Former Nevada assemblywoman, state senator, lieutenant governor and gaming commissioner, Sue Wagner has turned in her Republican registration to become an Independent.
Explaining her decision, she said she has tired of the GOP’s embrace of far right politics.
“I did it as a symbol, I guess, that I do not like the Republican Party and what they stand for today…I’ve been a Republican all my life. My dad was active [as a Republican] in the state of Maine where I was born. It was more of a moderate, liberal Republican Party.
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It’s grown so conservative and tea-party orientated and I just can’t buy into that…I’ve left the Republican Party and it’s left me…”
Wagner was the first woman elected as lieutenant governor. She
was preceded by Maude Frazier, appointed lieutenant governor in 1962.
[NOTE: The first version said Wagner was the first woman to serve as lieutenant governor. We’ve fixed the error.]
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