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   From: senator_reid@reid.senate.gov   
      
   Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has apologized for making   
   racially insensitive jokes at an event Thursday sponsored by the   
   Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce, but perhaps too late for   
   group members who later didn’t endorse Reid’s pick for Nevada   
   lieutenant governor.   
      
   The chamber endorsed Republican Mark Hutchison, not the Nevada   
   Democratic senator’s pick, Lucy Flores, according to The Las   
   Vegas Review Journal.   
      
   Reid said at the event: "I don't think you're smarter than   
   anybody else, but you've convinced a lot of us you are."   
      
   And he concluded his remarks by saying: "One problem that I’ve   
   had today is keeping my Wongs straight."   
      
   Reid reportedly left the luncheon after his speech and missed   
   the formal endorsement announcements. The chamber said Flores   
   said he would attend but failed to show.   
      
   "My comments were in extremely poor taste and I apologize," Reid   
   told Politico on Friday. "Sometimes I say the wrong thing."   
      
   Hutchinson also has the backing of Republican Gov. Brian   
   Sandoval.   
      
   Asians are the fastest-growing minority group in Nevada, which   
   means their endorsement could help Hutchinson in the close race.   
      
   “I think this is a very important endorsement,” Hutchison told   
   the newspaper.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/23/reid-apologizes-for-   
   remarks-at-asian-business-group-event-but-loses-   
   endorsement/?intcmp=obinsite   
      
         
      
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