Nevada is becoming one of the epicenters of GOP scandals. Congressman Jim Gibbons, the GOP candidate for Governor, has a couple going on. The incident over the alleged assault just keeps on giving. Yesterday, the woman at the center of the controversy had a press conference. There's a new twist every day:
The Las Vegas woman who has accused Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Gibbons of assaulting her said Wednesday that she dropped charges against him the next day because people connected to his campaign had threatened her, pressured her and tried to buy her silence.The article is interesting and tawdry -- not exactly what a candidate wants floating around 12 days before an election. Gibbons got himself in to this mess. He has no one else to blame.
In her first public comments on the circumstances that have put her at the center of the scandal that has dominated the run-up to the election, Chrissy Mazzeo said at a news conference Wednesday that she was telling the truth when she said that Gibbons had assaulted her and that she gladly would take a lie detector test.
