Las Vegas Sun

May 18, 2024

Flashpoint for Feb. 13, 2006

Things have been going swimmingly for Rep. Jim Gibbons for quite some time now. He has skillfully avoided any debates and any public gaffes since he pilfered a state auditor's speech last year. Chancellor Jim Rogers has been muffled by Gibbons' genuflecting in private suck-up sessions. And the congressman continues to lead in the polls and the money race - an almost unbeatable combination. Then along comes the national media last week with a couple of stories - a six-degrees-of-separation Abramoff story about Gibbons and one closer to home implying the congressman might have had a whistleblower fired. The infernal media will do anything to create a race.

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