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Opinion: Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons has no comment on being named a worst governor, then begins commenting

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It usually happens when there’s a sports controversy. The athlete in question says ‘no comment’ and then starts commenting. And the comments, which they weren’t going to give, are usually pretty good.

It happens in politics too -- not as much because most politicians have some media training. Maybe Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons was out that day.
A Nevada TV reporter asked Gibbons about being included on the list of ‘the nation’s most incompetent and unethical governors’ put out by the DC-based group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics.

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The Republican governor began by saying ‘First of all, I really have no comment.’ Then he started commenting.

This ‘report that was filled with false allegations, misstatements, inaccuracies and for them, a group, Washington, DC-based, telling Nevadans what they should think makes me really wonder what they’re up to.’

OK. That’s safe enough. He violated the ‘no comment, then comment’ rule, but he cast some doubt on the study and now can leave. Right?
No, he wasn’t done.

‘I think this is something that really doesn’t deserve to even be acknowledged,’ he acknowledged.

Then despite the problems he sees with the report, and that it shouldn’t be commented on or acknowledged he said, ‘That’s OK with me’ because he’s in ‘great company’ mentioning Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson are on the list too.
OK. So now he likes the report?

Yes. Except... No. And then he says that the group has a ‘small mind.’

So how did he feel about being on the list?

No comment.

-- Jimmy Orr

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