Mining Guv Keeps Caving In

Millionaire Molly digs up Gibbons' Energy Czarette Hatice Gecol, whose website mistakenly claims the University of Nevada is in Reno. Everybody knows the University of Nevada is in Las Vegas.

The Indian Turkish Engineer down-played Gibbons' liquid-coal proposal and even suggested that her specialty--biofuels--doesn't look like a promising industry in a state low on corn and soybeans and ancient grease, most of  which is currently going to a pig-farm in Nor'town anyway. If only you could burn tortoises.

No, we are assured, the Gube will concentrate on wind, solar, geothermal, and tortoise farts in his search for energy inside Nevada borders as opposed to inside Wyoming's. Okay, I made up the part about tortoise farts, but Wyoming need not fear that Nevada won't soon be heavily dependent on Wyoming coal. 46% percent of our electrical power will be coming from Wyoming by 2012.

You'd think Gibbons woulda picked a specialist in one of them fields to spearhead Dina's his alternative-fuels initiative, maybe even an egghead from that Desert Research Institute he was going to rely on so much. But then again, the Gibster sorta came late to that alternatives-fuel stuff. Had to make a complete goober of himself first with his Wyoming subsidy plan, which probably looked a lot better after socking back a few at a mining lobbyist convention.

Gecol says that the coal-liquidification stuff isn't completely dead, however. In fact, instead of using gallons of water and sucking Lake Mead dry in the process, you can use sand. Hmm. Wonder what kinda nasty gunk that leaves behind. Better hope tortoises can eat it.

The discontented Mynx with some help from a gleaner-groupie spotted the following: Gibbons' wife Dawn pocketed over $93,000 from the Gibster's 2004 run for congress and $18,000 from the Gibbons' Education First initiative. (OS, NVDems) Most of the money was for  "consulting for fund-raising." (Insert off-color joke containing double-entendre about how her consultation helped raise Jim's fund here.) Dawn was still drawing a salary from Politek as late as 2005 (RJ), but the company was dissolved in August of 2005 (SoS). Ah, Congress. The family bidness.

And following the suggestion of KidFromVegas, I have installed bit-o-javascript over on the right to count down the days until we can start gathering signatures for the Gibbons' recall.

Gibbons will have two body-guards with him when he leaves town at the end of the month for the Winter Gubeathon. (Sun) They'll prove useful holding on to that next waitress.

Hey Kids! Don't miss: Tips for telling Bob Beers and Steve Sebelius apart! They even work if you're boozed up and careening down the halls of the Legislature!

Comments

[texex]

Isn't Hatice Gecol that yukky stuff mom used to give us as a kid when we were sick? Or is it that fuel additive that Michael Waltrip used last week?

It if it in fact the name of a real person, maybe she can do a Turkish genie job and conger up a source for renewable WATER. You know - the stuff we need to maintain life. Now there's a resource we could really use!~!

More electricity=more neon signs and there's enough of those now to spot Vegas from three galaxies away. I can live without more neon signs attracting alienb beings like Gibbons to Area 52. You don't really believe he's one of "us", do you?

[texex]

The Countdown is COOL! COOL! COOL! Gleaner should get one, too.

[Richard Lasker]

Better keep an eye on your water resources. Maybe you haven't noticed that the entire drain-region you are in is extremely dry & hot lately?
Have you sent a sample of the Colorado off to be analyzed for contaminates? The kind of contaminates that “chlorination” doesn’t treat. Can you say: “Cancer”?
And, except for that “great” Colorado water: where is the rest of your state thinking the water of the future is coming from? Clouds?
Good-bye State of Nevada. Hello State of Las Vegas!