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Jim Gibbons Is America's Worst Governor
By Ken LayneJun 30th 2008 1:43AM
Filed Under:eRepublicans, Featured Stories, Scandal, Ken Layne's Outrage
Have you heard of Governor Jim Gibbons? Unless you live in Nevada, chances are you don't know about this insane doofus and his pathetic, philandering "personal" life -- which is nothing but a very public, very shameful series of alcoholic altercations and battles with his soon-to-be ex-wife Dawn.The hilarious thing about Gibbons is that he has absolutely no "saving grace." He was never a talented politician like Bill Clinton, he has no legislative achievements, his silly speeches are plagiarized, and his smug stupidity is legendary in the Silver State.
The longtime do-nothing congressman won the Nevada governorship after one of the most dismal campaigns in American History, notable only for the story of his drunken rampage against a cocktail waitress in a Las Vegas parking garage weeks before the election. Dingbat Jim is in the news again, just when the political world needs a laugh.
Since his swearing in -- a corrupt and paranoid midnight affair held in his Reno living room -- Governor Gibbons has shown utter ignorance of Nevada governance. Whether it's education or energy, he doesn't understand his own administration's policies. He doesn't even know the people who run his administration, having infamously been unable to name his Turkish-born energy adviser, Hatice Gecol, because she was "Indian."
As a half-dozen major corruption scandals continue to haunt him and the FBI continues to investigate the kickbacks he received from Nevada businessmen, Gibbons has provided non-stop burlesque in the form of his second marriage, to former state legislator Dawn Gibbons.
Dawn now lives in the Governor's Mansion, in Carson City, and won't budge. Gibbons is back at his house in Reno. Their divorce proceedings became public last month, via lurid legal complaints by Dawn, while even more evidence of Drunken Jim's running around was found in hundreds of lewd text messages he sent to the mobile phone of one of his many special lady friends.What can the governor with 20% approval ratings -- lower than George W. Bush! -- do for an encore? Be photographed in the parking lot of the Reno Rodeo canoodling with a woman who, twenty years ago, was naked in Playboy magazine, that's what!
The Nevada Appeal sent someone to the rodeo to take pictures of cowboys and their beloved cows. But in the parking lot, the photographer found a more interesting subject: Jim Gibbons humping on some gal who wasn't his wife, again.
Already despised by both parties in Nevada's legislature thanks to his awful handling of the state's budget nightmare, Gibbons' latest public idiocy could only be made worse by Gibbons' own mouth. This was his bizarre explanation for groping this latest lady in public:
Gibbons explained to reporters that he was just hugging his special lady friend and it certainly wasn't romantic, because if there's anything that "takes the romance out of a friendship, it's being there when her child is born. I held her hand when her child was born."
WTF?
Ken Layne is the managing editor of Wonkette.
Recent Comments
(Page 1 of 2)Greg G3:38AMJun 30th 2008
You don't have to live here! Gibbons is a talking chimp who doesn't have enough sense to pour sand down a rat hole. But who's more stupid? The idiotic, short-sighted, avaricious Nevada voters who chose him over one of the most talented "policy wonk" legislators Nevada ever produced (Dr. Dina Titus) based solely on his one pledge: "No new taxes." Well, fellow Nevadans, you get what you pay for. And we'll be paying for Gibbons for a long time.
Catherine Apslock9:06AMJun 30th 2008
"The hilarious thing about Gibbons is that he has absolutely no "saving grace." He was never a talented politician like Bill Clinton, he has no legislative achievements, his silly speeches are plagiarized,"
HEY KEN LAYNE THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE ELSE I KNOW, SOMEONE NAMED BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT YOU HIPPIE!
kentuckienne10:15AMJun 30th 2008
REPLACE-DEMS-IN-CONGRESS: Please provide specific citations -- including page numbers -- for the quotes that you allege come from Barack Obama's writings. Without them, your comment can only be seen as both false and fear-mongering.
Aram Vartian11:01AMJun 30th 2008
Ah, more thinly-veiled racist rantings from the increasingly desperate anti-Obama crowd. it is fun to watch you guys (and ladies) marginalize yourselves further and further into absolute obscurity.
Just think, in 15 or so years you'll be that grandparent sitting in your worn recliner while your children's children roll their eyes or shift uncomfortably as you spew hatred from a long dead era.
The isolation you feel that day will be your reward.
Bull12:50PMJun 30th 2008
The anti-Obama folks just never tire of making fools out of themselves with their lies and racism. No wonder he's going to win easily. America is sick of these swiftboating morons.
donner_froh1:00PMJun 30th 2008
From the Carson City newspaper article: "ex-Playboy-model, ex-wife of an ex-Reno mayor"
A real Triple-X hottie.
Brenda Chapman5:02PMJun 30th 2008
Give Gibbons a break, yes he is dumb, yes he does dumb things, BUT WE VOTED HIM IN......
REPLACE-DEMS-IN-CONGRESS5:18PMJun 30th 2008
THE DEMS IN CONGRESS “SELECTED” OBAMA — HE WAS NOT “ELECTED” BY THE PEOPLE.
