No, I’m sorry. That’s hardly a fair analogy. To Nero. Nero set fire to Rome in order to rebuild some slums. [...]]]> Jim Gibbons and his crew apparently have decided to take the rest of the state out with them in a vengeful reign of terror not seen since somewhere around the time of the Roman emperor Nero.

No, I’m sorry. That’s hardly a fair analogy. To Nero. Nero set fire to Rome in order to rebuild some slums. Jim Gibbons seems to just want to set fire to the state for repudiating his crazy ideas by bitch-slapping him in the primary.

Today, a bipartisan collection of state senators politely called the gov an asshole for threatening to block information to the Interim Finance Committee, a committee the Gube and a few malcontents on the far right believe is unconstitutional. (Sun)

Of course, if the state senate had a majority of Republicans in it, no doubt Gibbons wouldn’t have a problem with it.

Even Bob Raggio and Pete Goicoechea signed off on a letter telling the Gøøber that he will breach his constitutional duty if he fails to cooperate fully with the IFC.

Just like when Gibbons fled the House, where he was under investigation for ethics violations, and when he fled that parking garage, the Gov apparently wants to leave his final office one step ahead of the authorities.

Hey, it’s not too late to impeach, guys!

Elsewhere, the Interim Finance Committee followed up on a recommendation from the State Board of Examiners to waste $20,000 on a portrait of Nevada’s worst guberator. (NNB,RJ) One can only wonder what the committee was thinking, unless they hoped that the artist would chose a Laocoon-based theme for the portrait, as I did above, depicting the Gube in everlasting torment, crushed by large, phallic objects.

Frankly, one would be hard pressed to think of a greater waste of state funds than for the Gibbons’ portrait. Surely anything in the state budget would take priority. Like test tubes for UNLV, or TP for legislative bathrooms.

Unless, of course, Michael Fischer of the Cultural Affairs Department decides to pick me for the artist. Then, I would hardly be able think of a better use for the money. Hey, I’m just a principled as the Gøøber!

How about the one to the left, Mike?

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Ross Miller not-so-politely called Gibbons an asshole, or more particularly, a “petulant 15-year-old” at the prison panel meeting. Oddly, the Gube seemed to agree:

When Miller made the motion to halt — at least temporarily — the move by Skolnik to close the prison, Gibbons asked for him to define what he meant.

Miller responded by saying anyone with common sense knows what halting a move to close the state prison means, and those who claim they don’t understand were playing political games and behaving like a “petulant 15-year-old.”

Gibbons did not respond to his comment. (RJ)

15-years, eh, Mr. Miller? Why pick that number?

Meanwhile, remember that guy that Gibbons hired to be stimulus czar after the legislature and the State Controller picked the woman who accused Gibbers of firing her over the text-messaging thing to be their stimulus czar and he got all pissy about it? And remember how that guy turned out to be pretty much incompetent?

Me neither, but a day or two ago the Gube announced that the stimulus czar was supposed to leave, and a day later, he’s back. You know, like a bad penny.

Bizarrely, the IFC–the committee Gibbons wants to kill–voted to fund both stimulus positions for over $200,000. (RJ)

Man, that IFC is full of masochists, ain’t it? I suppose they can take the money out of unemployment benefits or something.

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Meanwhile, Gibbons is threating to cut funding to a state job held by the woman who is suing him for firing her from her previous state job. Mary Keating is suing Gibbons because she claims he fired her after she made public [...]]]> Check out how Jon Stewart explains why Jim Gibbons lost the election–with one word. (DailyShow)

Meanwhile, Gibbons is threating to cut funding to a state job held by the woman who is suing him for firing her from her previous state job. Mary Keating is suing Gibbons because she claims he fired her after she made public his use of a state cell phone to text Kathy Karrasch, his D.C. party-plane pal. (Sun)

Meanwhile, a fellow who threatened to Nuke the Gube has been extradited from Arizona to face charges of conveying false information concerning acts of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, lethal agents or toxins.  (NevadaAppeal) Oh, and chopping down some trees in Henderson.

Meanwhile, still not quite ex-Mrs. Gibbons gave a rather uninteresting postmortem of the Nevada primary race, but made up for it with one of the most unflattering pics ever. (TPM) Oddly, she doesn’t blame Sue Lowden’s meltdown on her arch-nemesis Bobby Uithoven, who was fired after Gibbons was elected Gube in 2006–rumors say–at Mrs. Dawn’s urging. Nowadays, you have to get in line to fire Bobby.

