Vote Gibbons Out! Jim Gibbons is America's Worst Governor!

Gib-Unity

You have to hand it to the Governor. He has fulfilled his promise from his first state of the state, namely that he would unify Nevada.

It's just that he's unified it against him.

Now that his Bush-One moment is sinking into the consciousness of the loonies who supported him because of his no-taxes pledge, his pals have decided to cannibalize him. They've read his lips now that he's throwing his support for a band-aid room tax increase in a desperate attempt to keep the state budget from hemorrhaging and decided, like the rest of us, that he's the world's worst gubernator. (Myth)

Yes, it is rather pathetic and sad for our pals up north to pick this one issue out of O so many to condemn the Gube. (LVG,Seb) Though, there are voices up there who know the litanity of his lunacies. (LVT,RGJ)

Well, so what? If our pals up north want to spread some of that Silver State Strategies money around or even some of those Freedom Watch funds to oust America's Worst, who would say no?

It'd be the first time that money got spent on something useful.

Hey, Chuck would look swell in one of them shirts, too.

Course, ridding ourselves of the Gube won't solve any of our problems, except one that is, but it sure would feel good, wouldn't it?

Chad Christensen Decides to Run Anyway

Cross posted from Nor'town.

This morning, Molly Ball was reporting that the Republican incumbent for Assembly District 13 wouldn't be running. (RJ) This prompted pundits from New Jersey to award Andrew Martin (D) their weekly "winner" moniker cuz that would give Martin an easier time of it. (NJPoltiker).

However, the Clark County Elections thingy is now reporting that Christensen has joined the race. Apparently he couldn't convince his heir apparent to run.

For a list of Nor'Town candidates, visit Nor'Town Election Central, which is under construction but still recommended by the management.

Now I'm confused. The RJ headline said that Christensen would support the candidate that filed today. Would that be Libertarian candidate Steffan Reed or Christensen?

I Take it All Back

The stuff about how silly it was for the Governor to insist that the Nevada State Death Division post those Center of Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, I mean.

Nope. Best idea the Governor ever had. The report on the Nevada Hepatitis C outbreak just goes to show how a government agency can get useful work done. How government can be part of a solution to problems as opposed to a slack-jawed, supply-sider impediment.

You'll learn that May is Hepatitis Awareness Month! And May 19 is World Hepatitis Day!

Better late than never, I suppose.

Be sure to play this game with the kids: can you guess what clinic is "clinic A" in the report? Or: how many cars the guy owns who used to run it? And how many he tried to sneak out of the country? And why the Governor hasn't clapped him in irons?

I think Nevada should push to be the official Hepatitis State, don't you? Oh wait, that's one of those bad lists again, isn't it?

Oh, and there's the part of the report that concludes: "Better surveillance, education, and oversight are needed to detect and prevent bloodborne pathogen [that is, icky cooty] transmission in ambulatory and other health-care settings."

Ooo. Do you think there will be anything in the budget for that?

Myrna the Minx, Nekkid

In a totally irresponsible move, Reno blogger Myrna the Minx has bared herself to the shocked Nevada blogosphere and actually given up her anonymity! (RN&R)

O the horror!

Hath the woman no shame? How dare she strip aside the mantel of mystery which shades the typical anonymous Nevada blogger in dark creepiness? How does she expect to project that air of unseemliness, of backstreet ooze, that coats a disreputable blog like vomit on a Nor"Town drunk?

Um. Assuming that's what you're blog's going for, that is.

And for what did she give up her anonymity? To go all entrepreneurial and put out a bunch of blogs and websites like renofabulous.com or clutterlove.com along with reno and its discontents.

Bah! Some of us will stand by our principles and maintain our secrets to the grave, or at least until Sheldon Adelson offers us a million bucks, because it's the right thing to do!

Besides, just think how it would totally screw up the divorce case if I really turn out to be Dawn?

Wallin, Masto Cave to Gube Proposal

The NDOT Board has embraced a Gibbers' notion to go ahead and privatize Nevada road construction since everybody has given up on the state budget ever paying for anything ever again. (Gube)

It's no surprise that Vicey Gube Krolicki and Gibbons'-funder Paul Morabito threw in with the Gube. After all, Krolicki wishes he had had a private company doing his Treasurer job--since he wasn't--and Morabito paid a lot for that seat.

