Now that's what I call political spin

  Paul Ray  

Family researcher Judy Wallman  has discovered that the great-great uncle of America's most powerful Congressman was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889.

Both Judy and Senator Harry Reid share Remus Reid as a common ancestor.  

The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory: On the back of the picture obtained by Judy, from southern California,  during her  probe was this inscription: "Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times.Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889."

So Judy recently e-mailed   Reid for information about their great-great uncle. Believe it or not, the Senate leader's staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:



Now that's how it's done, Folks!