Forget 2008: the 2010 Election Season Has Already Begun

The first–no, wait–the second official event of the 2010 Gubathon will be Monday, October 29th when Barbara Buckley has a town hall meeting wherein she'll be giving her first seminar on how to govern the state of Nevada.

We all need reminding about governing since it's been about two years now since Nevada had any serious gubering.

Details for the Town Hall:

WHAT:        Southern Nevada 2020 Town Hall on the overhaul of Nevada's financial structure
WHEN:       Monday, September 29
                  5:30 p.m.
WHERE:     Spring Valley High School Auditorium
                  3750 S Buffalo Dr.
                  Las Vegas, Nevada

and one for the Renoids:

WHAT:       Northern Nevada 2020 Town Hall on the overhaul of Nevada's financial structure
WHEN:      Monday, October 6
                  5:30 p.m.
WHERE:    Joe Crowley Student Union, UNR
                  1664 N. Virginia St.
                  Reno, Nevada

Rory Reid's recent "rouse the rurals" tour counts, I believe, as the first event for the 2010 Gubathon, and I would have gladly given notice about that, but I'm apparently only on the senior Reid's junkmail list.

Elsewhere: The judge presiding over the Gibbons' marriage meltdown is just about as sick of the first couple as the rest of us. Family court judge Frances Doherty has ruled that the couple has failed to resolve their differences according to an earlier agreement and may face sanctions. (AP) A special commission–yes another one–will be assembled to go over the couple's finances.

Looks like Dawn could get the Elko property and the 10,000 or so cows the gube seems to think reside on it.

The Sage commission has discovered a way to save a bazillion dollars or so for the state. By turning medicaid over to an HMO. (RJ) And it doesn't seem fair that they get credit for the idea to shut down a prison in Carson that was on the chopping block anyway. But, so much for the great experiment in finding fat on a corpse.

Nevada OSHA is mighty upset that its fed counterpart thinks it's letting Boyd Gaming off easy in the deaths of workers at a casino project. (AP)

Among the irregularities surrounding the case: Gube appointee Mendy Eliot seems to have intervened to stave off sanctions against the company. Mendy at the time was director of the state's  Business and Industry Department, of which–wait for it–Nevada OSHA is an appendage:

An OSHA spokeswoman confirmed Thursday that Boyd had asked one of
Gibbons’ appointees to become involved. She is Mendy Elliott, director
of the Business and Industry Department, which includes OSHA.

Elliott, in turn, reached out to a top official in Gibbons’ office,
Dianne Cornwall, his chief operating officer. A third state official,
Roger Bremner, the administrator for the Industrial Relations Division,
which directly oversees OSHA, was also uncharacteristically involved in
the case.

But that's not the best part. This is:

Gibbons received at least $45,000 from Boyd Gaming and related
interests in his 2006 race for governor and nearly $40,000 in his
congressional campaigns dating to 1996. (Sun)

Our Gube. He's everywhere! Where there's corruption, anyways.

Ooo. Lot's of background on the OSHA thing here.