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NV lawmakers seek to repeal anti-communist law
AP ^ | November 24, 2012

Posted on 11/25/2012 1:30:31 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada legislative panel has decided it's high time to repeal a state law that allows job discrimination against communists.

The 12-member Legislative Commission unanimously decided this week to introduce a bill at the 2013 session that would repeal a law that was passed in 1951 during the anti-communist fervor of the Cold War.

The law allows employers to reject job applications from communists and their sympathizers, and to fire any communists in their workforce. ....

Legislative staffers told the Las Vegas Review-Journal The law was passed during an era of renewed fears that Communists were infiltrating all walks of American life, concerns that gained the national stage with hearings conducted by U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. Thousands of Americans, including entertainers, teachers, union activists and government employees, were scrutinized and often accused of being Communists or sympathizers.

At the time, Nevada politics was dominated by anti-communist U.S. Sen. Patrick McCarran, D-Nev., who secured passage by Congress of a bill creating the federal Subversive Activities Control Board.

The law required the registration of communist-front organizations with the U.S. attorney general, and paved the way for states to approve their own anti-communist laws. Congress later abolished the board.

No Nevada lawmakers who voted on the 61-year-old state law are alive today.

"How could they do it?" asked former U.S. Rep. Barbara Vucanovich, R-Nev. "I am amazed we had this law."

(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...


TOPICS: US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: anticommunistlaw; communists; nevada
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To: Doogle

Lord help us she is the spitting image of a democrat!


21 posted on 11/25/2012 2:11:15 PM PST by RightLady
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To: Farmer Dean

And there’s an “R” by her name, too.


22 posted on 11/25/2012 2:15:48 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Fiji Hill

Also, there was virtually no home-grown incarnation of this stuff. It was seen as the toxic foreign import it was.

Some Republicans need to get a better sense of history.


23 posted on 11/25/2012 2:22:07 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Lazamataz

would you hit it?


24 posted on 11/25/2012 2:22:48 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: C210N

Any political party that takes the slogan “FORWARD,” without also specifying forward to just what, will be banned.


25 posted on 11/25/2012 2:24:08 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yes and the R next to her name makes everything okay for some. lol


26 posted on 11/25/2012 2:26:52 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Doogle

The old cow needs to be run out of town on a rail.


27 posted on 11/25/2012 2:45:15 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“...The law allows employers to reject job applications from communists and their sympathizers, and to fire any communists in their workforce.”

I see nothing wrong with this Law. Too bad we don’t have a National Law like, If we did it would then be Bye-Bye Obommer and his crowd of thugs.


28 posted on 11/25/2012 2:57:07 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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Self-ping. Thanks Tailgunner Joe.


29 posted on 11/25/2012 3:06:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I guess my ‘Kill a Commie for Mommy” T shirt would not go over well. I got it from a Black Hawk pilot I used to fly with.


30 posted on 11/25/2012 3:32:23 PM PST by jesseam (eliev)
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To: Fiji Hill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Vucanovich
She should know- she was 30 years old at the time....


31 posted on 11/25/2012 5:15:09 PM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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