Parking lot rapist Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) threatens to veto Nevada Domestic Partner bill.

[Ian David]

Nevada governor threatens domestic partner bill veto
By 365gay Newscenter Staff
04.15.2009 11:27am EDT

(Carson City, Nevada) Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) has thrown down the gauntlet on domestic partner legislation currently before the state Senate, saying that if the bill reaches his desk he will veto it.

“I just don’t believe in it,” he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Gibbons said he did not think voters agreed with the bill either and noted that in California, voters approved a ballot question last November barring same-sex marriage.

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The bill states domestic partners would have the “same rights, protections, benefits, responsibilities, obligations and duties” as traditionally married couples and be subject to the same divorce laws, such as those involving community property.

The bill also has been amended to state public sector employers would not be required to provide health care benefits to employees partners. It does not block similar benefits from being provided in the private sector.

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By ED VOGEL
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The popularity ratings of her governor-husband, Jim, remain lower than American support for the war in Iraq. And about the time they were moving into the mansion in January, the Wall Street Journal reported a federal grand jury was investigating whether Jim Gibbons took bribes when he was in Congress.

Jim Gibbons is being investigated on charges he accepted money, trips and gifts from Warren Trepp, a Reno businessman, in exchange for helping him secure federal contracts.

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During the governor's campaign last October, Jim Gibbons was accused by 32-year-old cocktail waitress Chrissy Mazzeo of pushing her against a parking garage wall and making unwanted sexual advances. Gibbons told police he only helped Mazzeo up after she had fallen.

The incident occurred after Jim Gibbons, Mazzeo, political consultant Sig Rogich and others had been drinking in a Las Vegas restaurant. Gibbons told police he drank two glasses of wine, although a waitress said there had been heavy drinking by people at the table. No charges were brought against Gibbons in the incident.

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[joeybee12]

1. She's now filed a civil suit alleging the police were in on the cover-up....

and Gibbons wife has filed for divorce...nice family values.

[enlightenment]

2. As much as I abhor this man - and I do and I live in Nevada -

Gibbons was not charged with rape. He was accused of assaulting the young woman in the parking garage. He is a cretin of the first order.

I'm all for seeing this wretch tied in a canvas bag and put in a small corral with a large number of wild horses, but please don't weaken your very good argument with false accusations.