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Published Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 | 1:39 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 | 2:15 p.m.
Dawn Gibbons appears by her husband's side during an October 2006 news conference.
Sen. Harry Reid
Sharron Angle
Republican former First Lady Dawn Gibbons said today that she supports Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid because of his diligence and hard work, not because she wants to spite her Republican ex-husband, Gov. Jim Gibbons, who she said cheated on her and who has been a frequent Reid critic.
"I've known Harry Reid for a long time," Dawn Gibbons said today during an endorsement event at UNLV. "He's a strong advocate and a strong voice -- someone we need in these trying times."
Gibbons also noted that Reid is a good husband to his wife Landra and calls his kids daily.
But Gibbons, a former state assemblywoman, refused to say whether she had ever before voted for Reid -- a likely indication that she hadn't. First, she said it was nobody's business. Then, she said she couldn't remember. Finally, she said she forgot whom Reid ran against.
Gibbons also wouldn't say whom she will support in the upcoming gubernatorial and congressional races.
"This is not about that," she said. "This is about Harry Reid."
Taking a page right out of Reid's playbook, Gibbons criticized Reid's Republican opponent Sharron Angle, accusing her of having an "extreme and dangerous" policy on education.
During the 15-minute event, Gibbons said the words "extreme and dangerous" four times. Students who have benefited from government grants and scholarships and spoke with Gibbons to lend their support to Reid repeated the phrase another four times.
It's the exact description Reid has tried to peg Angle with in dozens of commercials, statements and news releases.
Gibbons ran against Angle in 2006 in a three-way congressional primary. Both women lost.
Still, Gibbons wouldn't go as far as to say that Angle is unfit to serve in the Senate. Gibbons called her a friend, but then in the next breath denounced her as "uncompassionate."
Angle spokesman Jerry Stacy denied that Angle's positions are extreme.
Gibbons, who first said last year that she would support Reid, insisted her endorsement has nothing to do with her estranged relationship with her ex-husband, Nevada's Republican governor.
The Gibbons' divorce was finalized in July after a contentious two years during which Dawn Gibbons accused her husband of multiple affairs and Jim Gibbons called his wife a "an enraged ferret in a phone booth."
Jim Gibbons has accused Reid of "cooking the books," sponsoring irresponsible legislation and putting his national political ambitions ahead of Nevada.
One week ago, it was announced that Dawn Gibbons was appointed as Director of Community Relations for Sunbelt Communications Company. Today, Dawn Gibbons starts stumping for Harry Reid. Looks like Dawn found herself a new sugar daddy.
Harry has got Dawn and the New Orleans Mayor carrying his water today. He even made sure they both said "extreme and dangerous" over & over. Both have been paid off. (The Louisiana Purchase and Dawn's new job) If you want to get to the root of corruption, it's easy; just follow the money trail.
And by the way, I would like to thank Dawn & the New Orleans Mayor so much for telling me who to vote for today. I could have never figured it out on my own.
gbigs,
When Angle is sitting in a dark room by herself on election night will you be there to comfort her? Don't expect her to do anything for you though, that is not her job.
Yes, many times things in this country have been done that did not pan out well. They are done because the American public wants and asks for them.
The American public needs to be careful what they ask for because when they get it things don't always work out.
Now who was it that started these wars we are paying for? ;-)
It's an easy call -- sane or insane.
Dawn was always the better, smarter half to the idiotic, soon-to-be-unemployed governor.
He uses the very words that describe himself to slander Dawn Gibbons. The truth is no one more bitter and leading a smaller life than Rev. gfigs.
He's rants 24/7, an angry, emotionally unstable teabagger gone wild. Rev. gpgis is even nuttier than Angle, which doesn't even seem possible.
The war is lost. It's a good day we only lost 37,000 jobs. He's perfect for the job because he's light-skinned and can use a negro dialect when he wants to. We need to rescind....errr....give a lot of benefits and citizenship to these anchor babies. I think each one of those statements makes it in the "extreme hall of fame."
hey monkey boy gibbons...
how pathetic are you...
a sitting governor...
and your ex wife has more political cache than you...
hee hee hee...
hoo hoo hoo...
haa haa haa...
Can you imagine... actually, you don't need to have an imagination...
If President Obama said:
"It's not my job to create jobs".
"The unemployed are spoiled".
"I would have never saved CityCenter"
"I want to eliminate the Department of Education"
"I want to eliminate social security".
The right wing would be all over it like flies on sh**.
Right! And I'm an astronaut scheduled for the next flight to Mars.
Elect Elmer Fudd. Elect Wayne Newton. Elect the current comedian at the club of your choice or the Aflac duck.
Anybody but that back room dealing, bribe paying, dishonest, left wing lap dog, water boy Harry Reid.
Do it for the U.S. We don't want Reid as Majority Leader in the Senate where he can do real damage to the country. A card board cut out of your neighbor that never votes would be a vastly superior choice. At least it couldn't make more back room deals, bribes, lie, carry the far lefts water and vote for every kill America socialist big spending nanny state whack job proposal that comes along.
