Pervus hops, she hops, we all hop to IHOP

As some of you may have noticed, RJ publisher and Stephens Media Bean Counter in Chief Sherm Frederick has a blog — probably as sure a sign as any that the medium has jumped the shark.

It turns out that several days ago (apologies for not checking in daily) on his, sigh, blog, Sherm felt compelled to bring his, shall we say, unique brand of insightful analysis to the extramarital affair that Jim Gibbons definitely is not having and that wouldn't even be news if the governor's wife hadn't called her husband a clueless skank (paraphrasing, but not much) in court documents.

Quoting Sherm now:

"The governor says it ain't true, no how, no where. However there have been reports the two have been seen in public together. And there are whispers that there may be more than one, well, filly in the barn."

Filly? Barn?

Sherm. Pig.

Moving along...

"I have seen the governor in public with women who are not his wife. I have pictures of three of them. Who are they? Inquiring minds want to know."

And then as the result no doubt of pulling a more skilled and already overworked Stephens Media employee off of regular duties to load up some images on Sherm's, sigh, blog, there are mugshots of Nevada AG General Catherine Cortez Masto, Democratic congressional candidate Dina Titus and filthy rich beer heiress and John McCain benefactress Cindy McCain.

Get it? Gibbons has been seen with all those women. And hey, none of them are his wife (much to the profound relief of each of them, with the possible exception of Cindy, who seems to have a thing for scuzzy wife-cheating War Party hypocrites). Ergo and ipso facto, being seen with a woman who isn't the governor's wife doesn't mean doodly squat.

That Sherm — hard to know which is more impressive, his logic or his wit.

Well they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so here's hoping Sherm is flattered by this: The Gleaner also decided to run some pictures of a woman who is not Gov. Pervus A. McSkantard's wife but with whom he was seen. Heck, the only difference is that one of the Gleaner's pictures shows the governor, too.

No, the woman in the accompanying fuzzy photos is not the person for whom the nation's creepiest governor has, as his wife's lawyers put it, an "infatuation."

Rather, according to the Gleaner Northern Nevada operative who provided the photos, and information from independent sources, she is believed to be one Leslie Durant, formerly Leslie Sferrazza, ex-wife of former Reno mayor Pete Sferrazza and a featured model in the September 1989 issue of Playboy magazine.

(And no, those 1989 pictures from Playboy do not appear readily available from Mr. Google. Grow up, people. Jeesh.)

The aforementioned intrepid operative used a cell phone camera to capture the images of the nation's most absurd governor and his friend at a Reno International House of Pancakes a couple Sundays ago (a gubernatorial public appearance first reported in Nevada's premier source for breaking news, the Gleaner comment threads).

So, a Republican governor who has been publicly accused by his wife of having an affair with another woman is photographed with yet another woman who is a former Playboy model, and on a Sunday no less, when Republican governors are supposed to be in church.

In one of his subscription email thingies last week, local columnist Jon Ralston reported that Durant has admittedly been out with Gibbons frequently. Durant also told Ralston that her friendship with the nation's worst governor dates way back to when he was merely Nevada's worst legislator (paraphrasing, there), and that she "does not think he should be scared to be in public."

It wasn't clear whether Durant meant Gibbons shouldn't be "scared to be in public" with her, or just as a general principle.

Anyway, you know what? Sherm's right. Publishing pictures of women with whom the governor has been seen but who aren't his wife is sort of funny.

Comments

Ouch. And I'll be this is going to get even more fun, judging by Knapp's column last week implying Gibbons will soon start spreading salacious rumors about Dawn.

Is this a gubernatorial administration or a pilot for Comedy Central's next series on northern Nevada?

[nvMojo]

How do we get this viagra-popping idiot out of our mansion and the Governor's job?

[The Penguin]

By the way, did anyone read the moronic exchanges between Sherm and his faithful "blog" readers? That last one about some guy named Elfman (Danny?) and his pics of strippers vs. pics of Elizabeth Halverson viewed over breakfast took the cake. By gum, the level of discourse in this backwater has hit another all-time high.

Ralston's Flash thingy is reporting that the Governor and the First Filly have suspended divorce proceedings...

[Susan Nunes]

I wish I could get hold of my scrapbook, which I have stored away, where I have quite a few newspaper clippings of the Leslie-Pete Sferrazza marriage and breakups. I also have the Playboy issue in question, but it is stored away, too.

Leslie made an appearance on Geraldo at around the time she was married to Pete. She was trying to make a name for herself, but it all ended up rather badly.

With her current name of Durant, Leslie has been married at least five times.

[CoyoteMan]

Gibbons is just like Bush. He blunders thru life denying every criminal activity he's been caught in.
Now he's chasing flashy women.

I'd like to remind Dumbass Gibbons that he is a Mormon. A religion that abhors skirt-chasers, divorce, drinking, taking bribes, lying, etc.

What really pisses me off is that no government legal body will move against either Bush or Gibbons for their illegal activities.

Bunch of chicken-shit cowards.