Jim Gibbons: The Most Embarrassing Governor in the Universe?

Gibbons’ October Gaffes:

• Jon Ralston TRIES to explain the complicated crony system built by the Gibbons’ but its kind of hard when some of them refuse to admit the obvious. Most people under investigation by the FBI for fraud might try to at least look like they are keeping their hands clean but not the Gibbons’.
• Something about a guitar, state prison funding, and fraud. I’ll let Stanley Scandalmonger explain that one.
• Nevada Governor Gibbons stomped his feet and cried like a three year old over being left out of the U.S. Senate committee hearing on Yucca Mountain this week in D.C., and in classic toddler fashion, when the Senate agreed to coddle Mr. Inconsequential out of pity or sheer exasperation, he throw his toys into the sandbox and stomped off. The state’s Republican budget crises and figuring out how to skimp even more on the state’s embarrassingly low social services and higher ed funding is more important after all. Although it wasn’t last week.
• In a double knee jerk action, Gibbons announced 5% budget cuts in all state agencies save k-12 and prisons and law enforcement agencies before consulting with state leaders in the legislature or the agencies affected. Shortly thereafter, some of the more boisterous said leaders have suggested, no, told Gibbons to, uh, rethink his request and perhaps consult with a few folks first. Some of those leaders are some of the same folks who helped Gibbons get elected. Oh, and Gibbons refuses to release his budget proposal before a secret meeting on the subject.
• After returning from a seemingly unannounced vacation, Gibbons then flew off to Hawaii for a non-essential trip to Hawaii for a Republican governors forum. That’s just one of the many trips that required doubling the governor’s security budget.
• Gibbons went on vacation without telling anyone, and almost no one noticed.

I can’t wait until November to see what the most embarrassing governor in the universe will do. Maybe I should run for Governor? I think Bjorn the Houseboy would make a fine first houseboy. The only person he’s ever worked for is me so he couldn’t get me into trouble—especially now that he’s got his work visa.

Update: Governor Gibbons just told agency matters who disagree with him on his call for 5% budget cuts to “face reality.” Seriously. That’s what he said. I know, its hard not to laugh.

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