When it comes to Republicans and corruption and sex crimes, I guess they figure, better to burn out than fade away …
A casino cocktail waitress told police a drunken U.S. Rep. Jim Gibbons grabbed her, shoved her against a wall and threatened her in a Las Vegas parking garage after she rebuffed his advances at a restaurant Friday night.
But Chrissy Mazzeo, 32, told investigators she did not want to press charges against the Reno congressman “mainly because of who he is. ‘Cause of who he is, and I just don’t want to go up against something like that.”
Gibbons, 61, the Republican candidate for governor, denied her version of the story and told police he merely helped a woman to her vehicle and grabbed her arm when she tripped and fell.
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