Reids voting record proves he has and he will.
I was hoping Dawn Gibbons would not support Angle, she is as dirty as her husband. It's very odd though that she just got a job influenced by Reid right before her endorsement. If I were the Sun or the rest of the liberals I wouldn't be happy about posting this post, it only hurts your candidate.
Say it ain't so, gbigs. 'Cause it isn't.
Hope them Koch boys are payin' you well for sellin' your soul like this, hateist.
She has seen Angle at work, and doesn't like what she sees apparently. Why am I not surprised? Most of the people in the Nevada Legislature feel the same about this idiot Angle!
Maybe she can afford six more years of Reid? Most of us can't, not any Reid for that matter...
Like Arizona, Nevada has a very large population of illegal immigrant households that have been continuously nibbling at the public welfare programs and across the rest across the country. Whereas, Arizona's Governor Jan Brewer along with state Senator Russell Peirce have enacted laws such as SB 1070, to try to inhibit the illegal immigration invasion. The omnibus Consolidated Appropriations bill includes a little-known provision that guts the major provisions of the Secure Fence Act of 2006. This provision -- buried on page 123 of Division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act. It is my analysis that if the 2006 Secure Fence act had not been amended, to a single fence the growing occupancy of illegal aliens would not have happened to the 18 and up population. Sen. Reid has done nothing to safeguard his state from being overrun by illegal alien families working in the entertainment and service industries. With 15 million American workers jobless nationwide, why hasn't read made E-Verify permanent?
Senator Reid voted--YES--on Comprehensive Immigration Reform--AMNESTY.(Bill S.1639 ; on Jun 28, 2007) Voted--NO--on declaring English as the official language of the US Government (Bill S.Amdt.1151 to S.1348 ; on Jun 6, 2007) Voted--NO--on building a Fence along the Mexican Border (Bill H R 6061 ; on Sep 29, 2006) Voting--YES--establishes a guest worker program with a path to citizenship for illegal aliens who have worked in the US for 5 years. ( Bill S. 2611 ; vote number 2006-157 on May 25, 2006) Voted--YES--on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security ( Bill S.Amdt.3985 to S.2611 ; vote number 2006-130 on May 18, 2006 )Voted--Yes--on giving Guest Workers a path to citizenship.( Bill S.Amdt.3969 to S.2611 ; on May 18, 2006) Voted--YES--on allowing more foreign workers into the US for farm work ( Bill S.2260 ; on Jul 23, 1998)
Voted--NO--on limiting welfare to Immigrants ( Bill S.947 ; on Jun 24, 1997 ) Reid has an open border immigration record with NumberUSA and Fair and needs to be recognized as a danger to America. Like so many other Liberal Democrats they are selling themselves for votes in the coming midterm election. Like all incumbents' governors, mayors and elected official he and those advocating Amnesty and a trillion dollar welfare nightmare for taxpayers, needs to be levered from his nice comfy seat in the Senate.
Call your Senator or Representative at 202-224-3121.and inform them you're watching them on illegal immigration. We better be on our toes in November, because in large illegal alien states will violate the law and vote for pro-amnesty lawmakers.
Senator Harry Reid must be furtively looking over his shoulder at the downfall of the entrenched incumbents in Congress.Not looking out for the American peoples interest , will also be his fate. His hard-line push for Amnesty has riled the majority of Americans and now he to must pay the "Piper?" Is 2010 shaping up to be an Anti-Incumbent, Anti-Liberal or Anti-Democratic year, beginning with lost seat of Martha Coakley in Massachusetts to Scott Brown? Whose is next on the incumbent black list for Ditching? Coming up in in 13 days is the Delaware battle between the Republican Mike Castle unseated for 15 years and the candidate Christine O'Donnell supported financially the Tea Party Express. Joe Miller's the surprise upset winner of the Republican Senate primary in Alaska, supported by the Tea Party Express and Sarah Palin. Is this the year of anti-tax and spend? Smaller government and returning the power back to each state and THE PEOPLE..
Is this the genesis of politicians working for "The people" again and not for the special interests and open border lobbyists? Only time will tell and the final results is the November midterm elections? As for a reduction in the illegal alien population, I don't believe it for one minute? NOR DOES ANYBODY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND BELIEVE IT...? The Obama Czars has shown there true colors, that illegal immigration is a great way to collect votes in the future by pacifying large minority groups. Now ICE is openly releasing illegal aliens back onto Main Street. Allowing people to go free is an outrageous award for entering America illegally and its effect will bring in more nationals looking for government benefits.
Perhaps not the best person to be witted against Sen. Harry Reid, but Candidate Sharron Angle did NOT dismantle E-Verify, illegal worker verification system, implemented by the Social Security administration and Homeland security databases. Reid is also a confirmed Pro-Amnesty lawmaker, when his own state of Nevada is suffering chronic unemployment and a withering state deficit.
Tonyman...
HEY TONYMAN...
Your post is great, and bears repeating;
Can you imagine... actually, you don't need to have an imagination...
If President Obama said:
"It's not my job to create jobs".
"The unemployed are spoiled".
