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Posted At : July 17, 2009 02:56 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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Whilst Gov. Jim Gibbons is overseas, engaged in top-secret derring-do, there's bad news on the home front. News outlets are starting to report that MGM Mirage is directing all of its 2010 gubernatorial donations to Clark County Commissioner Rory Reid. (The Sun had the story first but good luck trying to find it with Greenspun Media's FUBAR search engine.)
Why does this matter? Because MGM was a veritable cash register for Midnight Jim during his '06 race. Gibbons was then-CEO J. Terrence Lanni's parting gift to the state of Nevada. Lanni doubled down on his support of Gibbons after the then-congressman was accused of getting frisky with a cocktail waitress after a boozy night out with influence peddler Sig Rogich.
Even with a ski-lodge pitchman running his campaign, Gov. Jim Gibbons is going to learn that his re-election bid won't be a run on the bunny slopes.
Lanni's boosterism toward Gibbons never made sense: Nevada's leading proponent of widening a gross-receipts tax onto non-casino business supporting a candidate whose entire platform boiled down to "No New Taxes. Period"? Does.Not.Compute.
Once elected, Midnight Jim showed his true colors, jilting Lanni for the cozy embrace of Sheldon Adelson and basically taking his marching orders from Las Vegas Sands HQ.
If MGM has crossed Gibbons off its Christmas list now, he might as well call it a day. This is the biggest footprint planted on his backside to date. True, Reid fils is no shoo-in, even for the Democratic nomination. Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley is expected to put up a strong fight, although some of us wish she'd done the same in the '09 Lege, where she played the role of doormat to both the mining industry and the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.
As I said before of an Oscar Goodman "spoiler" candidacy, What's there to spoil? Run, Oscar, run!
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"As I said before of an Oscar Goodman "spoiler" candidacy, What's there to spoil? Run, Oscar, run!" Given the dire fiscal situation here in California, with "the Governator" & a frozen-in-place legislature, are you sure you want that?
Then again, maybe it "voident hoit", as the old joke goes.