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

Governor Reaches Historic Milestone

Governor Jim Gibbons is officially the most overridden, and thus the most pointless, governor in Nevada history. (RJ,Sun,Sun) But, you knew that.

One thing you have to hand the Gibbers: he really has delivered on that "One Nevada" theme. One Nevada against him.

Has HuffPo Gone Nuts??

So, right towards the end of a "slideshow" of prominent politicians and their paramours, Huffington Post plops the Gibbers and Leslie Durant. (You remember: the Rodeo grope.) (HuffPo)

Give me a break. Including backbencher Jim's half-hearted humping with the likes of Kennedy, Eisenhower, and horndog Clinton is like entering a pig in the Preakness. He'll only be getting out of the gate as the race ends.

Midnight Jim Ups the Ick-Factor

The fun never stops at that Gube divorce trial. The Knappster has filed more tidbits from the scurrilous spectacle:

The identity of the newest witness [at the Gibbers' divorce trial] has been kept quiet for many months because she says she was threatened years ago to keep her mouth shut. Keep her mouth shut about what, you ask? It involves a lot more than midnight booty calls at the home she shared with [rodeo groped] Leslie [Durant]. The witness told the governor's lawyer that she took a lot of road trips with Leslie on behalf of Jim Gibbons, trips to Napa and San Diego and Mexico. During these trips they sometimes hooked up with Gibbons, and other times with some of his business associates.

Threats? Would Gibby and his homes do that? But wait, there's more:

The deposition went on for eight hours, I'm told. When the witness told Gibbon's lawyer that she had already briefed this columnist about the events of long ago, "he changed colors," she says, seemed to have a death grip on his legal pad, tried his best to rattle her, and eventually popped what she thought was a nitroglycerin tablet. (LVCityLife)

Huh. Them vetoes are more just than awkward stagecraft designed to cater to the rabid loonies in the 11-percenter Gube support group. They're keeping us distracted from the Gøøber divorce meltdown.

Screw the nitro. Somebody hand that Gøøber mouthpiece a stiff shot of scotch. Us, too.

Elsewhere: Heh. Double-Heh.

Keep Your Eye on the Gøøblets

Woah. It was almost poetic:

the enigmatic eyes,
the reflexive anti-tax ideology,
the occasional
stretching of the truth,

the awkward stagecraft.

But as always,
it was hard to look away. (Sun)

Creepy, but poetic. But, like Leontin staring at the corpses of the executed, we may soon have to look away, fellow citizens. Jane Ann Morrison reports that the Gibbers may quit the gube race if Sheldon doesn't pony up soon:

Yet he [Gibbers] acknowledged he hasn't raised any money to speak of, just a piddling $50,000 last year. Democrats have raised millions for the next governor's race. As governor, he is forbidden from raising any more until 30 days after the session, and then he'll start fundraising.

With his dismal poll numbers, even before he turned into Governor No with his red veto stamp, what happens if contributors shut him out and refuse to contribute to an unpopular lame-duck governor?

"Then you have to deal with that," Gibbons said. "I'll make those determinations as I go along. I don't think that will be the case, but if it is the case, then we'll have to sit back and think about do we really want to pursue this and do we really want to struggle with limited resources to try and win this."

It's the first time I've heard him give himself wiggle room to change his mind about running. (RJ)

Er, win WHAT? The opportunity to not govern for a second term? Win or lose, it's all pretty much the same, ain't it?

Tho, we might have a shot at sitting through the divorce of Midnight Jim from that mystery MILF who's been a camp follower on the Gibbons-Fatigue tour. Ain't that worth a second term?

And it looks like Gibbons is on his way to a new record: the most overridden Gube in Nevada history. (RJ) Well, I suppose he can stick that on the résumé he'll be sending out to the airlines next year. "This is your pilot speaking. I was the most overridden Gube in Nevada history! Buckle up!"

