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'C'mon man': GOP governor busted for pressuring cop to let him go after traffic stop
Nevada’s Governor Got the Courtesy Dispensed to Everyone Else’s PowerPower Knows When to Speak FirstJoe Lombardo did not get pulled over as an ordinary driver. He got pulled over as Nevada’s governor, a man who understood exactly how to turn a traffic stop into a status display. The body-camera footage shows him identifying himself before the officer finished explaining the stop, then cutting the exchange short with a familiar little power move: not an argument, just the assumption that his name should do the work.That is the point. The governing class rarely needs to issue explicit orders to…
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