The Republican Senate candidate in Louisiana said that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid runs the upper chamber “like a plantation.”
During a meeting with a port official in Houma, La., Rep. Bill Cassidy said Reid “runs the Senate like a plantation,” according to a story in E&E News, a trade publication on energy and environment issues.
“So 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,'” he said.
At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Reid condemned the remarks.
“With all of the things going on in America today, that’s clearly insensitive,” he said. “And if there were ever a statement that deserved an apology, this is it big time. I mean, has he been taking lessons from Donald Sterling? Where’d he get this?”
Cassidy is running against Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu in one of the most competitive Senate races this year. A RealClearPolitics average of polls has Cassidy leading Landrieu by just 1.3 points.
