Nevada’s Governor Gibbons Sucks
Because I’m going to BlogHer and really wanted to make sure that everyone is aware of Governor Gibbons latest fraud upon the people of Nevada, I am posting a long quote from the Gleaners excellent post our ridiculously embarrassing, greedy, sneaky, clueless, and guilty governor:
First, it’s hard to believe that anyone, and certainly not discriminating well-informed opinion leaders who constitute the Gleaner’s readership, would doubt that this whole sordid turn of events is anything other than a full-on scam. But just in case, there’s the math. There is no way that grazing leases on the 40 acres could have been genuinely and legitimately worth $1,000, let alone the more than $5,000 Gibbons was paid. Gibbons absolutely positively should not have qualified for the much smaller tax bill. Period.
Second, assuming the checks Whitehead wrote Gibbons were cashed, the total value to Gibbons of this … hmm, what’s the word? … oh yeah, scam was nearly $11,000 — the $5,700 his crony Whitehead gave him, and the $5,000 in taxes that Gibbons evaded.
And third, whatever shape is taken by the criminal investigation — whether it’s the Elko County DA probing the deliberate manufacture of a phony transaction to avoid a tax bill, or the state AG examining Gibbons illegally using the influence of his office for personal financial gain, etc. — this latest scandal is, at bottom, about crass, base, crude personal enrichment.
But this con didn’t take place on a cruise ship or in a congressional committee in Washington amid contested allegations and the hidden terms of a shadowy deal with a defense contractor. It went down in Elko, Nevada, for all his most ardent erstwhile political supporters to see.
Read the entire post. Any defense by Gibbons supporters is just pretense for sucking up–I don’t know to what–but sucking up none-the-less. There isn’t a shred of integrity in sight of this guy. We passed embarrassing years ago.
Oh, and he’s also a big fat whiner. And what does identity of the leaker have to do with the fact that the governor worked the system in a despicable manner? It’s hard to go any lower, but I’m sure Gibbons will find a way.
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It’s easy for you to sit back and judge. Hows about you step up and take over for the weekend so I can head out to Wendover to meet my peeps from Salt Lake and you run the state for a few days instead of running off to some lame internet toucheyfeeliefest?
Sheesh, everyone is a freaking critic.
-M
And so goes Elko, so goes the nation. Have fun with your fellow blogHERS.
I am answering your comment AS IF you were Gibbons:
First, let me just take you to task for making the assumption that BlogHer is a “lame toucyfeeliefest” just because its for and by women. I just attended a session for the Oped Project that included Jennifer Pozner and Katie Orenstein. Look ‘em up. They’re doing more important stuff than you ever will.
Second, if you would do your job, I wouldn’t be ab le to be such a “freaking critic”
Reno really does suck. Any place that makes its money off old people pissing their pension checks away in nasty dark casinos, legal prostitution, and cheap liquor deserves every negative comment found here. Who in their right mind would want to live in this toilet? The air is bad most of the year, the losers hanging around downtown – just get me outta this H____ hole.