Meanwhile, Rory Reid discovers the worst thing he can call Brian Sandoval is, you guessed, Jim Gibbons. (RGJ)

Man, the Gube is sure making it hard to shut this f-ing blog down.

Just look at what's going on:

After Clinger and the Goober were sued by Mary Keating because she thought she was fired from her state job in retaliation for letting the taxpayers of Nevada know that the Goob was burning through their money [...]]]> So, how long does Budget Director Andrew Clinger have left before he takes the bullet for the latest goobernatorial goof-up?

After Clinger and the Goober were sued by Mary Keating because she thought she was fired from her state job in retaliation for letting the taxpayers of Nevada know that the Goob was burning through their money stalking a Chrissy Mazzeo lookalike via his text-messaging service, she's now suing them and the shell-shocked Ben Kickheifer over putatively libelous statements made by the Gibber's team in their ever more desperate attempts to distract from his gross incompetence and general looniness. (AP,Sun)

Unfortunately for Clinger, the allegedly libelous words are sitting out there on the Internets for all to see:

Keating's new complaint, however, says that she was never given any reason for her dismissal and was certainly never informed it was "work-performance related." (Sun)

And if she really was terminated for "work-performance related" reasons, why did the state hire her back in what Cowkicker claims is a better job?

Are we beginning to see a pattern here? When the Gube wants to dump a gal, he never wants to tell her why. Just ask Dawn.

Frankly, it's beginning to look like Gibbers' staffers deserve combat pay. How long is the burn out rate? About six months? A year, maybe?

So, place your bets! How much longer will Clinger be allowed to snuggle with the wife in state offices?

I mean, who can be bothered with [...]]]> I know it’s not fair mentioning the Keating five incident again since the Republican candidate for president is such a noble war hero that he’d never get involved in a savings and loan scandal. Plus, it’s so passé, having been a topic of conversation so long ago. Like last week.

I mean, who can be bothered with ancient history?

You know, like that text messaging thing where the Nevada Gaffer was spending all his free time–that’s be about 160 hours per week out of 168–sending love notes to the Mazzeo lookalike he was stalking.

What with the continuing budget crisis, the prison guy threatening to bail if the prison budget gets axed any more, and the Mazzeo suit, who has time to remember gaffes from a month or two ago?

Uh, apparently we do!

Conveniently buried on the last page of the Nevada Section by the local paper of wreckord* and splashed over the front of its insert: Gibbons is begin sued for firing the hapless state employee who exposed his text messaged lust. (RJ, Sun)

You know, that RJ should call that last page of the Nevada Section its Gibbons’ Scandal Section, just so everybody knows where to turn in the morning to find out what the Gube’s been up to. Set up some Cialis ads back there, too. Make it real nice.

Dear old Kickheifer, startled in his office while no doubt chewing through another bottle of antacids by another of “those” calls from the press, immediately ran to the nearest phone to insist again, that just like the tax assessor from Elko, or the son of a prominent now ex-Assemblymember who sits on the tax commission, or just about everyone else in or out of state government that doesn’t cut the gube $10,000-plus checks for the old re-election or legal defense fund, that “The governor wouldn’t recognize Mary Keating if she was sitting right here.”

Not sober anyways.

And how in the world does any work get done in the state budget office, what with the budget director, corporeal Clinger, getting lap dances–albeit spousal–during office hours???

The lawsuit claims that Clinger also wanted her fired because Keating had complained “of his improper sexually oriented conduct with his wife while on state premises” around March 2006.

Clinger said the incident refers to a time when his wife was sitting on his lap in his office. “One of Mary Keating’s employees walked in
unannounced while my wife was there sitting on my lap and my wife stood
up.” (Sun)

One can only wonder where the budget director’s pants were at the time.

Well, Nevada elected Gibbons to minimize state government. Guess the wingnuts just didnt’ realize he’d be using his nuclear-strength incompetence to do such an efficient job of it.

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*Hmm. Spell check’s having trouble with that “wreckord”, but seems right to me. The RJ: it’s a wreck and it’s a tangle.