Reid on Large Campaign Donation to Dems: ‘I Hope That Did Not Corrupt Me’

‘I felt so unclean, for lack of a better word ... so when I ran in 2004, it was like I’d taken a bath, and I felt so clean’

Reid on Large Campaign Donation to Nevada Dems: ‘I Hope That Did Not Corrupt Me’ (CNS News)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he hoped that a 1998 donation to the Democratic Party in Nevada ‘did not corrupt’ him but that the act was “corrupting.”

“It was a bad situation,” Reid said at a Senate Judiciary hearing on Tuesday where he spoke in favor of a constitutional amendment that would give Congress power to regulate federal campaign spending.

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