A Night On The Town

I have written before about Las Vegas politics, Oscar "Thumbs" Goodman and ethics in general in Nevada. Things happen out here for the same basic reasons as back East. Money, power and sex dominate it's just a bit more so out west.

In typical Las Vegas fashion we have a politician who wants to come back from Washington as a Representative and run for Governor. I have wondered if he is leaving Washington one step ahead of the sheriff or if there is more money to stick to his fingers in Nevada or both.

He came here for a televised debate (he is from Reno by the way) with Dina Titus (who had our vote to begin with) and went out trolling after leaving the studio. He had the same motives as my Red Rock Tarantula (see the Blog below) but he didn't get girl and he didn't get away either.

A bit of flirting while partying in a high end restaurant followed by some kind of an encounter has created a media feeding frenzy. You can follow it on-line if you want at the conservative Review Journal or the liberal Las Vegas Sun

I doubt that we will ever know what really happened but I do know what Gibbons has said in response to the media. Today he is quoted as saying "As a nearly 30-year member of our nation's military, I try to present myself as an officer and a gentleman, and my actions that night were consistent with that practice." If this bozo thinks I am impressed by his standards as an officer and a gentleman he is sorly out of touch. Torture coverups, murder in Iraq, sexual harassment in the military, service academy scandals and high government conduct have left me way beyond this kind of claim.

All other conduct aside there is no dispute that as a public official walking a drunken person to their car is not a good idea.

The best quote of the affair, for a politician was yesterday, "gosh, I learned an important lession, never to offer a helping hand to anyone again."

Boy oh boy, that just makes me want to be a constituent of his. And that's enough about Nevada politics.

Bob