Nevada GOP Rep. Jim Gibbons involved in "mysterious event" with woman

[Ian David]

Nevada GOP Candidate for Governor a.k.a Congressman Jim Gibbons involved in "mysterious event" with woman last Friday night
by Joe in DC - 10/18/2006 11:56:00 PM

What is it with Republican Congressman? The GOP candidate for Governor in Nevada, Congressman Jim Gibbons, got himself in to some trouble last Friday night:

Police said they would release new information today, including 911 tapes and witness interviews, about a mysterious event Friday in which a woman accused Republican governor candidate Jim Gibbons of assault, only to withdraw the allegation.

The story is still stirring questions, fed by Democratic whispering, by information and contradictory accounts gleaned from Metro Police and a potential witness, and by the refusal of police or the Gibbons campaign to identify the people involved.

As questions grew this week, police said they would provide more information Tuesday. But late in the afternoon, they postponed the release until today, saying they needed more time to transcribe and assemble statements.

Read the article. It sure sounds like Congressman Gibbons can't quite get his story straight. Love the last line where the Deputy Police Chief said, "From a police point of view, this was a he said, she said." Hmmmm.

Here's AP's article:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/oct/18/101810114.html

A single mother and a Nevada congressman running for governor gave vastly different accounts of a night of drinking that ended in three calls to 911, a police investigation and a battery complaint that was later withdrawn, police reports show.

Chrissy Mazzeo made three calls to 911 in which she told operators she had been assaulted by Rep. Jim Gibbons, according to investigative reports released by police Wednesday.

Mazzeo, 32, told police that Gibbons grabbed her arms and tried to force himself on her late Friday in a parking garage near a restaurant where she had been drinking with a friend, the congressman and his top adviser.

From the Gibbons campaign website:



More:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/nevada-gop-candidate-for-governor-aka.html


And in the comments section of the blog...


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I wonder if it was this Chrissy Mazzeo?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFqVXslauQw

or this one (might be same woman:

http://www.tkpsite.com/movies/actors/chrissymazzeo/
Prof. Hex | Homepage | 10.19.06 - 1:17 am | #

[NMDemDist2]

1. hmmm. that what the kids are calling it these days? a "mysterious event"

good grief

:banghead:

[Fuzz]

2. Just a 'youthful indiscretion'. Nothing to see here.

[xchrom]

3. THREE 911 calls?

oooo-kaaay.

three.

[Sherman A1]

4. Interesting

seems to be something of a GOP pattern here or am I missing something???

[seabeyond]

5. kick and recommend, in honor of.... n/t

[Ian David]

6. When asked about her change of mind, she said it was "because of who he is

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Mazzeo dropped the complaint the next day and told police she did not want to start a media circus. She did not recant the allegations or say she lied. She also told police she was not pressured to withdraw the complaint.

When asked about her change of mind, she said it was "because of who he is."

"I just don't want to go up against that," Mazzeo said.

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"And I said, 'Are you really, you know, rape me at this time?' And he said, 'You have two choices right now,'" Mazzeo told police. "And I said, 'No way.' I said, 'I've survived cancer and then you're going to turn around and do this.'"

[seabeyond]

7. this is so weird

i could have sworn wheni typed this i had seen a face of a young soldier that recently died in iraq and was posted by this young mans teachers. very very odd. i cannot edit my post. i am not honoring.... this event. i thought it was a dead soldier. sorry, i really do not know how this happened

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. Is he married?

If so, that makes the story even juicier. ;) I can't wait to see what happens.

[Ian David]

9. Yes. And he told her that marriage isn't all it's cracked-up to be.nt

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. OMG...this is so sweeeeet!

:7

[librechik]

10. "then withdrew the complaint"

a wiser--and wealthier--woman no doubt.

I think Rep Gibbons will discover he has a drinking problem very soon.