency's authority. Posted by: Fred 2006-06-01 |
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