Nevada Assembly member Jim Wheeler has come under fire recently for a response he gave at a town hall regarding slavery. When Wheeler was asked, "What if those citizens decided they wants to, say, bring back slavery? Hey, if it's what the citizens want, right Jim?," he responded with this: "If that's what they wanted, I'd have to hold my nose, I'd have to bite my tongue and they'd probably have to hold a gun to my head, but yeah, if that's what the citizens of the, if that's what the constituency wants that elected me, that's what they elected me for. That's what a republic is about. You elected a person for your district to do your wants and wishes, not the wants and wishes of a special interest, not his own wants and wishes, yours." After receiving plenty of backlash for his comments, Wheeler released the following statement yesterday: "The media is having a good time with a clearly facetious statement I made in a t...
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