Nevada State Democratic Party spokesperson Stewart Boss released the following statement on Assemblyman Jim Wheeler being elected today as the new leader of the Assembly Republican caucus:
“The fact that Assembly Republicans feel comfortable putting a legislator who’s open to voting for slavery in charge of their caucus is disturbing and deeply offensive. Assemblyman Wheeler’s troubling rhetoric and recent efforts to smear the African-American leaders of Nevada’s legislature have been matched by a political agenda designed to restrict voting rights, block bipartisan reforms to the criminal justice system and demonize immigrants. Assemblyman Wheeler has made it his mission as a legislator to increase the corrosive partisanship and political dysfunction in Carson City, and he is a toxic choice to lead the Assembly Republican caucus.”
#TBT to 2013 — Senator Roberson: “It’s time for Jim Wheeler to find a new line of work.”
Read more about Nevada’s new Assembly GOP leader, Jim Wheeler:
- Las Vegas Sun: Nevada lawmaker says he’d vote for slavery if his constituents wanted him to
- AP: Nevada lawmaker Jim Wheeler stirs firestorm over slavery remark
- Las Vegas Review-Journal: EDITORIAL: Time for Wheeler to go
- KVVU: Las Vegas Chamber asking for assemblyman to resign
- AP: Vegas newspaper, chamber urge Wheeler to resign
- Washington Post: Jonathan Capehart: Jim Wheeler is a ‘slave’ to his constituents
- Las Vegas Sun: Assembly Republicans in disarray after repeated gaffes
- Las Vegas Review-Journal: Nevada assemblyman who made slavery remark ordered to explain financials
- Ralston Reports: What Jim Wheeler says about his girlfriend
- Ralston Reports: Jim Wheeler hates Las Vegas
- The Colbert Report: Blood In The Water – Jim Wheeler’s Hypothetical Slavery Vote
