Dirty Harry once said he likes the Capitol Visitor Center because members don’t have to “smell the tourists” on hot days. I think that sums up how he feels about any peasant not in government even going near him…
Via CNS News:
(CNSNews.com) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did not respond to repeated questions about whether public citizens who ask him a question in the Capitol hallway should be physically barred from doing so by Capitol Police, as happened recently when reporter Jason Mattera introduced himself, shook Reid’s hand, and asked him a question about how he became a millionaire on a government salary.
Through several e-mails and telephone calls, CNSNews.com asked Sen. Reid’s office the following question: “Does Sen. Reid think that Americans should in any way be barred or intimidated from asking questions of members of the Senate walking in public hallways in a Senate office building?”
Reid’s office did not respond.
Back on Sept. 16, a Capitol Hill police officer walking with Reid pushed Mattera into a wall and pushed him around, even though all Mattera did was ask a question, which any U.S. taxpayer is free to do.