Posted on 02/15/2007 12:21:23 PM PST by Kuksool
Federal authorities confirmed Thursday that Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons is under investigation for failing to properly report gifts or payments from a software company that was awarded secret military contracts when he was in Congress. The newly elected Republican governor’s office issued a statement saying that while he was a close friend of the company owner, Warren Trepp, there was “no special power” that Gibbons could provide in awarding defense contracts to the company.
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Another corrupt RINO at work.
Fortunately, we were able to keep his wife from winning his House seat. Unfortunately, pro-abortion RINO Dean Heller beat out conservative Sharron Angle by just 428 votes in the GOP primary.
If guilty, then he must be a RINO.
I think Reid's opponent in '98 was Jon Ensign.
Who is the lt. gov. in NV? I hope it is another Republican in case Gibbons gets into big trouble.
NV's Ltd Gov is Brian Krolicki, a Republican.
http://ltgov.nv.gov/
You're right, according to Michael Barone, Reid beat Ensign by exactly 428 votes in 1998:
1998 general
Harry Reid (D) 208,650 48%
John Ensign (R) 208,222 48%
Other 18,918 4%
However, the 428-vote margin for the 2006 Heller-Angle primary may not be correct (I got it from Wikipedia), since this NV site provides a 421-vote margin: http://www.secretaryofstate.biz/nvelection/2006StateWidePrimary/ElectionSummary.htm
But perhaps the Wiki editor used final, recounted results, and the race was indeed decided by 428 votes. Given that Reid beat Ensign by doing surprisingly well in Republican Reno, and that Heller also did better than expected in Reno (in the primary; he did poorly in the general), perhaps the Reno racket used the same formula to place their candidate over the top.
As for Heller's general-election opponent, she doesn't appear to be pro-life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Derby
And she's an Episcopalian, not a Mormon: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/pre/NV/H/02/30256/bioIF.html
How can a fellow freeper pass judgement based on an article from the AP of all sources? I am very familiar w/ the circumstances here & this is much a do about nothing. This is a charge trumped up by ultra left wing whack job Dina Titus who lost to Gibbons in the last election. This was far from the only mud she was slinging. Gibbons is far from a RINO.
Gibbons IS a RINO, and if this allegation is correct, it's going to be quite apparent why Jimbo is Dirty Harry's best "Republican" friend in Nevada.
The scandals never quit with this guy.
Don't blame me, I was for Bob Beers.
Sorry dude, you need to get your facts straight. Amazingly, John Ensign is actually Harry's pal. They've been buds for some time now & have formed an informal pact not to support each other's opponents. Very strange but true. Gibbon's is no fan of Harry's. I'm interested in why you think Gibbons is a RINO. As I recall, he has a 94-96 conservative rating. Much better than many of his coharts on this side of the isle.
Thanks, but I've had 'em straight a long time. There are many different kinds of RINOs. There are RINOs in policy and there are RINOs that put selfish personal goals ahead of party and country (or vice-versa). Gibbons has aspects of both qualities, but is heavy on the latter.
Besides being pro-abort, he decided that rather than knock off Reid in 2004 as ostensibly the one candidate that could (which would've kept the Senate for us by 1 seat after the massacre this past November), he put his own selfish interests above doing so, insisting that he wanted the Governorship instead (for which we were bursting at the seems of viable candidates with statewide experience). Add to that his little stunt of trying to install his RINO wife into his House seat.
I'm not going to condemn him, yet, on this current allegation, but if it proves true, he is nothing but another Bill Janklow, another selfish RINO one-man destruction team. But the indications is that his character is already previously in question, and as they say, where there's smoke, there's fire.
BTW, too, two certain former Congressmen from my state had high ACU ratings, one ended up a Governor and morphed into a RINO monster, handing the office to a rodent on a silver platter, and another turned into a selfish party-sabotaging traitor who came very close to costing us the Senate seat in this past election.
Oh, and welcome to FR. I see you just joined up this evening.
Not to hi-jack the thread or anything, but which casino has the best slots these days? Cal-Neva used to be pretty good, but I heard they tightened things up.
First of all, thanks for the welcome, I've been a lurker for years & finally pulled the trigger.
Now, in regards to running against Reid, the odds are heavily against anyone beating Reid in this state. He has a great deal of power in this state w/ the powers to be.
As I stated, Ensign refuses to endorse anyone running against him. I can't figure that one out. I'm a big Ensign fan genarally but his deal w/ Reid is baffling.
It was anything but a lock that Gibbons would have been able to give Reid a good fight & frankly Beers et al probably would have lost to Titus b/c of the control she has down in liberal Vegas.
As far as these alegations are concerned, it's all a red herring. Trepp's company was the only one in the world that made the product in question. The military wanted what Trepp had & he was the only one in the world who had it. Gibbons didn't influence anything. Why would he need to influence? Can you say Haliburton? Same crapola, different day.
There's no doubt that Reid has a lot of power, but Nevada is not so rodent a leaning state that he couldn't be dislodged. The fact that Ensign nearly beat him in an awful Republican year (1998) meant that a challenge by Gibbons in a great GOP year (2004) would've spelled the end for Reid. Same with Daschle in SD. We had the prime opportunity to behead the entire 'Rat leadership. John Thune rose to the occasion (despite his great reluctance), but Gibbons put personal ambition ahead. I expect the 'Rats to act like that, but not Republicans. Gibbons would've been considered a hero for taking out the biggest cancer on NV politics, and would've been in a better position (experience-wise) to DC politics as opposed to Carson City politics. Bob Beers was the best bet for the latter. A win-win scenario all around.
"As I stated, Ensign refuses to endorse anyone running against him. I can't figure that one out. I'm a big Ensign fan genarally but his deal w/ Reid is baffling."
Though I'm not happy to hear that, it's not nearly as unusual as you might think. Most Senators, for the sake of comity, don't usually come out and endorse the opponents of their seatmates (in fact, and this is a very odd thing to realize, that Senators of opposite parties often get along far better than those of the same, because same-party Senators often have to jockey and battle against one another for positions of power within their own states and state parties -- for example, in MS, both Trent Lott and Thad Cochran aren't exactly best buds, and in NJ, ex-Sen. Torricelli and current Sen. Lautenberg hated each other. Reid and Ensign aren't going to challenge each other for supremacy within their own parties, while Ensign and Gibbons would have had to fight for the same piece of the pie). Of course, even Ensign's full-throated support wouldn't have helped the nobody that challenged Reid in '04.
"It was anything but a lock that Gibbons would have been able to give Reid a good fight & frankly Beers et al probably would have lost to Titus b/c of the control she has down in liberal Vegas."
I disagree on both. I think Sen. Beers was an excellent and articulate candidate who had a far better idea about what was wrong in CC than Gibbons. If Beers was as much of a stand-out to folks as far away as my state following the primary race, I think he would've prevailed in the general, and neutralized any potential advantage of Titus's, since they both hailed from Vega$ (if anything, by your reckoning, Titus should've done better against Reno-based Gibbons).
I hope for his sake that the allegations are baloney. Because that is all we need but to get pegged with "another" corrupt Republican/RINO, and distract from Reid's dealings. If he is guilty, he should resign now and save the party and the state the trouble, and give Brian Krolicki time to clean up the mess and recover. We don't need another situation like what happened in Ohio where the ethically-challenged RINO Governor with the Conservative political name helped eviscerate the party and destroyed the chances of the finest authentic Conservative to run for Governor in many years, all because he refused to resign as soon as the corruption came to light.
Remember, 'Rats can get away with not only the appearance of impropriety and outright criminal behavior, Republicans can't.
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