Posted on 11/20/2014 9:19:56 AM PST by redreno
Nevada Assembly speaker-designate Ira Hansen would be one of the most controversial speakers in Nevada history.
In a surprise, he was named on Nov. 7 by the new Republican majority as their candidate for speaker. If elected in February, he would be the first Washoe speaker since Robert Barengo in 1981 and the first from Sparks since Chet Christiansen in 1961. The GOP members passed over Assembly Republican leader Pat Hickey of Reno to choose Hansen. It was treated as a victory for the more radical wing of the party, which took over the Clark County and state party organizations in 2012, cutting presidential candidate Mitt Romney loose from state GOP support.
While members of the GOP caucus talked about a united front, they selected as speaker a legislator who is one of the most contentious public officials in the state. Hansen doesn’t like blacks, gays, Israel, many Republicans, and most Nevadans—he once wrote that newcomers to the state, who constitute four of every five Nevadans, should accept Nevada as it is or leave.
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If so, Harry Reid left a superhighway. Doesn’t seem to have affected him.
“He agrees with liberals about corporate welfare and threats from redevelopment power.”
No. He does not. Liberals only carp about corporate welfare when the corporations were not contributors to their campaigns. GM, GE, Soylandra, Goldman, the entire US banking system, and many others have been the recipients of hundreds of billions of dollars of corporate welfare from liberals.
Sorry, what’s the problem with him?
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