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Prominent GOP donor, billionaire businessman accused of repeatedly making racist, sexist remarks
Nevada Current ^ | 07/23/2024 | April Girnus

Posted on 07/23/2024 1:08:00 PM PDT by thegagline

A national civil rights leader is calling on Nevada to investigate a prominent Las Vegas businessman and Republican donor following allegations he repeatedly used racial slurs in the workplace and once pulled a gun on a Black truck driver.

The Rev. Al Sharpton wrote a letter to Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford calling for an investigation into Don Ahern, who made his name and fortune as a construction equipment tycoon and has become a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump and other GOP candidates, including congressional hopeful John Lee.

Sharpton’s call for an investigation, first reported by The Hill last month, came in response to documents surfaced from a now-settled 2022 lawsuit brought by a former Ahern Rentals employee in California. Mark Townsend alleged Ahern as CEO “regularly and frequently” used the n-word and made discriminatory comments about other marginalized groups.

CNBC reported on the allegations ahead of Trump’s most recent visit to Las Vegas, where Ahern co-hosted a private fundraiser for the former president with suggested donation levels ranging from $1,000 per person to more than $840,000 per couple.

Townsend alleged Ahern made repeated racist, sexist and ageist remarks during business meetings, including saying:


“We don’t like hiring n—–s. They are dumb. They are just born that way.”
“We do not hire any n——s or women for the sales force or positions where they are first seen by the public.”
“We need to get rid of all the old f——s, n—–s, Mexicans, and women, because they’re useless.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nevadacurrent.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: everything; isracist
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To: thegagline

If no video then it didn’t happen.


21 posted on 07/23/2024 1:24:03 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: thegagline

THe Dem lawfare has begun.

Sharpton thinks he is a heavy hitter. He has zero credibility, just another ankle biter these days.


22 posted on 07/23/2024 1:24:08 PM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: thegagline

Sharpton hates Jews. There I said it.


23 posted on 07/23/2024 1:30:46 PM PDT by Chgogal (To paraphrase Biden: You vote Democrat? Then you ain't smart.a)
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To: thegagline
Tell Sharpton it's alright. It's accepted language.

A scene from Blazzing Saddles

24 posted on 07/23/2024 1:32:28 PM PDT by A Cyrenian (MO's state motto: Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.)
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To: OldHarbor

Parkinson’s and other health problems.


25 posted on 07/23/2024 1:36:26 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: thegagline

There is going to be one issue in this election: “systemic racism”.

The Democrats, including, sadly, some YTs, will be attacking white Americans nonstop.

The GOP didn’t choose this battle, doesn’t want it, has never done well with it, and has a candidate who wants nothing more than to attract black votes to the GOP.

Unfortunately, it’s the battle the enemy has chosen, and if not fought hard it can be lost.


26 posted on 07/23/2024 1:36:32 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: thegagline

Now they are coming for you.Lawfare didn’t work on Trump. But his supporters, it might.


27 posted on 07/23/2024 1:40:46 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: thegagline

Who on earth hasn’t broken woke speech codes?


28 posted on 07/23/2024 1:42:42 PM PDT by wardaddy (Thank you God)
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To: Indy Pendance

And there are plenty of those.


29 posted on 07/23/2024 1:47:41 PM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not matter how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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The GOP should run “one race, human race” messaging


30 posted on 07/23/2024 1:51:50 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: thegagline

Tell me Al how many people did he incite to riot and murder….like you? It a little weird a huge racist/antisemite like Sharpton accusing anyone of racism .


31 posted on 07/23/2024 1:54:45 PM PDT by Mastador1
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To: thegagline

Who cares?


32 posted on 07/23/2024 1:54:50 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: thegagline

and it’s starting again. No video...no audio...nothing. Then they’ll make it about Trump and Vance....”They’re all racists”!!!!


33 posted on 07/23/2024 1:55:08 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Williams

“...once pulled a gun on a Black truck driver.”

Yet Fetterman did this, it’s on video with numerous witnesses and he is elected to the Senate and no mention of it from the left.


34 posted on 07/23/2024 1:56:28 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: thegagline

Investigate Sharpton.


35 posted on 07/23/2024 2:13:47 PM PDT by Eli Kopter
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To: Williams

Too many.


36 posted on 07/23/2024 2:16:49 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: thegagline

Al not so Sharpton is nothing but a con man.


37 posted on 07/23/2024 2:17:16 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Bayan

Doesn’t the “good reverend” have taxes he needs to pay?!


38 posted on 07/23/2024 2:18:09 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Eli Kopter

I agree.


39 posted on 07/23/2024 2:18:19 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: thegagline

The Democrats MISSED. All else is diversion.


40 posted on 07/23/2024 2:43:48 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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