No apologies

By Dana Gentry

Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008 | 4:38 p.m.

Governor Jim Gibbons says he has an apology coming, now that a two-member panel of the Ethics Commission found no evidence to compel a full hearing into charges Gibbons used his office to gain a tax break. At a news conference following the hearing, Gibbons said it's the obligation of we scoundrels in the media to tell how what he called the Democratic party's politically motivated complaint fell flat. But as former Elko assessor Joe Aguirre confirms tonight on Face to Face, the person who outed Gibbons' tax break to the media was a Republican County Commissioner in Elko named Sheri Eklund-Brown. Gibbons seemed genuinely surprised when I asked him at the news conference about the treason within his party. My efforts to reach Eklund-Brown for an interview fell as flat as the Democrat's complaint.

My apologies, but I'm a slow learner, so we once again invited Gibbons to appear on Face to Face. His streak of avoiding the program while governor remains intact. Some might say his silence is deafening at a time when the state is floundering. Some might say the governor has no obligation to appear. We'll just keep extending the invitation, without apologies.

Tomorrow: Former Nevada governors Robert List (R) and Richard Bryan (D) discuss calls for the resignation of Bob Loux, Nevada's longtime chieftan in the war against nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, who is in hot water over allegedly unauthorized pay raises for his staff.