FLASHPOINT for Jan 28, 2007

One thing that emerged in the aftermath of the new gover- nor's State of the State speech was how energized legislative Democrats are to take on Jim Gibbons. It's not just that they know he is a fundamentally weak chief executive because of his 48 percent victory . They really feel as if he has given them something to fight about. If it's not empowerment experiments or school funding, it's access to health care or coal plants or a road infrastructure non-plan. It was less than an hour after Gibbons kicked off his speech, with encomiums directed toward Speaker Barbara Buckley, that she was organizing a news conference in her office to kick his agenda all over the place. Kenny Guinn had some goodwill. Gibbons has none.

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