Scandal rocks Nevada governor's race

[ck4829]

Nevada's race for governor was barely a contest at all until it took a scandalous turn a few weeks ago, when a cocktail waitress accused Rep. Jim Gibbons of trying to sexually assault her in a parking garage after a night of drinking just off the Las Vegas Strip.

The lurid allegations in the closing weeks of the campaign have put the race back in play and put the one-time Republican front-runner on the defensive. Policy issues have taken a back seat to dueling news conferences, a burgeoning criminal investigation and a mystery over what exactly is on the parking garage's surveillance video.

Gibbons, a conservative five-term congressman from Reno and the only member in the House to have served in both the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars, had held a nine-point lead in September over liberal Democrat Dina Titus, a state lawmaker and political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

In a possible measure of how much damage the scandal has done, President Bush is headed to Nevada for the second time in a month, with a speech scheduled Thursday in Gibbons' solidly Republican congressional district.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061031/ap_on_el_gu/nevada_governor_7

[ewoden]

1. Thar coctail waitress should apologize to John Kerry >>>>>>

For besmirching the reputation of a Vietnam Vet.

Aw hell i grow so confused lately.

[angstlessk]

2. Sorry, vets who assult women are not the same as a vet being assulted

for a joke that was anti bush..and not anti troops...

Gee if you are so confused, maybe you should stay home Tuesday?

[ewoden]

3. sorry i don't have a sarcasm thingy