The problem was, even during the worst period of income inequality in the United States in over a century, Laxalt was arguing against minimum wage increases, he also had his arrest record released from when he drunkenly assaulted a police officer in Virginia back in 1997. Which, y’know, it might not be perfect but it’s a hell of a lot better than say, the Fugitive Slave Act.Īfter a turbulent four years in office where he seemed to be proving his old law firm right, including when he sued the Obama administration for daring to try to keep migrant families being detained by ICE together, was opening a witch hunt into Planned Parenthood… and just, y’know, didn’t bother doing background checks on firearm sales as is required of his office (and it’s not like 50 people were killed in a shooting in downtown Las Vegas by a madman or anything…) Laxalt rolled the dice and took a shot at trying to get elected Governor of Nevada in 2018, by which we mean, Sheldon Adelson was hoping to shove enough money into his arse and try to roll him into the governor’s mansion to do his bidding like a good puppet. Hodges ruling, and even argued in 2010 against the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, writing, “ Cultural elites notwithstanding, homosexuality and its integration into society are anything but certain right now… It is one thing for the military to ask its members to accept homosexuals, but another for the military to ask its members to accept and live with homosexuality, the homosexual lifestyle.” Laxalt was also quoted as calling the Affordable Care Act “ the most flawed piece of major legislation America has ever endured”. Laxalt had strict anti-gay views, opposed same sex marriage enough to want to ignore the Supreme Court’s Obergefell vs.
On this date in 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day”profiled Adam Laxalt, the former Attorney General of Nevada from 2015-2019 who was originally elected by about 5,000 votes in 2014, even though his own law firm described him as a “ train wreck” and “ borderline incompetent” in a performance review only two years earlier. Adam Laxalt failed to get elected Governor of Nevada, and now wih Donald Trump's endorsement, he's trying for U.S.