NV: Legislative Official Writing Biography on State Senator Bill Raggio
Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2009 12:05 Written by rslcpol Monday, 9 March 2009 11:24
From the Review Journal:
“I’m not looking for negative angles, but I cannot find a person who, even if they don’t agree with his politics, doesn’t absolutely admire him as a person,” Archer said of Raggio, who at 82 is the longest-serving lawmaker in state history. “It’s deserved. He has earned everything he’s gotten in life.”
To tell Raggio’s story, Archer has reached all the way back to his maternal great-grandmother, who came to Nevada from Italy during the Civil War.
A portrait emerges, he said, of a “tough guy” who, while Washoe County district attorney, had a white coat stained with blood from “wading into a riot.”