As the local papes catch up with the latest Wall Street Journal Report about latest Gibbons’ scandal, we learn today that Dawn didn’t get her job with defense contractor Sierra Nevada until after hubby then Congressman Jim Gibbons aided the company in getting a government contract for some helicopter radar:
"Sierra Nevada hired Mrs.
Gibbons’ firm after the appropriations process involving the helicopter
project was completed," [Sierra Nevada] company executive Renee Velasco said in the
statement. "Her compensation remains among the lowest of outside
experts we have ever engaged. However, she provided important work as a
public relations consultant, giving the corporation guidance in an area
where the corporation had little experience." (Sun)
So, it should make us feel better that Dawn didn’t get the job until after her husband had helped the company out? How does that make it look less like a quid pro quod?
And Sierra Nevada screwed over Dawn in the deal? Man, those Gibbonses can’t get anything right.
Jane Ann Morrison suggests a possible defense for the troubled first couple: plea that your marriage is a sham and that you never talk to each other. That’s it, Lowell! Call it the "marital deniabilty" defense and you’ll get you name into the law textbooks for sure. Don’t know how well that will sit with Mormons and the crazy core of the northern wing of the state War Party, when it comes time to campaign for re-election in three years. But, then again, Gibbons’ will be lucky to survive this year.
Hey Kids! Fascinating linguistic fact for the day: "quid pro quod" is Latin for "pay to play!" What’s Latin? A dead language you’ll never see taught in Vegas schools spoken by a dead civilization that collapsed after botching a world-wide program of nation-building. You know, what English will be in a few hundred years. Don’t forget to click that dog pic for some shameless pandering before civilization as we know it ends!
More gibber-ish-eeze… from prepared speech (plagiarized again?) in Elko:
“Do not be dissuaded by what you read from the media,” Gibbons said. “Lots of people are still not over the election and they’re trying to distract me.” Gibbons reminded the audience he has been through two wars — as a fighter pilot in Vietnam and the first Gulf War. “I’ve been shot at by real bullets … enough is enough.”
My $100 bill bets that he was not a fighter pilot in Viet Nam… he likely never did more than pass through there. Definitely NOT as a fighter pilot in Nam.
He did not have bullets firing at him… if he did the shooters were wasting their ammo.
BURP!
The quid is often paid after the quo. As in; “in one of those e-mails, eTreppid executive Len Glogauer wrote in September 2003: ‘Jim really hit the ground running on that one … we need to take care of him like we discussed.’” (Sun; Coolican)
On September 30, 2003, FEC records show that Trepp makes two donations of $2,000 each to J Gibbons; Len Glogauer made a $1,000 donation to J Gibbons on September 30, 2003; and Wayne Prim, friend of all three, donates $1,677 on October 1, 2003.
Again, the donations occured AFTER the party of the first part….
But that’s just the reported “donations”. What about things like all that money Trepp’s wife emailed him to remember to bring on the (unreported) yacht cruise for Jim and Dawn.
They likely brought it in a suitcase… or some brown paper bags… with no paper trail.
Wife: “Please don’t forget to bring the money you promised Jim and Dawn.”
Husband’s response: “Delete this email immediately.”
BURP!
yes, they are the reported donations; but like duke cunningham, the money was handed over after the work was done, as in “we need to take care of him”.
Remember that as it relates to allegations of trepp “giving” casino chips to gibbons,the gibber said that “if he had turned them in, there would be a record of it.” Have you ever turned in casino chips? Was there a ‘record’? No. UNLESS! the amount trips the reporting level of $10,000. Mmmm, strange comment to make; but off the cuff comments in the spur of the moment often times are pretty close to the truth.
Congressman Bob Ney took home some $50,000 in casino chips from london, got caught and went to jail.