Posted on 11/25/2012 1:30:31 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada legislative panel has decided it's high time to repeal a state law that allows job discrimination against communists.
The 12-member Legislative Commission unanimously decided this week to introduce a bill at the 2013 session that would repeal a law that was passed in 1951 during the anti-communist fervor of the Cold War.
The law allows employers to reject job applications from communists and their sympathizers, and to fire any communists in their workforce. ....
Legislative staffers told the Las Vegas Review-Journal The law was passed during an era of renewed fears that Communists were infiltrating all walks of American life, concerns that gained the national stage with hearings conducted by U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. Thousands of Americans, including entertainers, teachers, union activists and government employees, were scrutinized and often accused of being Communists or sympathizers.
At the time, Nevada politics was dominated by anti-communist U.S. Sen. Patrick McCarran, D-Nev., who secured passage by Congress of a bill creating the federal Subversive Activities Control Board.
The law required the registration of communist-front organizations with the U.S. attorney general, and paved the way for states to approve their own anti-communist laws. Congress later abolished the board.
No Nevada lawmakers who voted on the 61-year-old state law are alive today.
"How could they do it?" asked former U.S. Rep. Barbara Vucanovich, R-Nev. "I am amazed we had this law."
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
Lord help us she is the spitting image of a democrat!
And there’s an “R” by her name, too.
Also, there was virtually no home-grown incarnation of this stuff. It was seen as the toxic foreign import it was.
Some Republicans need to get a better sense of history.
would you hit it?
Any political party that takes the slogan “FORWARD,” without also specifying forward to just what, will be banned.
Yes and the R next to her name makes everything okay for some. lol
The old cow needs to be run out of town on a rail.
“...The law allows employers to reject job applications from communists and their sympathizers, and to fire any communists in their workforce.”
I see nothing wrong with this Law. Too bad we don’t have a National Law like, If we did it would then be Bye-Bye Obommer and his crowd of thugs.
Self-ping. Thanks Tailgunner Joe.
I guess my ‘Kill a Commie for Mommy” T shirt would not go over well. I got it from a Black Hawk pilot I used to fly with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Vucanovich
She should know- she was 30 years old at the time....
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