Veto Vision

No, them ain't no golden tablets in the Prophet of Doom's sweaty, waitress-smacking paws, but vetoed bills, millions and millions of vetoed bills. (Fox5,RJ,Sun) In the background is a peek into the Gøøber's myopic "vision" of post-Gibbers Nevada.

Flappin' in the coal-smoke tainted winds of despair and failure blowing across what's left of Carson, is an inane banner nailed to the ruins of the capital, its message unintelligible to the uneducated "Veto Youth" gangs, products of Gibbon's educational reforms, roaming the streets seeking some lewdie horrorshow with the droogs.

Elsewhere: Gibbers is No. 2.

[UPDATE: Let the overriding commence! (RJ)]

Even Neil Cavuto Has Gibbons Fatigue

So Gibbers spurned a meet and greet with the prez in order to get some face time on Fox. All fine and good, and even Neil Cavuto paraded the Gube in front of the drooling Bushtards still watching the fading network--twice.

However, in that second go, even Neil seemed a little confused about what goes on behind Dr. Nø's glassy stare:

GIBBONS: You know, I — I'm shocked that a president would make this remark [about Vegas, yada, yada] at all. He didn't say anything about Orlando, Honolulu, Chicago, or any other major convention city.

So, offering me a momentary handshake and a grin isn't going to change what he said. We need to sit down. We need to be able to talk about this. We need to be able to have him perhaps make an apology to the people of Nevada and encourage...

CAVUTO: Then, tell him that. I guess the argument the White House was raising today — and Robert Gibbs had a presser on this — or addressed the issue — talk to the big guy about it.

This is Robert Gibbs from just a little while ago, Governor.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I would suggest that if the governor wants — has a specific point that he'd like to make to the president of the United States, he's landing in a few hours in Las Vegas, and, apparently, has been invited to make that case.

Again, I — I — I'm having trouble reconciling the actions of — of the governor.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CAVUTO: Fairly or not, Governor, they're making you out to be a baby. That's what it looked like.

GIBBONS: Well, Neil, let me — let me correct what he's saying. I have been at these arrivals of presidents, when they come in on their Air Force One airplanes. You're standing at the bottom of the ladder. You get about three seconds. You say, "Hello, Mr. President. Nice to have you in Nevada. Welcome here."

I'm not interested in that.

CAVUTO: Right, that's protocol, right, a governor greets a president of either party...

GIBBONS: Yes, a handshake and a hello...

CAVUTO: ... as the official greeter, right?

Go ahead.

GIBBONS: Yes, a handshake and a hello from the president isn't going to correct this problem.

CAVUTO: So, if you were to have greeted him at the airport today when he arrives — and I know you're not going to do that — in those few seconds, what would you have said, like, "Hey, thanks a lot for nothing," or what?

GIBBONS: Well, I would have asked him, in light of the economic conditions of our state, for him to retract that reckless statement about Las Vegas and make a public statement supporting business and tourism and travel to Las Vegas. (FauxNews)

Er. Ah. So, why didn't he? Why didn't he meet the prez and say all that? It only took 30 seconds on Cavuto, so he could have said it at the airport, right? But, not in Gibbersland, apparently.

Don't miss the bit where Gibbers' admits he has no idea how much of the Vegas downturn can be attributed to any remark about bailed out a-holes spending tax dollars on pointless parties in Vegas versus the economic downturn.

And while I'm channeling the Gøøber and "borrowing" other folks' stuff:

As the remainder of the bills enacted and sent to the Governor await disposition, it is readily apparent, and has been so since the 2007 veto of AB 396, that those bills limiting the power of the powerful - or, even holding them accountable will be almost certain candidates for the Governor's Veto Pen. And, any increase in any fee no matter how necessary, no matter how small, no matter how desireable will be vetoed even if the increase is 'potential.' And, there will be "no new taxes" which in these times really means we will be getting fewer public services.

