Reid Demands Apology from GOP Candidate for Senate ‘Plantation’ Remark

Louisiana Republican and Senate candidate Bill Cassidy took a shot at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and said he runs the Senate like a “plantation.” Well, now Reid wants an apology for that comment.

Cassidy said earlier today that “instead of the world’s greatest deliberative body, it is his personal, sort of, ‘It goes if I say it does, if not it stops.'”

In comments to reporters, Reid was amazed that Cassidy would make such a comment. He said, “With all the things going on in America today, that’s fairly insensitive. That’s really insensitive, very insensitive. If there were ever a statement that deserved an apology, this is it big time.”

And he even went a step further, suggesting Cassidy’s been “taking lessons from Donald Sterling.”

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