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Gun-toting Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore to rescue?

In a Monday, June 3, 2013, file photo, Nevada Assemblywoman Michelle Fiore, R-Las Vegas, works in committee during the final day of the 77th Legislative session at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev. Fiore spoke Wednesday to some of the four occupiers of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon. As David Fry and Sean Anderson yelled back and forth with the FBI, Fiore spoke to them and Sandy Anderson on a phone, telling them she could only help them if they stayed alive. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, File)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
In a Monday, June 3, 2013, file photo, Nevada Assemblywoman Michelle Fiore, R-Las Vegas, works in committee during the final day of the 77th Legislative session at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev. Fiore spoke Wednesday to some of the four occupiers of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon. As David Fry and Sean Anderson yelled back and forth with the FBI, Fiore spoke to them and Sandy Anderson on a phone, telling them she could only help them if they stayed alive. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, File)
In a Monday, June 3, 2013, file photo, Nevada Assemblywoman Michelle Fiore, R-Las Vegas, works in committee during the final day of the 77th Legislative session at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev. Fiore spoke Wednesday to some of the four occupiers of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon. As David Fry and Sean Anderson yelled back and forth with the FBI, Fiore spoke to them and Sandy Anderson on a phone, telling them she could only help them if they stayed alive. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, File)

It was the most cinematic of moments, and Michele Fiore was not going to miss it. As helicopters swirled overhead and heavily armed FBI agents crept closer, the four frantic, fearsome anti-government occupiers still inside the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon heard a familiar voice on the telephone line. “We’re putting our big-girl panties on now, and we are taking America back.” Michele Fiore to the rescue. From the Portland airport five hours away, Fiore, 45, proceeded to act as the occupiers’ de facto negotiator, at times agreeing with their radical views and at others, calming them down/ Washington Post . More here .

Question: Don’t look now, but gun-toting Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore has arrived on the national scene, for better or worse. Thoughts?

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