GOP Congressman Jim Gibbons, who is also the GOP candidate for Governor in Nevada, is caught up in a major scandal as we first reported Wednesday. The plot continues to thicken. Although Gibbons would do a photo op with his wife, he wouldn't answer questions from reporters:
On the first two of those calls, Mazzeo was short of breath, difficult to understand and slurring her words. By the final call, however, she seemed more articulate and her statements were consistent with the detailed account she gave to police about two hours later.Whatever happened, Gibbons, a right wing conservative, is a married man. He was drinking and cavorting in the middle of a campaign. He's a hypocrite with bad judgment.
Campbell, like Gibbons, refused to take questions. By doing so, they failed to resolve questions that remain about what happened in a parking garage across the street from the restaurant at Hughes Center near the Las Vegas Strip.
Gibbons said he walked with Mazzeo to the parking garage to help her find her truck. Once in the parking garage, he said, she slipped and he caught her as she fell.
His account is consistent with what he told police last Saturday, although his version has differed in some ways from what his campaign said previously. Most significantly, the campaign has said the incident occurred just outside the restaurant, not in a parking garage.
Mazzeo says she didn't slip, but rather, he pushed her against a wall and threatened her.
