Incoming Nevada Speaker is a real piece of work

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You know, it's kind of hard to call this guy an aberration and "just a random crazy that managed to slip through" when his own conference elected him as speaker.

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How is the Nevada GOP so divided that a guy like Sandoval can be elected Governor but a guy like Ira Hansen can be speaker.

We've finally reached the tipping point when the GOP politicians are too crazy for the GOP voters.

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http://politicalwire.com/2014/11/20/incoming-nevada-speaker-left-a-paper-trail/

The Reno News and Review dug up the past writings of Nevada Assembly speaker-designate Ira Hansen (R) which would make him “one of the most controversial speakers in Nevada history.”

“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.”

Here are a couple choice quotes:

On race: “The relationship of Negroes and Democrats is truly a master-slave relationship, with the benevolent master knowing what’s best for his simple minded darkies. For American blacks, being denied choice and forced to attend the failing and inferior government school system is a form of involuntary servitude. Let’s call it what it truly is—educational slavery.”

On women: “Today, when Army men look at women in the ranks with ’longing in their eyes’ it very well may constitute ’sexual harassment.’ The truth is, women do not belong in the Army or Navy or Marine Corps, except in certain limited fields.”

Sounds like a mainstream Republican.  What's the issue here?

Mainstream republicans don't support slavery. Heck, I don't think Jim Risch (most conservative member of the senate) supports slavery.

He wasn't supporting slavery.  He was saying Democrats keep blacks in slavery. 

You act as if that's somehow better.