But what were State Controller Barbara Wallin and AG Catherine Cortez Masto thinkin'? Somebody please tell me they were outvoted by the Gubinoids.

You'd think Morabito would be more worried about the roads, too, given how he seems to be commuting from California.

Heh. A while ago Erin Neff noted that Dawn and Jim have gotten into the public-private stuff before. You know, with Sierra Nevada Corp and eTreppid. (RJ)

Well, it will be interesting to see what those public-private proposals turn out to be. I'm guessing a rickshaw lane on the I-15. Casino and mining ycoons in the back pulled by unemployed carpenters and Tropicana middle management types.

And to make up for not setting up a special investigation into the hepatitis outbreak, the Governor will be...drum-roll please...posting how many people are croaking on a website. (Gube) That makes everything all better, don't it?

Well, what did you expect? Doctors helped fund the 2006 campaign, remember?

Blast that Masto, she's made the non-existent Gibbons Recall effort even more non-existencier by allowing only the nut cases who voted in '06 sign the petition. (RGJ,Sun) They're the tards who put Gibbers in the Gube spot in the first place.

[UPDATE: Quick! Rush out and try to prove you're relevant by hastily throwing together some regulations about some sordid story outta Nor'Town that made state officials look really stupid. (Gube)]

Winebibber vs Martini Man

Well, 2010 might not be as dull as I thought. You know, watching the Democrats throw some sacrificial lamb out to be defeated by the Gibbons-Adelson-Lampman money machine would be kinda depressing.

No more! The wife of Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman has given the G-man the green light for a gube run, sez morning pape.

Gibbons' spokester replied that Gibbons is focused on destroying what little remains of Nevada's budget and health care infrastructure (RJ), so he couldn't be bothered with politics.

Except, of course, to the extent that he's already thinking about the election, and probably already calling up Sheldon and the boys on the Strip for donations:

“He’s given me every indication he’ll run for reelection,” [unfortunate Gib-spokester] Denton said. “Two and a half years is a lifetime in politics. I expect that a lot of people will express interest in running, as they have in the past.” (Sun)

With Gibbons in the gubertorium, two and a half years will be an eternity.

And that's assuming Adelson will have anything left after throwing away all that dough trying to prop up what's left of the Republican party. (LVG)

What else is in that Sun story?

Holy crap! ex-Clark County Sheriff Bill Young is thinking of getting back into politics by running for gube!

You know Bill. He personally took those first few panicky calls from then gube-candidate Gibbons after the alleged waitress-groping in 2006.

And Dean Heller, too! These Repukelicans must consider Gibbers among the walking dead.

Poor Sheldon, who's he gonna finance?

[UPDATE: Hmm. I once tried to draw a picture of the mayor.]

Infectious Gubelets

• Gibbons tells Southern Nevadans that he really doesn't care where they got their hepatitis C by refusing to appoint a special investigator into the outbreak. Surprisingly, legislative Democrats protest. (INP,Sun)
• Let's see, how many times have we read in the Review Journal that John Mason, whose daughter may have been groped by Gibbons' new efficiency expert, lied about playing with some obscure rock band? Do you think they'll be printing a retraction given evidence to the contrary? (RN&R,VTS,Myth)
• The Governor has no role in the dispute, we learn. (KLAS) No, he just made the appointment despite a vague memory of the controversy as far back as his backbenching days in Congress. "The Governor assumed that if there was any truth to the allegation it would have been handled by the appropriate authorities."  Umm, "handled" as in "made to disappear," like the Mazzeo case, or the Trepp thing?

