Gibbons helps another woman find her truck

Oh look, it's Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons doing one of his favorite things -- being chivalrous to a woman who isn't his wife in a parking lot.

The Carson City paper ran this and other photos of the nation's worst governor and September 1989 playmate Leslie Durant hanging and kanoodling at the rodeo the other day. The photos were taken by Brad Horn, who gets a Gleaner shout-out for having the good sense to realize that stalking the nation's creepiest governor was a much better use of his time and photographic talent than getting shots of grown men forcing terrified baby cows into bondage while Republican voters looked on approvingly.

The paper's photos of course are not the first of Gibbons and Durant together -- those were published in the lowly Gleaner a few weeks back. But whereas imagery of the couple provided by a Gleaner operative merely showed the governor looking like an idiot in the IHOP, the new photos show him exhibiting public demonstrations of affection.

And all on the up-and-up, or at least that's what the nation's oddest governor told the Carson City paper:

“She was upset, crying,” he said during a quick hallway interview with our reporter, who’d been trying to get a comment from the governor or his staff for two days. “She couldn’t get her breath. I put my arms around her.”

Such gallantry. But then, as Gibbons told Nevadans after helping Chrissy Mazzeo in a parking lot, "my reputation means everything to me."

And to all you cynics and Gibbons haters out there, well, if you stop and think for a minute, you'll realize that the description of a distraught woman in need of comfort is perhaps the most credible thing that the philandering imbecile Gibbons has said in months. If you had agreed to voluntarily see Jim Gibbons socially and repeatedly, and then held hands with him and let him hug on you and stuff in public, wouldn't you be "upset, crying" too?

It is in that light that Sig Rogich, currently a beloved and trusted adviser to both Jim Gibbons and John McCain, is all the more admirable. Has Rogich been photographed upset and crying and in need of hugs? On the contrary. He was photographed working feverishly to divert the state and it's media's attention away from his client's hilarious personal life through a needless sham of a special legislative session. Which started Friday, by the way, in the event that anyone has fallen for the Rogich sleight-of-hand and actually cares.

Comments

[texexnv@gmail.com]

Isn't that a Ban-Lon shirt? Jeez...haven't seen one of those in 40 years.

[benny]

hmmmm, when a woman hugs a guy around the waist isn't that a romantic gesture versus arms around the shoulders? or maybe she was all upset by watching "grown men forcing terrified baby cows into bondage while Republican voters looked on approvingly"?

Whatever, yet one more lie from the pathological one! BTW, story is front and center at talkingpoitsmemo.

While Nevada implodes the Gov Hugs!

[Scorpiogal]

I wonder if Gibbers has the acid washed denim to match that outlet mall shirt?

Durant needs her roots done but Sig's hair is a hot mess.

Nevada burns while Gov knoodles.

[texexnv@gmail.com]

I'm sure the ever alert Gleanerwan will catch this but just in case....

The Gov. of Louisiana has approved chemical castration for sex offenders...hmm... maybe we can try the program out in this state starting with Pervy and see if it works. If nothing else, Pervy can then text his doctor about the result.

[temujin... khan of the yakka mongols]

my dear sons and daughters of the desert
methinks this brave warrior of a governor flew too many missions without his oxygen mask on...
sincerly
temujin
khan of the yakka mongols

[texexnv@gmail.com]

Did everybody else catch the absolutely bizarre comment about "friendship's being there when her child is born. I held her hand when her child was born."

This raises the questions of the child's blood line and was it born before or after taking the oath of Mansion?

[NAT ESQ]

...well, texex, normally the father is the one in the delivery room holding the hand of the mother while she delivers the baby.....COW BELLS BATMAN! THE FATHER HOLDS THE HAND! WHO IS THE DADDY TO THIS 44 YEAR OLD WOMEN'S CHILD?! OH, GOVERNOR!

[David]

What the heck is the Sigmeister doing in that photo? He looks like he's leaning down into a pram. Good lord, has Gibbons been present at yet *another* birth?

[texexnv@gmail.com]

Exactamundo, Nat! Pick a prize from the top shelf.

[Michael Green]

He was comforting her by hugging her. He was helping Chrissy Mazzeo find her car. I should be safe, but I hope that all Nevada women in a time of crisis avoid looking to the Gibber-Grabber for comfort. Just for their own safety.

[The Penguin]

What is truly telling in the pics from the rodeo is that, here, you have the governor of Nevada -- one of only 50 people in the entire country who is a governor, so it's a select few of us -- walking through a crowded rodeo...and nobody is paying a damn bit of attention to him. And all this time, I thought NORM! was the most irrelevant Nevadan.

[Dude]

As I said, the highly trained geologist knows how to party - Ban-lon stylee.

[Disgusted]

I wonder what six time married Mrs. Leslie Sellers-Cord-Sferrazza-Sferrazza-Ford-Slusser-Durant is hoping to be offered from the National Inquirer and/or Play Boy for another photo spread? Anything to get her name and face in the media?

I find it hard to believe that they just “bumped” into each other. They were seen Thursday, June 19, 2008 at the Sparks Farmer’s Market holding hands. Many people saw them, as this was a very public event. Was also that bumping into each other?

Jim and Leslie were also seen (and photographed) at Relay for Life held at the Bishop Manogue High School in Reno May 31, 2008. They were “all over each other” there as well. There is at least one photograph showing her hand on his rear end. Does a married woman and a married man act that that, in public, when they are “just friends”?

In reference to Jim Gibbons being there holding her hand at the birth of her child, that is not true. Jim may have there the next day with his wife, Dawn, but he was not present at the birth of her child.

[Lilly]

Thank goodness he hasn't explained his "hobbies" to a bunch of 4th graders.

[temujin... khan of the yakka mongols]

my dear sons and daughters of the desert
methinks if this governor were impeached or driven from office....he would make an excellant parking valet.....?
sincerly
temujin khan

[Pedro]

"my dear sons and daughters of the desert
methinks if this governor were impeached or driven from office....he would make an excellant parking valet.....?
sincerly
temujin khan"

Yeah--that was pretty retarded the first time around--no improvement this time either.

[happykid]

This man is a major creep and mentally unstable. He must be legally removed from office, before he does permanent damage to the Silver State.