Women for Gibbons; Groupies for Porter

Spotted on the ugly campaign website of failed and creepy congressman Jim Gibbons:

Are you a woman with a few available hours per week? Do you have great ideas to share? Would you like to network with other women while being part of an exciting, winning team? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you — join Women for Gibbons.

Social opportunities include working with the campaign staff, networking with fellow women and making a difference in the future direction of our state - for yourself, your family, and your friends. Volunteer opportunities include event representation at candidate forums or community meetings, answering campaign telephones, poll flushing or poll watching, distributing yard signs, phone banking and participating in the exciting 72-Hour Task Force.

Unfortunately, the Gibbons women's outreach effort fails to explain what steps have been taken to assure that there will be no fraternizing with Men for Gibbons, or what penalties might be incurred if caught executing some exciting network opportunities with men instead of women. Punishment includes listening to one of Giblet's plagiarized yet still incomprehensibly delivered speeches, most likely.

Meantime, Nevada's other failed Republican congressman, Jon Porter, has women supporters too. Or at least his band does. But they're not called Women for Porter. They're called "groupies." As we've reported before, Florida amusement Katherine Harris is the self-described "biggest fan" of the Second Amendments, as Porter's bipartisan good-time rock and rollers call themselves. But as usual, you can't believe anything Harris says. There are much bigger congressional fans of Porter's band than Harris, as we learned from Googling around for some pictures of Porter rocking out.

For instance, take Guam's congressional delegate Madeleine Bordallo, a Democrat, and Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Melissa Hart. Porter's band did -- all the way to Iraq, Afghanistan and other points abroad for the band's warapalooza tour over the holidays last year. Here's the entourage in Kuwait:

Hart's in the center (cool jacket!), and Bordallo is second from right. Anyway, The Second Amendments really packed the troops in and, as the kids say, rocked their socks off...

Well, response was polite anyway. It's hard to tell from this picture, but Nevada's congressman is at the left playing his keyboard thingy. Incredibly, there were a couple of empty chairs available. Be that as it may, insiders who, you know, know the band get to stand just offstage.

Now, band followers can be notoriously fickle, flitting from one group of dreamy musicians to the next at the drop of a hat. But not Second Amendments fans. For instance, in July, months after the band returned from its wildly successful tour of countries we invaded and now can't seem to get out of, the group played a "gig" (that's what those hipster band guys call it, a gig) at the Cantina Marina, a place to gnosh and get hammered in D.C.

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Not only have Hart and Bordallo remained loyal to the band. They've picked up noisemakers and joined it. The Nevada congressman, by the way, can be spotted between and behind the band's percussive addition, working out his sophisticated keyboard stylings.

Although Porter does in fact use money from his campaign warchest to party in D.C., it could not be confirmed that he was actually buying drinks for the house at the Cantina Marina.

But that'd be one way to keep a crowd, s'pose.

Comments

Somehow I suspect we will see more of the Kuwait picture and learn more about Ms. Hart.

[TruthToPower]

We also eagerly await more moralizing from Mr. Porter.

[H2H]

http://www.unlvrebelyell.com/article.php?ID=9805

Reaffairms Jim Gibbons commitment to young people.

[Nevada Scandalmonger]

Wow. Just goes to show ya that if Gibbons gets elected, we should all be committed.

[Myrna the Minx]

Damn, the Gleaner goes all crazy and posts three photos. I had to go and put on my sunglasses.

Love how the recruitment effort for Women for Gibbons (thank god its not "Ladies" or I would actually barf, as it is, I only threw up a little in my mouth) centers around "social opportunities." And you can work with actual campaign staff? My god. Do we get to take photos with them? Do I have to pay for an autograph?

[lisa]

It doesn't look like Dawn Gibbons even joined "Women for Gibbons." At least she isn't mentioned and you'd think that she would be in charge of it. But then again, Dawn like to network with people, not just women, and I think she would consider that work, not a "social opportunity."

But my real question, When is the bikini car wash? Or the bake sale? Ohh.... I can't wait!!

[Teresa]

Gibbons is such an old-school pol and kinda sexist, too. So, he wants a ladies' auxillary to do all the scut work? The main perk is working with staff? Be still my heart.
So what is up with Congresspeople Porter and Hart? Did the taxpayers foot the bill for Hart's junket? Did they stay in one of the swank hotels in Kuwait or Army quarters?

What was the point of this article? It's time for someone to find a hobby.