But, that's what the Gibbons' philosophy is all about. Reduce government services and the protections of government (from the powerful elites and the established authorities) and people will complain about taxes paid for little or no service. The more they complain, the less willing they will be to pay. When they are unwilling to pay anything, then the Have's Have Won. After all, in Gibbons' world the role of government is to protect the powerful not serve the public. (DB)

Keep Those Cards and Letters Coming, Kids!

 
So, the Gube has vetoed the domestic partner's bill, and adds insult to injury by telling the folks he thinks are sub-human creatures undeserving of equal protection under the law that they aren't really "undeserving." (DB,VT&S,Sun,Sun,Myth) Actions speak louder than words, of course, except in the Gube's small mind.

But, now it's time for another override, and here are a few people you can talk to about changing their vote against the bill:

In the Senate, send a line to democrats Terry Care and John Lee, who shoulda known better.

 

John Lee

(Wk) 702-647-3550
(LCB) 775-684-1424
(Home) 702-258-5447
(Fax) 702-647-0951
(EMail) jlee@sen.state.nv.us

Terry Care

(LCB) 775-684-6503
(Fax) 702-436-9298
(EMail) tcare@sen.state.nv.us

And here's a couple of Dems from the Assembly who should know better:

Mo Denis

(LCB) 775-684-8583
(Home) 702-657-6857
Cell) 702-743-3571
(EMail) mdenis@asm.state.nv.us

Marilyn Kirkpatrick

(LCB) 775-684-8509
(Home) 702-655-0332
(Cell) 702-767-1315
(EMail) mkirkpatrick@asm.state.nv.us

Shoutin' Good Gøøblets

• Another stop on the Gibbons Fatigue tour disintegrates into a shouting match. (KLAS,RGJ) Ely folk, deep in Gibbons' Country, get to enjoy the Gube at his most childish. Yet, somehow, the Las Vegas TeeVee crew missed the Incline Village tirade, as the Guv continues honing his Don Rickles-Michael Richards shtick for the campaign.
• The Legislature proposes. The Gøøb disposes. The Legislature disposes the gøøb disposin'. (AP)
• The State Supreme court disposes of government ethics. (AP,VT&S) Well, I suppose we all knew that. It's very helpful for the SSCoN to come right out and say it, tho. Clears up a lot of misunderstandings we've been laboring under. Now, if only they'd outlaw campaign finance reporting, since the reason for its existence tends to confuse us, too.
• Now there's a poorly considered choice of words. Gibbons says he's "sticking to his guns" on vetoing the domestic partner bill. (KVBC) Now, would that be his new guns, or his 1993 guns, or rather, a letter in which Gibber's pens: "It is my firm belief that we, as Nevadans, need to reassess the integrity of our society and ask ourselves whether many of the statues [sic] and ordinances meant to protect society from unresponsible [sic] behavior are in the best ultimate interest of a secular democracy. By this, it is meant that everyone's personal and religious beliefs are the foundation of all human dignity." But wait, there's more. "While I personally abhor homosexual conduct, either in public or private, my religion also directs that I not hold any prejudices against another person. Although our own individual religious beliefs may vary, it is my opinion that government does not belong in our private lives. The issue of how I conduct my life will be judged by God, not man. With this in mind, I have decided to support the elimination [of Nevada's sodomy] law."
• Yes, I know. So many questions. Like, which religion would that be? And, if it's a secular democracy, why did he want to put the ten commandments in every Nevada classroom? And, would he really abhor lesbian MILFs, if they let him walk them to their car and liked playing with blackberries? And, poor fellow, he's gonna be judged by that God that likes plural marriages, not plural divorces!
• Gube switched guns on furloughs, too, being in favor of furloughs for state workers before he was agin' em. Two whole weeks later. (KLAS)
• Oh, well. He's had trouble with guns before, too.
• Gibbons tells 100 hapless Fallon residents that he's only cutting 2.6% out of the K-12 budget. Now does that count what the Legislature stuck back in, or not?

