
Nevada Democratic senator Catherine Cortez Masto, a self-described “moderate,” said she was “proud to stand” with an avowed socialist at her latest campaign rally.
Cortez Masto on Sunday shared a photo with Clark County commissioner Tick Segerblom, writing, “I was proud to stand with [Segerblom] at my Gran Celebración Latina today! We will always fight for our families.” Segerblom, who served as a state legislator for more than a decade before joining the commission, is an unabashed socialist. Las Vegas’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter—which counts Segerblom as a member—has referred to the local official as “Comrade Commissioner” and touted his status as “one of the strongest progressive voices in Nevada and a well-loved member of our chapter.” Segerblom, meanwhile, has said he’s “not keeping quiet” until he gets “socialism,” called Nevada a “democratic socialist state,” and said he wants to see “a socialist in the White House.”…