Nevada GOPer Resigns As Speaker Over Controversial Columns On Race
The incoming elected Speaker of the Nevada Assembly Ira Hansen (R) said on Sunday that he would resign from his leadership position following a controversy surrounding columns he wrote about race, gender and other topics.
"For the greater good of the State of Nevada and the cause I support it is necessary for me to withdraw as Speaker Designee," Hansen said in a statement obtained by Nevada reporter Jon Ralston. "The tens of thousands of people who both read my columns and listened to my radio shows through two decades in the media know this has been a carefully orchestrated attack to remove a conservative Republican from a major leadership role in State government. The deliberate character assassination and the politics of personal destruction have totally distorted my views and record."
On Thursday, the Reno News & Review highlighted a few shocking columns Hansen wrote. In one column, he said that the "relationship of Negroes and Democrats is truly a master-slave relationship, with the benevolent master knowing what’s best for his simple minded drakes."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ira-hansen-nevada-speaker-simple-minded-darkies
Hansen on Sunday called the controversy over the columns a political attack.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ira-hansen-resigns-speaker-columns
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Unbelievable that this sub human was elected humans .
I'm beginning to suspect, that followers of either/both the GOP and Tea Party, have not only redefined the meaning of rape (as in legitimate rape), but also of racism and homophobic language. The fact that he hung on as long as he did, after the election..... wait, the fact that he was elected, is mind blowing. The home of the brave, has been replaced by the conspiracy theorists of the intolerant. 