The Fuse Is Lit, Baby!!

 
Apparently that bomb whose fuse State Senator Warren Hardy claimed had been lit the other day was an Ethics Bomb. All of the sudden, state Republicans, who never had shown any inclination towards being ethical, can't get enough of the stuff.

Mr. Hardy himself has decided his connections to various contractors and builders, which never seemed to be a hindrance to him before, now make it unethical for him to continue budget negotiations. Although Mr. Hardy claims Democrats threatened him with the ethics complaint, something not new to the Senator this session by the way, it was Republican operatives who threatened Bill Raggio with a similar complaint, perhaps in the hopes of delaying votes on the budget until the gøøb can step in and veto everything without giving the Legislature a chance for an override. (Sun)

Currently Mr. Raggio seems content to cave to threats from a laid-off, career-ending Gibbons crony, while Steven Horsford works to make the whole situation even more grotesque by pushing legislation waving all questions about conflict of interest so that all legislators can vote on tax increases. (INP)

All of this is unsurprising. Ethics is just another victim of the Gøøber's intransigence and incompetence throughout the budget "process."

Elsewhere: the Gube seems upset when the Reno Mayor tells the truth. (RGJ,INP) In the process, he tells those notoriously fickle Washoe voters that they are idiots. (Sun) The Gøøb seems to be adopting a Don Rickles' campaign strategy wherein he insults the electorate into voting for him.

Oh, and Gibbons has a new to-do list out.

[UPDATE: Oh, yeah, Mark Amodei is a two-faced amoral twit, in case you forgot. (VT&S)]

FoxNews Considers the Gøøber An Exclusive??

The Gube took the Gibbons Fatigue tour national today with an appearance on that dying cable channel called FoxNews.

Yep, Gibbons finally found his audience: crusty old testosterone burned-out Obama haters.

Forget Ensign. It looks like Republicans have found a presidential candidate truly worthy of them.

Gibbons 2012!

[UPDATE:

Pretty entertaining. I am a Nevadan, and amazed that Gov. Gibbons has, with a single press release, isolated Ralston, our Martini Mayor, and Bulging-Eyed-Crazy tax whack Jim Rogers by themselves in a political corner. These are the three people most identified with the tax-hikes-at-any-economic-cost extremism that a recent Review Journal poll showed on the short end of a 2-1 opinion poll. If Nevada's socialists aren't careful, they're going to eclipse "daytime soaps" and get Gibbons re-elected on the basis of his policies! 

--Bob Beers (LAT)

Funny. Bobbo didn't mention that other poll.

From Nevada Dems:

Democrats in the state legislature are hard at work trying to
preserve essential services like education and hospitals.

Meanwhile, what's at the top of Gov. Jim Gibbons' priority list
during the final days of one of the most important legislatives
sessions in our state's history? Phoning up Fox News to pick
political fights he knows he can't win.

Rather than reaching across the aisle to craft a budget that
works for all Nevadans, as the state legislature is doing, or
even using his 5 minutes of national Fox fame to encourage
Americans to visit the great State of Nevada, he chose to take
pot shots at Pres. Barack Obama. While Nevadans are busy worrying
about their jobs and their mortgages and whether their children
are getting a quality education, Jim Gibbons is busy worrying
about scoring political points against a president Nevadans
overwhelmingly elected. He's worrying about and nabbing headlines
in the hopes of distracting from his dismal approval ratings,
personal scandals and utter failure as a governor.  It's Jim
Gibbons who should be ashamed of himself.

Send Gov. Gibbons his favorite form of communication - a text
message [http://www.americasworstgovernor.com] - and tell him
Nevadans deserve better. Text "get 2 work" here
[http://www.americasworstgovernor.com].

After all, as Jim Gibbons would say, the people of the state of
Nevada deserve a governor who works for them and not against
them. Or one who works at all. ]