It’s Big. It’s Yellow. It’s Scary.

I’m not kidding. Go look for yourself.

The Nevada Democrats have notched up the attack on Gibbons’ decision to give water to the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Suppository. The most interesting bit is the stuff they dug up on Nye County Commissioner Joni Eastley (on the left), whom Gibbons appointed to the Nevada Nuclear Projects Division:

Eastley is arguably one of the state’s most vocal SUPPORTERS of Yucca Mountain:

Eastley told the Review-Journal in 2002 that she “sees a bright
future for Tonopah, a future that includes Yucca Mountain. For Eastley,
the benefits for Tonopah far outweigh its risks. ‘The people in this
community are very patriotic and they’re proud of the fact that they
had something to do with developing the storage facility for this
waste,’ she said as she sipped iced tea at a cafe on U.S. Highway 95,
one of the possible routes for high-level waste through Nevada. ‘Nye
County wants people to recognize that Yucca Mountain is not located in
Las Vegas,’ she said. ‘This is not located in Clark County. This is
located in our home.’ [“Yucca Mountain: Towns mixed on repository,” Las
Vegas Review Journal, July 14, 2002]

“When Nye County Commissioners passed a resolution on Yucca Mountain
in 2002, Eastley suggested the radioactive waste not be called waste
but ‘a potential resource.’” [“County wants special consideration in
Yucca Mountain issue,” Las Vegas View Neighborhood Newspapers, May 3,
2002]

Former Republican Gov. Kenny Guinn publicly contradicted Eastley in
2004 after she traveled to Reno and appeared on the “Nevada Newsmakers”
TV program “to argue that Nevada can’t stop storage of high-level
nuclear waste at the proposed Yucca Mountain dump. They (Eastley and
Nye/Esmeralda Economic Development Authority member Trish Rippie) said
Nye County has received large sums of money from the U.S. Department of
Energy, which administers the dump project, convincing the county to
drop its ‘aggressive neutrality’ toward the dump. [“Nye officials
discuss YMP on Reno station,” Pahrump Valley Times, Jan. 9, 2004]

Ah, good old Fibbins. He’s either caving into Bill Bob List and his Yucca buddies to try to hold onto his crumbling Gubeship, or he read Eastley’s personnel file with as much attention and care as he did Kenny Guinn’s budget when he passed that on to the Legislature in January. Jim Gibbons, sellout or incompetent boob. Take your pick. Heck. Pick both.

[UPDATE: the Gube claims he'll "rescind the appointment" of Eastley if learns she's a Yucca supporter. Well, now he knows. (AP)]