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Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has decided to leave the Republican Party, according to the Associated Press.
Bundy registered with the Independent American Party at an event in Las Vegas on Friday.
“I haven’t got much good out of the Democrats and Republicans so I decided to try a new one,” Bundy said,according to the Elko Daily Free Press.
The rancher became a bit of a conservative darling last month, drawing the praise of right-wing pundits and politicians alike after he made headlines for his dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing his cattle on public land. Many of his conservative backers began distancing themselves from Bundy after remarks he made about “the Negro” in which he pondered about whether African-Americans might have been “better off as slaves” became public.
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has decided to leave the Republican Party, according to the Associated Press.
Bundy registered with the Independent American Party at an event in Las Vegas on Friday.
“I haven’t got much good out of the Democrats and Republicans so I decided to try a new one,” Bundy said,according to the Elko Daily Free Press.
The rancher became a bit of a conservative darling last month, drawing the praise of right-wing pundits and politicians alike after he made headlines for his dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing his cattle on public land. Many of his conservative backers began distancing themselves from Bundy after remarks he made about “the Negro” in which he pondered about whether African-Americans might have been “better off as slaves” became public.
“The question is, are they slaves the way they are, where they live as slaves to the charity and government-subsidized homes, and are they slaves when their daughters are having abortions and their sons are in the prisons?” Bundy said in the off-the-cuff comments first reported by theNew York Times.
“I am very quick in calling American citizens ‘patriots,’” one-time Bundy-supporter and Nevada GOP Sen. Dean Heller said in an interview after the remarks surfaced. “Maybe in this case, too quick.”
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