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Nevada governor's messy divorce is a gossip jackpot
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 10, 2008 06:55pm |
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| Category | Scandal |
| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Although Nevadans yawn at quickie divorces, drive-through weddings, topless showgirls and legalized prostitution, the divorce proceedings between Gov. Jim Gibbons and his estranged wife, Dawn, have transfixed folks here like a daytime soap opera.
"I don't want to know all the details -- it makes me feel prurient," says Carol Hendricks, 79, at the Comma Coffee shop across from the state Legislative Building. "But when it's out there, I can't stop reading it."
There is no shortage of details.
Gibbons filed for divorce last month, saying he and Dawn were incompatible. Since then, the first couple has brawled over custody of the 23-room governor's mansion. (Dawn finally agreed to sleep in the guesthouse.) She has accused him of cheating. He says "absolutely not."
The governor won't face voters until 2010 -- a political eternity -- but GOP activists fret that his purported philandering could hurt the party in November. What if fed-up Republicans pare back campaign contributions -- or stay home on election day? That could flip control of the state Senate, where Republicans cling to a slender majority -- or even hand Nevada, which twice voted for President Bush, to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. |
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