Ira Hansen  Credit: Facebook

Ira Hansen
Credit: Facebook

ira-hansen-facebook-800x430Nevada’s next House speaker is likely to be the most controversial in the state’s history, the Reno News Review reports.

According to the paper — which investigated 13 years’ worth of columns Ira Hansen wrote for the Sparks Tribune — the incoming Speaker of the House has the potential to be the most controversial in the state’s history given his print record of disliking blacks, gays, the state of Israel, most Nevadans, and even his Republican colleagues.

For example, he wrote that he composes his columns beneath a Confederate flag, “in honor and in memory of a great cause and my brave ancestors who fought for that cause.” Hansen devoted columns published around the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. to attacking the civil rights leader, writing that “King’s private life was trashy at best…King Jr. is as low as it gets, a […]

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