Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, and his wife and daughter “were accosted and threatened at a Las Vegas restaurant on Sunday by at least two men who shouted racial and anti-government epithets at them,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Monday, February 28, 2022 (see story and video here, or watch the video below).
A man later identified as Justin Andersch (photo, left), a local mixed martial arts figure and self-described “digital creator,” put his arm around the governor as if to pose for a selfie and then said, “I can’t tell you what a piece of fucking shit you are.”
He and another man followed the governor outside and continued their verbal abuse, with the second man screaming, “We should string you up by a lamppost right now! You know what they do to traitors? They hang traitors,” The Hill reported (here).
“You running into a patriot now. Huh? Huh?” Andersch said. I wouldn’t call that “patriotism.” How did local Republicans react to this incident?
Joey Gilbert (photo, right), a Reno lawyer, and Joe Lombardo (photo, below left), currently sheriff in Clark County (where the incident occurred) and head of Las Vegas police, are both seeking the GOP nomination to oppose Sisolak in November 2022.
Gilbert wrote on Facebook: “Hell no I do not condemn it. You earned it Steve. You absolutely earned it.”
Lombardo “said he understood ‘the frustration with Governor Sisolak and his left-wing policies,'” according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Real classy, boys, real classy.
https://youtu.be/TIcOsJzI5Mg