File this under Cash is King.
Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who’s been a lightning rod for Republicans, showed up at the high-haired boxing promoter’s Manalapan digs recently with his hand out.
King welcomed him with honors: five barbecue pits and open bars fueled the party, held in the shadow of King’s private Statue of Liberty.
About 120 of King’s acquaintances attended, and most donated between $1,000 and the legal maximum of $4,800 for Reid’s reelection war chest. But while King wanted to release pictures of the posh wingding, King spokesman Robert Weneck tells me Reid put the kibosh on it.
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Agreed that Don King is one of the most colorful American sports characters ever. Is Reid that worried about his coming campaign that he has sneak around the country gladhanding on the sly?
Particular at the home of a very big supporter of Dubya?
KING; I love George Walker Bush because I think he's a revolutionary. He's a president that comes in with conclusiveness. What they're doing in tomorrow in Iraq is a demonstration of that for the vote for democracy. The fundamental process of democracy is freedom of speech, law and order, being able to have freedom, working with people and working and governing yourselves. George Bush is that. He included in...
BLITZER: Do you have any regrets supporting him? Take a look at that picture when you and I were there at the diner last year. Do you have any regrets supporting him as enthusiastically as you did?
KING: No, I don't. In fact, I want to support him more now because it seems like everybody is punching him. You know what I mean? But he's fighting back, and he's throwing great combinations. And I think he's the guy that is really a revolutionary president.
I think he's a president that cares about the people he represents, but doesn't compromise himself to the extent that he acquiesce and accommodate. He goes out there and says like it is, and tries to make things better. Inclusiveness, education, is fighting for that.
These are the things that many guys that don't fight for -- George Walker Bush is a tremendous advocate to America, a great president for the great American people, and he's decisive. He's doesn't equivocate.
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Or his Harry just flexing his bi-partisan muscle? King's spokesman's take:
Said Weneck: “I don’t think Don’s past (which includes, by the way, two long ago killings and allegations of racketeering and mishandling his boxers’ cash) had anything to do with it. Don and the senator have been friends for ever. It’s probably more because Republican donors were there and they may not want people to know.”
Or has King changed his outlook on America since Barack Obama became the first black President?
From King's website:
Feel the power. Change is in the air. Change is America's destiny. All Americans, friend and foe alike, agree unanimously that we need change. The kind of change that we can believe in. Barack Obama represents that change.
but then he continues:
I'm for whoever is best for the American people. Four years ago, I urged you to vote for George W. Bush. Why? Because I believe George Walker is a revolutionary, pioneer and trailblazer who loves America and the American people.
We have had 43 great Presidents in our great United States of America; however, history tells us that God gives values. There is a value system that cannot be compromised. These aren't United States-created values. These are God-given values. They are inalienable rights, these values of freedom. George Walker Bush illustrated and implemented these values like no other President who served before him.
President Bush not only talked the talk, but he walked the walk in the field of inclusion of inclusion of black people and diversity. He dared to make America be her, by making America one, inclusive of African Americans who had heretofore been left out.
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I wonder if Tyson ever smacked King upside the head and loosened a few screws.
I'm also thinking the Senate Majority Leader should find some fundraising help from people a bit less controversial, you never know when a rogue paparazzi will be around to snap a pic..