Republxor: The Change You Deserve

So the Republicans try to breathe new life into the rotting corpse of their party by coming up with a new slogan: "The Change You Deserve!" Besides the rather obvious double meaning, it turns out that the slogan was already in use in the advertising for an anti-depressant drug. (Huff)

Here's my mock-up for the advertising campaign of the new product:

Gibbons' Country: Sordid Daytime Soap Edition

• It's the battle of the Rich Tahoe Gibbons' cronies! Who's lying? The alleged teeny-bopper fancier or the failed political bossman? (RJ)
• Pity the poor Review Journal, it doesn't know which one to discredit, tho it seems to be going after Mason. (RJ)
• Pity the poor Gib-spokester who claims the GIbbers' administration would not support a crappy appointee despite many precedents for the opposite, like Larry Martines and Phil Galeoto.
• The RJ abandons it's support for open government and won't sue to look at the Gibbons' divorce papers because, well, mumble, mumble, mumble...news is news...and have I reached my word count yet so I can go back to my nap? ... (RJ)
• Wasn't me! I wouldn't spend $500 on votebeersout.com. Not when votebeersout.org is available cheap, as is beerisaputz.com. Loyal readers know who Beers' friend is, too. And everybody raise your hand if you thought Beers was really going to "play nice" this campaign.
• Cretins note that divorce could hurt cretin, AP notes, especially if you throw in the mismanagement of the budget crisis, the mismanagement of the health care crisis, and the mismanagement of the mismanagement.
• Looks like Dawn's old boss got a shiny new government contract. He might have a position for her. I wonder if we'll be hearing anything about Dean Heller going on a nice trip to Turkey in a couple of years?

Click the pic for a closer look.

Put some chump on your chest.

SAGE Boss Scandal

According to KLAS TeeVee, Bruce James, who is heading up the Governor's NSAGE team, once engaged in an "incident" with the teen-aged daughter of a former head of the national Nevada Repukelican party, John Mason.

Mason supposedly told Gibbons not to appoint James or he would make the information public. Apparently, John Ensign and former governor Kenny Guinn we also informed:

The incident allegedly occurred nearly five years ago when Mason's daughter was a student in Washington, D.C. James lived there with his wife at the time. No criminal charges were filed.

Well-placed sources tell Eyewitness News the White House intervened in the situation, and then Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez asked John Mason to keep the story quiet so it would not be an embarrassment to President Bush.

Mason has told fellow republicans that he kept quiet at the time. However, other prominent Nevadans, including Jim Gibbons, who was serving in Congress at the time, were informed.

Also allegedly told: Senator John Ensign and former governor, Kenny Guinn.

Yetch. More Repukelican family values.

Move Along...Only Irresponsible Adolescent Scandal Mongering Today

• Who's Kathy? You're asking me? (RJ,CN24-7)
• Erin Neff is Quotabull.
• The worst rewrite of a Brendan Riley piece goes to...the Telegraph! Yay!
• Oh, yeah. We're doomed, in case you haven't figured that out yet.
• In case you're confused: Gibbons is a winner this week... to the guys in New Jersey, anyways.
• [UPDATE: No taxes Jim pulls a Bush-one and now is talking about a hike in room taxes. (AP)]

Gubelets: Ancient Chinese Apes Edition

• Well, Broadway shows didn't really work on the Strip, how about sordid political theater? (Sun) We learn, even Chuck Myth thinks the Gube screwed the pooch in his handling of the divorce. Many GOP apologists are rendered speechless.
• Actually, the divorce proceedings will be moved to Reno from Carson City, judge rules. (AP) The Gube did not oppose the move instigated by Dawn.
• Now that the Governor has instilled all of us with such confidence in his judgment, he'll be asking oh, so sympathetic lawmakers for $800 million in budget cuts, which includes 14 to 20 percent in cuts. (AP,Sun)
• Sigh. I'm gonna miss Dina Titus beating up on the Gube. Said she of the NSAGE commission, which the Gube thinks  will find money for tax cuts: "I don't think anybody is going to look for a tax cut," ... "Right now, we're looking for ways to fill a hole in a budget. We're not in any place to cut taxes, but maybe, hopefully to avoid future cuts in programs and holes in the budget." And of the news that the commission will be stuffed with Gibbons' bidness buddies and cronyies: "If it's already started like that, where he has handpicked the people with his agenda, then I don't think it will be credible," (RGJ)
• With the announcement of a possible 70 cases of  hepatitis caused by those dirty butt-probes, area pundits remind us of how Gibbons wanted to blame it all on the media, as opposed to failed state inspections. (VTS,INP,LVG)
• Worst copy yet on the divorce, over on Greta.
• "Newly discovered fossil teeth of an ancient ape species show clear similarities to those of modern gibbons". Yes, really. (SN) Good article on carbon sequestration over there, too. (SN) Good to know, in case they ever pay their water bill over there at Turdquop.

