Tom Shields was spreading rumors about Sen. Harry Reid; now his team blames Reid

Earlier this year, a spokesman for Michael Malik and Marian Ilitch, Tom Shield said Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) had changed his previous position opposing a Bay Mills Indian casino proposed for Port Huron, Michigan on the site of the Thomas Edison Inn; 350-miles by car from the tribe's reservation. Reid's office never confirmed rumors being spread at the time by the Malik/Ilitch PR machine.

Now those in the Malik/Ilitch camp are blaming Senator Reid for their failure to get a congressional hearing on their unorthodox schemes for an off-reservation casino. The Malik/Ilitch team has made claims that they had enough votes to pass their proposal in the House Natural Resources Committee (although there's no official confirmation) and that Senator Reid made an appeal to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to have bill H.R. 2176 authorizing the Bay Mills casino scheme pulled from the agenda of a recent Natural Resources Committee hearing.