Nevada governor says 2 a.m. text messages to married woman were a "mistake"

[Bluebear]

CARSON CITY -- Gov. Jim Gibbons said Wednesday he made a "mistake" in using a state cell phone to send more than 850 text messages in March and April 2007 to the Reno woman with whom he has been accused of being involved.

During a news conference, Gibbons also denied having a sexual relationship with Kathy Karrasch, the estranged wife of Reno podiatrist C. Craig Karrasch, and insisted the messages were not love notes, but conversations about her dog, children and state government matters, even taxes.

The messages were sent only in response to messages Karrasch first sent him, he said...

After learning the state had been billed for his messages to Karrasch, Gibbons said he wrote two checks, for a total of $130, to cover those costs, and began using his private cell phone for text messages and calls to friends. Gibbons said he had assumed text messaging was free with his cell phone service.

He said he continues to frequently text people using his personal phone, including friends and staff members, often at 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. "Just ask Patty Wade (a campaign adviser) or Dani or Jim Denton (friends and political consultants). I am a person who sleeps very little, two hours or three hours a night. I am constantly sitting there thinking about issues." :rofl:

http://www.lvrj.com/news/19817214.html

[geckosfeet]

1. Correction. More than 850 mistakes.

[Patsy Stone]

2. Aren't they always?

I mean, really...

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Suck it up, Jim

Go get'im, Dawn! :rofl:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

4. Isn't he the one who was accused of stalking and assaulting a woman? nt

[ljm2002]

12. Not stalking, exactly...

...she was part of his group at a casino as they all got soused into the wee hours. Then he "walked her to her car" in the parking garage where, she alleged, he tried to assault her...

The ever-present cameras ought to have caught the whole thing so we would have known who was telling the truth and who wasn't. But the tapes for that very camera mysteriously went missing! Imagine that!

What a jerk.

[TomInTib]

5. Hey, some people DO make mistakes at 2 a.m......

Thank heavens I never do.

You, Bluebear?

[Bluebear]

8. No. But then again, I am not up all night thinking about "issues"

Yeah, that's the ticket, thinking about issues! :hi:

[TomInTib]

10. "issues" with "tissues"

Holy Moly, the guy talks as if he expects people to believe what he is saying.

[brooklynite]

6. I agree with the Governor...

You get a much better response if you send a full frontal body shot from your cell phone camera...

[Forkboy]

7. Note he doesn't apologize for being with a married woman.

Just the "mistake" of using a state cell phone to do it.

[KamaAina]

9. Guess which word does not appear in the article?

If you said "Republican", you win!! :eyes:

[aquart]

13. That's how you KNOW.

If it was a Democrat, it would have been in the lead paragraph.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. Should I try to text with you....

25 or 6 to 2 oooo oooo :D