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Published Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 | 3:28 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 | 3:29 p.m.
WASHINGTON -- One notable absence from last week's Republican Governors' Association meeting was that of Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons.
Gibbons' decision not to attend the annual confab was all the more noticeable because two of his potential challengers in next year's Republican primary election showed up. Both Brian Sandoval and Mike Montandon attended.
The governor's office said Gibbons was too busy handling state business to make the trip to this year's event in Austin.
"The business of running the State of Nevada outweighed the need to attend the Republican Governors Association meeting," said spokesman Daniel Burns.
Having would-be governors attend the conference as candidates is not unusual. But what was noteworthy, as one attendee put it, was to see them making the rounds while the incumbent governor was not.
Maybe Gibbons can become competitive again by using Palin's Alaska as a model. He could tax the mining companies like Palin taxed the oil companies, and could charge the federal government to enter/exit their properties in Nevada as a toll so we can become totally dependant upon federal payments. Budget problem solved. Just a new re-rationalization of his core positions. Anyway, who cares, he's electoral toast.
is that little gibbons monkey just plain old lazy???
Turkey of The Year;
John Ensign. Hands down. GOBBLE!
Runner Up;
Gov'ner Gym Gibbons. A Turkey who's had it's head cut off but keeps running around Nevada pretending he ain't dead. GOBBLE GOBBLE!
Second Runner Up;
Oscar "The Grouch" Goodman, the King of Las Vegas
for his outright disdain and unabashed contempt for the Las Vegas homeless population.
GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE!!!!!
"The governor's office said Gibbons was too busy handling state business to make the trip to this year's event in Austin."
The only state business was the business of his divorce.
This State business is so important that they don't know what it is and have no press release. Lets face it, Gibbons anti-tax can only go so far when your personal life and political life are in shambles.