By Paul Kane
Washington Post
I guess you can afford to do that when you are exempt from the Nationalized Health care system.
An early review of federal financial disclosure forms reveals some interesting tidbits about the Democratic leaders.
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul, who runs her financial portfolio, invested between $1 million and $5 million into a new professional sports league, the United Football League, in order to become the owner of the California Redwoods, a team based out of San Francisco.
Pelosi made three separate payments to the UFL in April, July and October 2009.
• Nancy Pelosi’s 2008 political memoir, “Know Your Power”, continues to outperform Nevada Sen. Harry Reid’s 2008 book, “The Good Fight”. The Senate majority leader collected no royalties for his book, while last year the House speaker collected $102,161 in royalties for hers.
• On Christmas Eve, after the Senate’s historic 60-40 vote for President Obama’s health-care legislation, Reid could not get a flight home to Nevada. So he turned to Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), who along with her husband owns a private jet. Feinstein flew Reid to San Francisco, at an estimated cost of $3,625, according to Reid’s forms. Aides said that, from San Francisco, Reid flew to Reno, where he met up with his wife and family in time to celebrate Christmas.
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