Extramarital affair that nation's worst governor definitely isn't having still isn't news

• Now Canadians are chortling over the worst governor in the nation, too. Oh, our nation. Not their socialized medicine-riddled Iraq invasion-hating nanny state. NationalPost
• Amid growing cries of "vive la feminista" (no one tell Dean Heller), Dawn wins one, gets divorce case moved to Reno (AP), a town where the nation's worst governor might be thought to be having an affair if it hadn't been asserted by his official spokester definitively and in no uncertain terms that the governor is not having an affair.
• That assertion, btw, just makes salaciously crafted wild rumor-mongering about how the governor rekindled a new flame with an old girlfriend all the more reprehensible and irresponsible. So here's the link.
• "Who's Kathy?" asks a commenter on the Reno paper's website after a couple other commenters make reference to the mysterious person who obviously Jim Gibbons couldn't be having an affair with because his spokester says the governor isn't having an affair. Whoever else at Nevada news organizations may find the question of the nation's worst governor's fidelity or lack thereof icky and beneath them, it isn't the web maintenance people. Thankfully.
• Really, there are so many subjects to which one could turn on any given day to underscore how Nevada's governor is the nation's worst. The New York Times, for instance, goes with the hepatitis thing.

Comments

[KidFromVegas]

OMG OMG OMG, those people in Reno are worse than we are! Who says progress hasn't hit Reno? I have a new found respect for them.

The Governor bringing flowers to his mistress' daughter at her high school play... my my, he certainly has come a long way since slamming women up against parking garage walls.

Gleaner you called this... can we impeach him now?

[Judy]

Email to Ben:

Who is Kathy?

[Nevada Scandalmonger]

Um...why are the rumors about Gibby's gal pal posted on a "celebrity" website? Surely that's entirely inappropriate. The celebrity part, I mean.

[shocked]

Eh-Canada; "Nevada newspapers are reporting every possible detail about the split. Two century-old laws appear to be on Mr. Gibbons' side: An 1866 statute stipulates the governor must live at "the seat of government," meaning Carson City."

What is it called in professional journalism, attribution? Haven't seen any for your site regarding the law breaking, Gleaner. MSM are theiving bastards...no honor amoung them.

[Misty]

One more nail for the Governors coffin.

I-Team Exclusive: Washington Scandal Resurfaces in Nevada

KLAS TV-Las Vegas


In this I-Team exclusive, a scandal allegedly covered up five years ago in Washington is about to resurface here in Nevada, and it may embarrass high ranking officials including the governor.

The Channel 8 I-Team has learned that influential republicans are demanding that Governor Jim Gibbons reverse his appointment of Bruce James to head the new S.A.G.E Commission, created by Gibbons to investigate the state's financial woes.

Bruce James is the former head of the U.S. Printing Office. He agreed to serve as chairman of the S.A.G.E. Commission earlier this week. Now, the I-Team has learned that serious allegations have been raised about James by John Mason, the former chairman of the Nevada Republican Party.

Mason has reportedly told the governor to withdraw the appointment of James or else damaging information about James would be made public.

So -- what's the nature of the information? Informed sources tell the I-Team Mason accused James of an incident involving Mason's teenage daughter.

The incident allegedly occurred nearly five years ago when Mason's daughter was a student in Washington, D.C. James lived there with his wife at the time. No criminal charges were filed.

Well-placed sources tell Eyewitness News the White House intervened in the situation, and then Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez asked John Mason to keep the story quiet so it would not be an embarrassment to President Bush.

Mason has told fellow republicans that he kept quiet at the time. However, other prominent Nevadans, including Jim Gibbons, who was serving in Congress at the time, were informed.

Also allegedly told: Senator John Ensign and former governor, Kenny Guinn.

John Mason is reportedly traveling and could not be reached for comment.

But I-Team reporter George Knapp has confirmed the essential details of the story from well placed sources. We will have more information on this breaking story in the days ahead.