Some guy by the name of James B. Gibson has signed up to run for governor of Nevada. I’m guessing that’s the same guy as Jim Gibson, current mayor of Henderson who’s looking to make himself look a little less like Jim Gibbons.
Had to add that extra "B", tho. Why do you suppose he wanted the very "B" he once called the killer "B"?
Hey Kids! You can own your very own Gibson Killer B!
[Update: Berkley's signed up for CD1. And if you want to see your little mouse arrow in drag, head over to her campaign site. I'm glad she didn't vote for for the Budget Busting Republican Tax Cuts for Fat Cats currently in conference. Wednesday, she voted for a motion to instruct the unhappy members trying to reconcile House and Senate versions of H.R. 4297, the Deficit Extension and Fat Cat Welfare Acf of 2005, to this effect:
Th[e] motion has two simple yet important provisions. First, it
closes over $5 billion in unneeded tax loopholes and subsidies for oil
companies. It eliminates the “last in/first out,” LIFO, accounting
method for oil companies, which amounts to $4.3 billion over the next
10 years. It prohibits oil companies from writing off costs associated
with oil and gas exploration, which is about $292 million over the next
10 years. It limits the foreign tax credit that companies receive for
the taxes they pay to oil-producing countries.This rollback amounts to, for oil companies, a mere $540 million a year and $135 million each quarter.
To put this in appropriate perspective, this represents
approximately 1.6 percent of Exxon’s first-quarter profits in 2006
alone. Second, it ends the extension of lower capital gains and
dividends tax rates. (John Larson, D-Conn, in the Congressional Record (pdf.))
This common sense motion was voted down by Congressional Republicans, including, natch, Jim Gibbons and Jon Porter.]
His name is James Brinley Gibson. That is what his name plate says at city hall, he didn’t just decide to go by that.
Yes, he did decide how his name will appear on the ballot. Gibbons chose “Jim Gibbons” because he has spent his political career associating himself with that informal version of his name. Gibbons could have opted for “James A. Gibbons” instead. So Gibson could have chosen to list his name as “Jim Gibson” or “James Brinely Gibson” but he didn’t. I suspect that many consultant man-hours go into selecting what version of a politician’s name appears on the ballot.
And even Gibson himself thinks it’s appropriate to poke fun at people’s names. I didn’t invent the “killer B”.
His name has appeared on every ballot for mayor as James B. Gibson.