Recognized, Established Business Leaders

Ralston's flash, which always makes me think of a guy in a trench coat, notes that the Gube's new NSAGE efficiency commission only has room for businessmen, as if they were experts on what makes government efficient, as opposed to spending most of their time trying to fool the board of directors into shoveling mounds of cash into their retirement funds.

From the Gube's executive order:

Members: The members of the SAGE [sic] Commission shall be recognized, established business leaders, either active or retired, with the expertise and experience required to carry out the mission of the SAGE [sic] Commission. No member should have a personal or professional conflict of interest that would prevent such a member from fully and objectively discharging his or her duties. (Gube)

Well, at least that last line pretty well excludes most of Jimbo's pals, including chairman Bruce James, a notorious Republican enabler.

We wouldn't want any ordinary citizens, or planning or budget specialists on that committee, would we? And it was an especially good idea to keep all those pesky eggheads from the local ivy covered halls of academe away from the commission lest they pollute the universal back scratching by tendering an actual idea or two.

And for some reason, not disclosed in the gube press release, the name of one Frank Partlow is listed, presumably because he's supposed to be James' wingman. (Damon confirms that, sorta.) He's a retired General, worked as a bureaucrat in the government printing office with James, and wrote for some rag up north. He also has a book out from that exciting Sparks publishing house, ColDoc, a book only read by Herzik's unlucky undergraduates, probably.

Doesn't Partlow sound like a recognized, established business leader?

Wonkette Struggles to Keep Up With Gube Breakup

Our Governor makes Wonkette, again. The best part is the post-breakup picture of the Governor's room at the mansion cum bachelor pad, in the comments.

Check out Inside Nevada Politics as the Carson City press corps asks the darnedest questions, like does the Gube waste gas on his Reno commute to the manse? or Will the Gube be able to cut the manse budget if he's the only one there? Funny stuff, guys and gals.

[UPDATE: over on Wonkette, there is an exclusive video of Gibbons' last trip to the doctor. Where do they get those ideas?]

Hump Day Boo Hoo Goobettes

• Jon Ralston, who was chortling like a fifth grader in a sex ed class when jabbering with spin-meisters over on a Pate to Pate devoted to the Gubernatorial divorce, gives us a truly roller-coaster ride today as he try to convince us that he feels the Goober's and first co-conspirator's pain while slipping them a knife or two in the back. Warning: take your dramamine before reading. (Sun)
• John L. Smith and the Sun Editorial staff aren't so charitable. I for one was truly surprised to learn from Dawn's lawyer that she suddenly favors "transparency." So, she'll be telling us all about how her hubby's job in Congress helped her get that consulting gig with Sierra Nevada Corp, I suppose. Right? The MSM wouldn't happen to have an update on that story, would they? No? Thought not.
• Northerners don't seem to want to be bothered by the dying gasps of their favored son's failed marriage--or his failed administration. (NA)
• Soldiering on, the Governor tries to pretend he's relevant by inefficiently creating his 4000th gube commission, the RJ lovingly and dutifully reports.
• Hey, wanna meet Repukelican candidates  for northwest Clark County? Me neither. But, all you'll need is $10.00, a willing suspension of disbelief, and I'm guessing a tux. There will even be turkey burgers by a top chef. Turkey burgers by a top chef? Take that, all you liberal, effete snobs! (BBB)

Life Under Fluted, Ionic Columns

• Brendan Riley takes on the thankless task of trying to explain the Gube and his divorce to non-Nevadans. (AP) Now, all we need is somebody to explain it to us.
• Dawn's mouthpiece wants a change of venue from Carson City to Washoe County, where the events that led Gibbers to file papers "accrued." (INP,RGJ) Hey, if you guys want a real change in venue, send it down here! I wonder if they let people watch a sealed trial? Do they allow popcorn?
• The Reno Gazette-Journal loses its case to peek at the papers from the Gibbons' gun permit fiasco, tho they plan to appeal. (INP,RGJ)
• Washoe DA was afeared that making the papers public would make Gibbons the target "of dangerous and deranged individuals." (INP) What, he's afraid of a suicide attempt?
  

