“This guy should be hanging from a (expletive) crane,” Chattah wrote of Democratic opponent Aaron Ford. “He’s like the leader of (H)amas – making tons of money while the People in Gaza are starving.”
Chattah tells the Review Journal that her remark about hanging Ford was “tongue in cheek” and that “when I say to my friends, ‘I’m going to hang you from a crane,’ I don’t literally mean I’m going to hang you from a crane.”
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, the former friend who leaked the message, agrees that Chattah was not trying to be racist when she called for Ford’s hanging. That said, she does think the text shows that Chattah is not fit to be Nevada’s AG.