Story: "Nevada's race for governor was barely a contest at all until it took a scandalous turn a few weeks ago, when a cocktail waitress accused Rep. Jim Gibbons of trying to sexually assault her in a parking garage after a night of drinking just off the Las Vegas Strip.
The lurid allegations in the closing weeks of the campaign have put the race back in play and put the one-time Republican front-runner on the defensive. Policy issues have taken a back seat to dueling news conferences, a burgeoning criminal investigation and a mystery over what exactly is on the parking garage's surveillance video.
Gibbons, a conservative five-term congressman from Reno and the only member in the House to have served in both the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars, had held a nine-point lead in September
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It was three weeks before Election Day when 32-year-old Chrissy Mazzeo made three 911 calls after leaving a Las Vegas restaurant where she had been drinking with a friend, the married congressman, his top adviser and others. Alternately breathless and laughing, the single mother who recently left the Wynn Las Vegas hotel-casino to work at the Bellagio hotel-casino told police that Gibbons grabbed her arms and tried to force himself on her.
Gibbons told police it "didn't happen." He said he walked Mazzeo toward her truck and helped her catch her balance after she tripped at the garage entrance. At a news conference with his wife at his side, insisted he had behaved like "an officer and a gentleman."
Mazzeo dropped the complaint the day after the alleged incident and told police it was because she did not want to start a media circus and "because of who he is."
But last week, Mazzeo, having retained a lawyer, called a news conference to claim she was threatened, pressured and offered money through an intermediary to change her story. Mazzeo said the intermediary was a friend who told her her life was in danger and "if you don't drop this, Chrissy, they will kill you, your baby and your family.""
1. DON'T HANG OUT WITH STRIPPERS IN A BAR, ESPESSIALLY IF YOUR MARRIED AND IN OFFICE.
2. This lady is nuts, I think she's looking for some fame and love from the democrats for crashing an honest man's election.
3. The democrats have not taken the time to examine the evidence. After all, its not the evidence that matters, but the seriousness of the charge that is the issue.
4. If this incedent really happened, why on earth did she drop the charges?
My prediction: Gibbons will still win, and he is definatly handling this the right way.
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4 comments:
Amen.
I am also watching with outrage (and with theological interest) the way John Kerry and his accomplices in the Dems/media are trying to spin their way out of his verbal gaffe of yesterday.
In true postmodern, Lewis Carrollian fashion, Kerry is trying to say that he didn't say what the cameras caught him saying. He said it, and its indisputable. But now he says the words don't mean what they mean. He really meant Bush, not the troops. Yeah. Right. That's not what your words said, John.
I think Johnnie needs to put a sock in it and go home. Resigning from the Senate would be an added bonus.
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Saul
Sola, I agree.
Saul, thanks for dropping in.
This just goes to show who's reputation is better: Democrat or Republican! Like solameanie said, Kerry is trying to get his foot out of his mouth. Admit it Kerry!!! I will be posting and article about the Kerry issue on my blog:
www.detectivej.wordpress.com
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