Reid: Cassidy should apologize for ‘plantation’ remark

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) demanded an apology from Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) for claiming he runs the Senate like a “plantation.”

{mosads}Reid compared Cassidy to Donald Sterling, the former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, who was forced by the National Basketball Association to sell his team after he was recorded making racist remarks.

“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,” Reid told reporters Tuesday.

“Has he been taking lessons from Donald Sterling, where did he get this?” he added.

Cassidy, who is challenging Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), told the executive director of the Port of Terrebone that Reid “runs the Senate like a plantation.” Robin Bravender of E&E Daily broke the story. 

Republicans have noted that in 2006 then-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) made similar remarks when she said the House had been “run like a plantation” by the GOP.