Who Will Replace Gibbons Gubelets

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  Molly Ball rounds up the usual suspects for the Deathrace 2010 Gubeathon. (RJ) Nor'Town's tanned, boy scoutish mayor Mike Montandon says he's gung-ho to challenge the Gube in the Republican primary. If you want to see how his money is, don't just check the mayor's reports over on Nor'Town's city site. You'll want to have a gander at the NLVPac (stands for North Las Vegas PAC) reports over on the SoS site. There's $111,000 over there, some of which was spent on polling for the non-Nor'Towny campaigns of Donna Toussaint, Sean Fellows, and Brian Scroggins. (NLVPac 2008-CE-2) The Nevada State Republican party is the main source of funds, having pumped $60,000 into the PAC during the last few months. Turned out to be a handy way to slip money into a bunch of campaigns while skirting campaign finance limits, I suppose. I wonder how so-called Democrat state senator John Lee likes taking laundered Republican money? He got $1,000 from the PAC this time around.
• The NLVPac got its start as a way for a loony rightwing dot-com bazzilionaire to funnel money into Nor'Town politics and mainly into Republican races. It was the subject of one of my (sniff!) first posts over on the Nor'Town blog. Course, if the money is now going to be used in a bloody Republican primary which will bleed the Gube's coffers and make him an easy target in the general, why I might just contribute to it myself! I said "might," note.
• A truly cynical and paranoid person might wonder if the recent flap over the Casa Rosa apartments might not be the first salvo against the mayor, who unhappily sits on the Nor'Town housing board which has been found to be the rather Dickensian landlord of the place. The City of Las Vegas blew the whistle on that one. Anybody from down there running for Gube?
• I'm sure we all enjoyed Sou'Town mayor Oscar Goodman's version of Howard Dean's scream last week. (Sun) Only a truly cynical and paranoid person would wonder if the Culinary Union was put up to it by other Gube wannabes whom Culinary likes better.
• Oh, here's a lovely piece about Clark County Commissioner and Gube wannabe Rory Reid, who seems well-liked by unions. Oh, and it mentions a bunch of real governors in it as if Rory were, well, you know, one of them already. (Sun)
• Oh, look. State Assemblyspokestress Barbara Buckley received a lovely endorsement from the Culinary Union just this year.
• I suppose it's a good thing that all of us have abandoned cynicism and paranoia for the time being. (Ralston, Gleaner) Otherwise, the Deathrace 2010 would just make us all even more so.
• Lezsee. You pay for the computer, the Internet connection, the (I'm guessing) shitty Microsoft Outpoop software, the desk the computer's sitting on, and the salary of the guy whose butt is being kept off the floor by the chair you bought while he may be sending incriminating love notes to northern Nevada Milfs and DoDCons*. And yet the state Attorney General will argue that you don't get to see what the Governor writes using all your stuff. (AP) And to think she used your computer, your Internet connection, your (I'm guessing) shitty Microsoft Turd software, your desk, and your chair to write up that opinion, and didn't even say "thank you, stooge!"

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*Department of Defense Contractors