Obama has no experience on any political topic. His foreign experience is vacationing with his family on a beautiful island.
Read Obama’s books. This bi-racial man, who claims to be ‘black’ is a threat to our country.
From ‘Dreams of My Father’: “I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”
From ‘Audacity of Hope’: “I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION.”
Early this year, Obama said: “Don’t tell me that words don’t matter”. His words on various topics keep changing. He has lost all credibility. OBAMA SIMPLY CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
John McCain does have foreign policy experience. In fact, he has more political experience on every topic than the ‘wanna be’.
McCain served our country during the Viet Nam War. He proved he loved our country enough to die for us. He has served in the Senate for 20 years.
Vote McCain in 2008.
jim6:18PMJun 30th 2008
it sounds to me like the nevada governor could have a political future in my state, new jersey. my only question is, 'is he corrupt enough?' we like our politicians both corrupt and incompetent here in jersey, so if he is just one without the other we will not accept him. if he happens to be both, well , send him out here to jersey, he'll have a bright future. as for the obama quotes, they are , in fact, true. you may buy his books and read them for yourself, although i expect once you do, you will make an excuse fot them[him].
Detroit Jimmy7:15PMJun 30th 2008
If he were black and from Detroit, you could name him Kwame Kilpatrick!
P.U.M.A.9:17PMJun 30th 2008
PUMA:
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Obama is the perfect example of the classic politician, (of the worst kind) with the media’s full support. The media has turned a blind eye, to him, because, he is BLACK. The media just may elect him, a man with no credentials for the position. The media and the far left,will say, we finally have a black president. America is not a racist nation, see. America the new symbol for hypocracy. We need to replace dems in Congress.
VOTE McCAIN IN 2008 --- HILLARY IN 2012.
P.U.M.A.9:18PMJun 30th 2008
Obama was "selected" by the DNC and biased media --- not "elected" by the people. We need to replace the dems in Congress.
If you're anti-Obama and your goal is that he isn't elected POTUS, then a McCain supporter should be someone you'd want on-board. If you want Obama defeated, it sure as hell isn't going to happen without McCain supporters.
I pledge not to vote for Barack Obama (now or ever). When it's a question of Party or Country, I choose Country.
I'm sure all Hillary Supporters will be welcomed back to the Party in good standing as soon as they support Sen. Obama for President. I realize it may irritate one or two people when I put it that way. But I'm trying to be realistic about how the Democratic "game" works.
VOTE COUNTRY --- NOT PARTY.
VOTE McCAIN IN 2008.
COUNTRY-NOT-PARTY9:48PMJun 30th 2008
P arty
U nited
M y
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Obama was "selected" by the DNC and biased media --- not "elected" by the people. We need to replace the dems in Congress.
If you're anti-Obama and your goal is that he isn't elected POTUS, then a McCain supporter should be someone you'd want on-board. If you want Obama defeated, it sure as hell isn't going to happen without McCain supporters.
I pledge not to vote for Barack Obama (now or ever). When it's a question of Party or Country, I choose Country.
I'm sure all Hillary Supporters will be welcomed back to the Party in good standing as soon as they support Sen. Obama for President. I realize it may irritate one or two people when I put it that way. But I'm trying to be realistic about how the Democratic "game" works.
VOTE COUNTRY --- NOT PARTY.
VOTE McCAIN IN 2008.
COUNTRY-NOT-PARTY9:49PMJun 30th 2008
P arty
U nited
M y
A $$
Obama was "selected" by the DNC and biased media --- not "elected" by the people. We need to replace the dems in Congress.
If you're anti-Obama and your goal is that he isn't elected POTUS, then a McCain supporter should be someone you'd want on-board. If you want Obama defeated, it sure as hell isn't going to happen without McCain supporters.
I pledge not to vote for Barack Obama (now or ever). When it's a question of Party or Country, I choose Country.
I'm sure all Hillary Supporters will be welcomed back to the Party in good standing as soon as they support Sen. Obama for President. I realize it may irritate one or two people when I put it that way. But I'm trying to be realistic about how the Democratic "game" works.
VOTE COUNTRY --- NOT PARTY.
VOTE McCAIN IN 2008.
ANYBODY-BUT-OBAMA10:00PMJun 30th 2008
U.S. money for Russia is linked to Iran nuclear plant.
Guess who's bill funded this program.... Little Obamas
No wonder the Russians call Obama the CLUELESS PUPPET IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/06/mideast/nuke.php
VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN IN 2008.
abra1:07AMJul 1st 2008
Titus get off his back and let him run things Still running the smear campain .Its over you lost get over it how much did you pay for this article to be posted
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Louie Manno8:03AMJul 1st 2008
Enough with the presidential same old debate on the media… I want to hear more about this dumb ass governor.
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tfitz10171:49AMJun 30th 2008
Well done. I think Nevadans just needed a good laugh when they voted this guy in. Script treatment?