Hot In a Vegas Way

Because this is a National Politics Site, we've had to pull ourselves away from covering Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nevada) all the time. Periodic roundups will have to do ... until Gibbons just starts killing people.

RECAP: Gibbons is running for governor. His wife was running for his congressional seat, but she didn't survive the primary. Jim got in trouble for having adrunken restaurant party with a bunch of gals a week ago -- his wife wasn't one of them -- and then he got accused of assaulting one of the gals, outside the restaurant. He sort of denies the really bad parts. Oh, and a Vegas TV station has since come up with a terrible illegal nanny story, just to make it really bad for Mr. Close the Border. And now, the New Developments:

* Allegedly assaulted waitress Chrissy Mazzeo finally gave her own press conference. She's "hot in a Vegas kind of way." [Reno and its Discontents] 

* Mazzeo's name was illegally/improperly leaked by the sheriff's department, while Gibbons' staff immediately began calling her a crazy drunken whore. [Las Vegas Gleaner] 

* Gibbons allegedly propositioned her, threatened to rape and/or kill her, and then somebody from his campaign tried to bribe her to shut up. [Associated Press] 

* Clark County Sheriff Bill Young is fucking insane. This is what he said in public Thursday: "Bring it on. Come forward, sign the crime report. You want an investigation? You ain't seen nothing yet." [AP] 

* Young's opponent Jerry Airola -- the sheriff's election is alsocoming up -- says this just proves Bill Young is a thug who runs the department as a personal security unit for Nevada's political mafia. [Las Vegas Sun] 

* Sheriff Young says, "Oh yeah? Well, you're a freakin' Scientologist!" [KVBC TV] 

* In an interview after the news conferenece, Mazzeo describes Jim Gibbons this way: "Something is mentally wrong with him." [Las Vegas Sun] 

* If you've never heard of Jim Gibbons, it's because he spent a decade in Congress without doing anything.