Republican NV Gubernatorial candidate
Jim Gibbons was involved in a bizarre incident Friday night. According to today's (ver conservative and very uninvestigative)
Review Journal, a "very intoxicated" woman not his wife filed charges for assault against Gibbons on Friday night. "[B]oth had been drinking" at a Las Vegas restaurant near a hotel where Gibbons was staying, alone, and on the way out, she believed that he had assaulted her.
Gibbons is in a tight race with Dina Titus for Governor; the most recent polls put Gibbons less than 2% ahead of Titus. The two meet this week for two live debates.
The woman who is not named in the story filed charges with the police, who conducted a one-day investigation (led by Republican police chief, Bill Young) after which she withdrew the charge. The police consider the matter closed.
But what in the world was Rep Gibbons doing drinking at a restaurant and leaving with a "very intoxicated" woman, then making what he called a "chivalrous gesture" to her in the parking lot near his hotel -- a gesture she originally construed as an assault?
This is a guy who rarely makes public appearances before voters, who insisted that the quesitons for last week's debate be supplied to the candidates in advance, and who has repeatedly mispoken or outrighted lied during the campaign -- but somehow his hand-holding handlers leave him alone, in a LAs Vegas restaurant on Friday night, apparently at the bar where he had "two glasses of wine" before leaving with a "very intoxicated" woman?
There may be a simple explanation here, but the man who would be Governor owes it to us to supply it. His campaign has had no comment about the incident other than their usual flat denial.