'If you don't drop this, Chrissy, they will kill you, your baby, and

[ProgressiveEconomist]

your family.'

The very same day his wife was accused of perjury in getting employment papers for her undocumented Peruvian nanny, Republican Governor candidate Jim Gibbons was accused of sexual assault on Nevada TV!

Jim Gibbons is -- or was -- running against "illegal immigration" and for "family values".

See also a story (with pictures) at http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5587342 , and the links at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2475986 .

From http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/oct/25/102510097.html :

'Nevada candidate's accuser in assault case goes public

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY, ASSOCIATED PRESS; Today: October 25, 2006 at 15:25:11 PDT

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A woman who says she was assaulted and propositioned by a Republican congressman running for Nevada governor said Wednesday she was physically threatened, pressured - and even offered money - to drop her allegations and change her story. Chrissy Mazzeo, 32, a Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino cocktail waitress, said at an hour-long news conference that the money offer came soon after the alleged Oct. 13 incident from a friend who said she had connections to Rep. Jim Gibbons' gubernatorial campaign. The friend, Pennie Puhek, told Mazzeo to drop the charges against Gibbons, 61, and said she would be paid if she signed a statement changing her account, according to Mazzeo's lawyer Richard Wright.

"There's money in this, you will get money for signing this," Wright quoted Puhek as saying on Oct. 16, adding that a specific amount wasn't mentioned but it was clear the payment would be coming from "the Gibbons party." Mazzeo said Puhek also stated that her life was in danger and "if you don't drop this, Chrissy, they will kill you, your baby and your family."

Gibbons issued a statement saying he did nothing inappropriate and calling the statements by Mazzeo and Wright defamatory and outrageous. He added it was a fabrication to suggest that he or anyone in his campaign "threatened violence or offered money to anyone in an attempt to cover up these allegations." Sig Rogich, Gibbons' top adviser, also denied Mazzeo's claims, saying, "All I can say is, these are just absurd charges." He added that he would cooperate in any investigation - and would even take a polygraph test - "to show this to be what it is - a fabrication."

Puhek, reached by telephone, declined to comment. Mazzeo accused Gibbons of pushing her up against a wall and propositioning her in a parking garage near a restaurant-bar where they had met earlier in the night. Gibbons, in statements to police and at a news conference with his wife last week, said he walked Mazzeo the garage, caught her when she tripped and walked away. Both Mazzeo and Gibbons, a five-term congressman from Reno, told police they had been drinking. Gibbons had been with Rogich and other supporters and Mazzeo had been with Puhek at the bar. Puhek bought drinks for the Gibbons party and the two women then joined the group. Mazzeo chose not to press charges the next day, shortly after Gibbons was interviewed by police for the first time. She did not recant her story, but told police she did not want to "go up against" a congressman.'

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. WOW. They threatened to kill her?

That's so, so, so......repuke-ish, isn't it?

[ProgressiveEconomist]

2. Lots of people in Las Vegas must be pretty desperate for money

to pay gambling debts. Life may be pretty cheap there.

[KAZ]

3. And WTF that does that mean? n/t

n/t

[ProgressiveEconomist]

4. Wonkette calls it "the old Bugsy Siegel goodbye"

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/nevada/rape-murder-its-just-a-shot-away-208829.php?mail2=true

[KAZ]

6. Gotcha. Thanks! n/t

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[KingFlorez]

5. Things just keep getting crazier

If it's not one crazy story, it's another. I've never seen an election cycle with this much drama.

[helderheid]

7. you said it!