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Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 | 1:18 p.m.
Sue Lowden
CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons has named former state Sen. Sue Lowden of Las Vegas to the state Board of Medical Examiners.
Lowden will represent the public at large on the board that regulates doctors in Nevada.
She was an unsuccessful candidate for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate earlier this year. Lowden is a businesswoman, former TV news anchor and kindergarten teacher. She served in the state Senate from 1993 to 1997.
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WTF moment - "Jim Gibbons names Sue Lowden to NV state medical board" - this is the US Sentate candiate that suggested we barter with doctors over medical bills by offering a "chicken" as payment just like are forefathers would've done. She is now on the state medical board appointed by an outgoing governor. What can she possibly bring to the table in that position.....maybe a chicken dinner! Seriously though, what does she bring to the table?
You have GOT to be kidding. What the heck does Ms. Lowden know about medicine or health care? I mean, besides being able to trade a chicken for it?
Bawk! Bawk! Baaaawk!!!
Made me lol.
Maybe Gym DOES have a sense of humor!
This is like the punchline to a bad joke.
Or maybe Gov. Gibbons feels there's some merit to exploring Ms. Lowden's proposal for a poultry-based health care delivery system.
This is why I laugh when people talk about Brian Sandoval as being "better than Gibbons." That's the lowest threshold imaginable, isn't it? And Sandoval and his pep squad shouldn't take that as a compliment.
That is just too funny!! Gibbons last joke on our State!
That's okay the Board is a joke too.
I haven't laughed so hard in months! Thank you Las Vegas Sun for making my day!
The jokes write themselves. Best of all, I'm virtually certain that both Gibbons and Lowden were completely oblivious to the Lowden-chicken-healthcare-medical board connection that everyone with a brain would inevitably make.
"...poultry-based health care delivery system..."
Thanks for the laugh, Bill_in_Henderson. If we weren't laughing, we'd be crying.
Jim Gibbons' latest action is so blatantly malicious that it is now unquestionable that he intends to harm Nevada. The Assembly should begin immediate impeachment proceedings to remove this miscreant from office before he is able to do anymore harm. Jim Gibbons' series of absurd actions over the past several weeks clearly meets the definition of "malfeasance" that is required by the Nevada Constitution for the commencement of impeachment proceedings and the removal from office. Jim Gibbons and Sue Lowden are making a laughingstock out of Nevada.
That's as funny as Harry Reid getting a job for Dina Taxes.
And for her first official act as a member of the medical board, Ms. Lowden, will specifiy the number and kind of chickens required as payment for most medical procedures performed in the State of Nevada. I'm told a coronary bypass is expected to require 2500 chickens. This is unreal, I thought we had in bad down here in Arizona with Jan Brewer, but this Gibbons character has set a new low with this selection.
Former beauty queen. Former news reader. Current mouthpiece for a company that wants the taxpayers to pay them to build a stadium.
Medicine? Nope. But she's blonde and cute and in his age range! That does it for Jimbo!
As I posted when Jimbo fired the NDOW director...
Look for more "Last Hoorahs" !
What's next ?
Gov Gibbons should fire the top 3 bunglers at Nevadas "NO Mine Safety and Training Section". . .or send them for horse riding lessons. . .
One never knows exactly what kind of favors that smiley chicken lady might have worked on poor ole lonely Gymbo for the chance to cozy up to the medical crowd.
With all that left-over political capital he has to toss around, she might be right lucky to get a little, so to speak, and maybe use her movie star good looks to further some pretty exciting ideas about how medicine ought to be part of the pawn shop business. "I'll give you this here guitar and that there plow fer that bottle of half used penicillin and them vicodins."