Legislative leaders tout friendly relations, prepare for high-stakes session
Assemblyman Jason Frierson and then-Senate Majority Leader Aaron Ford appeared cut from the same cloth when the 2017 legislative session convened.
They were classmates in law school. They attended the same church. They were part of the same historically black fraternity. Together, they became the first pair of African-American lawmakers to lead the Legislature.
But for all his history with Ford, Frierson says he and incoming Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson go back further.
“It’s easy to forget that I’ve known Kelvin for even longer,” Frierson said.
Atkinson was one of the first people Frierson met when he moved to Las Vegas in the late 1990s, and the two attended the same church. Atkinson, first elected to the Assembly in 2002, recruited and mentored Frierson when he first ran for office in 2010 and said he in turn has leaned on the Assembly speaker for advice on how to handle leading a caucus.
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