Social video shows ‘racist’ taunts of Nevada governor, wife

LAS VEGAS — Nevada’s governor and his wife were accosted during the weekend by two men who followed them out of a Las Vegas restaurant shouting profanities, taunts and anti-government statements in an incident posted on the internet. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, characterized the Sunday evening incident as “racist threats.” His wife is a former municipal finance specialist of Chinese heritage who was born in the Nevada town of Ely. A separate media message posted by Sisolak’s press aide, Meghin Delaney, called the governor “deeply disappointed in how this incident unfolded, particularly with the language used to talk about First Lady Kathy Sisolak’s heritage.” The Sisolaks, who were not accompanied at the restaurant by a state security officer, were going to meet his daughter. Cellphone video posted to social media showed more than a minute of an encounter beginning with a man wearing a red “Cannabis and Combat” T-shirt getting up from a table, asking Sisolak for a photo, posing with his arm around Sisolak, and then calling the governor a string of epithets. As Kathy Sisolak joins the governor heading out the door, the man trails them, declaring, “You working-for-China.” Another man seen pushing a child away as he rises from a restaurant booth follows, calling Sisolak a traitor.