Dawn's Death Grip

Weirdly prophetic once again, Gibbons' Country showed Dawn Gibbons' death grip on the Gubernatorium before her attorney told us about it. (RJ)

Like a trooper, or a failed politician looking for her next gig, Dawn tells us that she will continue her duties despite the fact that once divorced, she will have lost the one and only qualification for her current position.

The court order sealing the divorce proceedings will allow us to see Jimbo's complaint, Dawn's counter-complaint, the ruling and any motions. We won't get to see the testimony, though, wherein we may learn where those Trepp poker chips are stashed.

Oddly, Northern egghead sez that "politically, nothing good" will come from the trial. Except perhaps the failed re-election bid of America's Worst Governor? The end of the GIbbons' family reign of terror? That's not good, Mr. Egghead? (RGJ) Always good to see UNR professors maintaining their scientific objectivity.

Updates on the Blatherin'

I haven't seen so much blatherin' over Gibbons' failed Gubeship since everybody was blatherin' about a recall in Spring 2007.

Maybe this will become an annual event. Once a year Jim Gibbons will do something outstandingly stupid, as opposed to the weekly gaffe, and everyone will get into a frenzy, flash VGO in the background of pointless TeeVee news reports, and then forget all about the Gube for eleven months.

Last year it was something truly serious, though: allegations of bribery and an FBI investigation, which is still going on, by the way, in case you, like most Nevadans, forgot.

When was the last time there was a substantive update on that affair in the media, by the way?

Instead we got the divorce, which will probably prove more harmful to Gibbons' sorry career than rumors of bribery because, I suppose, the Gibbons' core can forgive shady deals for a fast buck because that's what makes them the Gibbons' core: building fortunes from shady deals for a fast buck. But to divorce one's second wife? Well, it's just not done--unless there's a twenty-something trophy honey waiting in the wings, maybe.

Anyways, the divorce was the subject of a Pate to Pate with the Gleaner in a suit and Steve Wark, the one guy in the state who hates Dawn more than Jimbo. We learn from Dawn's attorney what I told you a few days ago and smarter people have been saying for awhile--Dawn wears the political pants in the family.

Steve Friess has been keeping the WaPo crowd apprised of the sorry affair, though relying on Muth to support a claim that Nevada Republicans are really worried about Gibbers' re-election isn't all that convincing. (WaPo)

What should really concern them is: who will run the campaign if Dawn is gone? Siggy and Bobby? By themselves?

A VGO commentator makes an interesting comment: how come a judge who was going to recuse himself from the divorce suddenly decides to seal the records?

This won't be the first time a judge will have recused himself from a case involving the Guber. Anybody remember Judge Larry Hicks?

Anyways, if you'd like to join a google group organizing to remove Gibbons, you can join the huge membership over here. Okay, maybe not so huge, but that's up to you. If we actually start to organize, Gibbons won't be gube after 2010. If we don't, even the divorce won't matter.

Besides, the whole divorce thing is just Jimbo's way of helping out Porter by creating a scandal to overshadow Dina Titus' campaign. You know, like last time.

     

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Gibbers' Divorce Makes the Mucker

Our governor's most recent shenanigans have won him a spot on TPMMuckraker, with the obligatory reprise of his other gaffes and failings.

Ooo. The astroturf group funded by coal-mine owners and electric companies, which was formerly known as ABEC, now has a new name. Something like brek-kek-kek-kek koax koax. (Sun) Well, a turd by any other name still smells as bad.

Hmm. Let's encourage people to hold off paying their taxes as long as possible by declaring a tax amnesty program! (Gube) Yay! That'll teach 'em not to break the law!

Oh, wait...

[UPDATE: Some of the Gibbons' divorce proceedings will be sealed. (INP,AP) So, where's the Review Journal attorneys suing for their beloved open records?

Well, at least the judge has ordered the couple not to sell those Trepp poker chips. (Sun)

Oooo. Gibbers gun hearing tomorrow. (INP)]

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