The Carson City paper caught scandal-plagued Gov. Jim Gibbons (R), who is in the midst of a messy divorce, on camera at the Reno rodeo Sunday with the ex-wife of a former Reno mayor. She also happens to be a former Playboy playmate (1989).
Asked to comment on why one picture showed him in a parking lot hugging the woman not his wife (nor the other other woman, with whom Gibbons had exchanged hundreds of text messages), Gibbons said he was comforting a stressed out friend: “She was upset, crying. She couldn’t get her breath. I put my arms around her.”
What is it with Gibbons and parking areas? You’ll recall that during his 2006 campaign for governor, then-congressman Gibbons was accused by a Las Vegas cocktail waitress of sexually assaulting her in a Vegas parking garage. Gibbons, who was never charged, said that the woman had simply tripped and he had caught her.
When Nevada women are in distress, Jim Gibbons is there to comfort them. What more could you want in a governor?
Late Update: We have more on the damsel-in-distress-saving governor — including the photo in question — in today’s TPMmuckraker Must Read.