"I would have never saved CityCenter"
"I want to eliminate the Department of Education"
"I want to eliminate social security".
The NutJobs would go... well, NUTS!!!
Imagine, if you will, if our own SITTING SENATOR,
John Ensign, said those things...
The 3 people that still support him would BAIL!
(probably 4; his mom & dad, sherm, and sgtrock.)
"Because you "hate Harry" is NOT A LEGITIMATE REASON to vote for a full-blown KOOK.
"On Election Day, I will by God bite of my nose to spite my face!"
Is that REASONABLE???
Dawn Gibbons is not the first, nor will she be the last, Republican to say, "Crazy" Angle is JUST TO EXTREME, and DANGEROUS" to be put in the United States Senate.
Let her run as Glen Beck's VP candidate on the "God Squad" ticket in 2012. Those 2 NutJobs deserve the heck out of each other. They are BOTH LOONEY TUNES!!!
The country I fought hard to create has become a $#ithole thanks to all of you dumb people out there who dont have the brains to vote for good people who run. Keep being blindsided by the self serving media. Only babies need to be spoonfed. Why you babies are struggling and slanging baby names at each other for their ideas, your elected officials and the majority of the ones running to fleece you are getting richer by the second. LOL. ONLY in America.
I hear yall are getting health care reform money from the feds that your governor has applied for, while suing the feds over the health care bill. Seems that your gov. wants it both ways. Meanwhile, Angle keeps changing her mind about what it is exactly that she said. And her husband is collecting fed money with a clear conscience . . . so does the word hypocrisy ring a bell?
Rev. pwigs wrote @ 2:10 pm
"Dawn Gibbons is a bitter person... small people live small lives."
________
I called him out:
"pwigs uses the very words that describe himself -- to slander Dawn Gibbons. The truth is no one is more bitter and leading a smaller life than Rev. gfigs.
He's rants 24/7, an angry, emotionally unstable teabagger gone wild. Rev. gpgis is nuttier than Angle, which doesn't even seem possible."
_____________
So I called his dumba** out but no response, just crickets, because he knows it's true. He's just a bitter social outcast who spends 18 hours a day barfing up hateful trash.
When I read these post it is easy to see just how little people know how our government is ran. They spout bill and amendments without any consideration to the treaties and agreements that were behind this legislation, whether we like it or not.
There has been a lot of time and consideration behind the majority of legislation that everybody is willing to criticize even if it does or does not suit their whims or needs at the present time. Sometimes this has not been accomplished for the well being of most U S taxpayers today. Most these legislation's were enacted when conditions were a lot different. It will take time to get them corrected.
It is easy to criticize the actions of our representatives in Washington and elected officials in Nevada but there is a lot work getting a bill or change in law through the legislature, local or national level.
It seems a lot of people think this all happened in the last 18 months while in fact it has taken decades to get there.
If you do not like the way things are going vote for the people who will make the changes you want.
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Speaking of Harry Mangle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyDOAmJYF...
Thank you, Dawn Gibbons, for your support of
Harry Reid.
Every day, more and more moderate republicans
are supporting Harry Reid.
The great Wayne Newton also supports
Harry Reid. Thanks, Mr. Las Vegas.
We Nevadans are lucky to have Harry Reid as
our Senator and Majority Leader.
SAVE OUR COUNTRY AND SOCIAL SECURITY,
VOTE HARRY REID.
Dawn is obviously the "Gibbons" with the brains.........dumped ol' Jimbo, and tells Angle to take a hike.
Vote Reid !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The fact of all this is the legacy of the Bush administration, no matter how you spin it.
The day the Bush administration took over from President Bill Clinton in 2001, America enjoyed a $236 billion budget surplus -- with a projected 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. When the Bush administration left office, it handed President Obama a $1.3 trillion deficit -- and projected shortfalls of $8 trillion for the next decade. Which we now can see that was very conservative estimate.
The point that it was Bush and the Republicants, not Obama, who got the country in a financial mess. Bush approved big-ticket items during his tenure that included tax cuts, a new prescription drug benefit for the elderly, and the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which allowed the government to spend up to $700 billion to shore up troubled assets and bolster various industries.
All unwise moves by the Republicant's administration, but they were just looking out for business's best interest not the public because they were all ready borrowing money from China to finance the fiasco in Iraq. These actions all lead to the unemployment and financial meltdown that we are stuck with until God knows when.
Now we have to listen to the Republicants whine and snivel.
@Casca - do your homework. With the economy the way that it is, the number of illegals in Nevada has dropped by 50,000. Which seems to say that the problem with folks coming here illegally has less to do with our border security than it does the willingness of sleazebag employers to hire them.
As far as supporting Harry Reid, in my book, that's a no-brainer. I think Dawn Gibbons has more brains than her ex-husband and so it mankes sense that she'd support Harry. Still, it does smell a little like revenge.
You would have to be crazy to vote for
the crazy lady.
SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY,
VOTE HARRY REID.
Wow, look at all the right wing haters here. LOL! JEALOUS!!!
RINO is a RINO is a Rino.