Report: Nevada GOPer Calls Black Colleague ‘Colored Man’ During Hearing

FILE - In this June 3, 2013, file photo, Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas, works in committee during the final day of the 77th Legislative session at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev. Taxa... FILE - In this June 3, 2013, file photo, Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas, works in committee during the final day of the 77th Legislative session at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev. Taxation Committee Chairwoman Michele Fiore broke her weeklong silence about dozens of tax liens filed against her and her companies, saying an unnamed employee who stole from her and systematically deceived her accountant was at the root of the problem. Fiore, a sophomore Republican lawmaker and Assembly majority leader, told conservative radio host Alan Stock on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014, that she has addressed the issue. She also argued that her experience working with the IRS though the resolution process is a reason she should retain her leadership on the tax committee. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, File) MORE LESS
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Nevada state Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R) reportedly referred to a black colleague as a “colored man” on Tuesday during a committee hearing on voter identification laws, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper.

Fiore referred to Assemblyman Harvey Munford (D) as the first “colored man to graduate from his high school,” according to the Review-Journal report.

The assemblywoman, who argued that stricter voter-ID laws would not disproportionately affect minority voters, also said, “We’re in 2015 and we have a black president, in case anyone didn’t notice,” according to the newspaper.

Fiore was recently in the news for saying that “hot little girls on campus” need guns to protect them from sexual assault.

h/t ThinkProgress

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  1. Well HE IS colored. COLOred BLAck OR brOWN. DIdn’t see a picture. Also, Her hair IS clearLY colored. blond With BRown ROOts. SO much for post-racialistic libtards.

  2. Post racial society looks a lot like regular old racial society to me.

  3. Avatar for jw1 jw1 says:

    ConnectingTheDots:

    ‘Hot little girls on campus need guns to protect them from sexual assault by colored men.’

    Not a long stretch between those dots of thought either.

    jw1

  4. She looks like a Mob wife.

  5. Avatar for korvu korvu says:

    It is a very diverse assembly. They also have a bimbo as an assemblywoman.

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