REPUBLICANS BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF... THEY FOUND A GOP CONGRESSMAN IN A SEX SCANDAL THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE TEENAGE BOYS!

After all that icky stuff about Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley asking 16 year old boys to measure their penises for him-- followed by him getting soused and trying to break into their dormitory late one night, eager to personally confirm the reported measurements-- and Arizona Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe with his camping trips with high school boys, and Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Phil English with the teenage male prostitutes, and Illinois Republican Congressman Denny Hastert with the nearly all gay staff-- can you imagine what happy hour was like there???-- covering up for all the sexual predators... well, the GOP is practically bragging about Nevada Republican Congressman Jim Gibbons. He's not a gay sex predator-- just a sex predator.

Gibbons-- like Don Sherwood (R-PA)-- seems to think it's ok to beat up women who spurn your gross sexual advances. "A few weeks ago it seemed five-term Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nev.) would cruise to victory in his bid to be governor. But last week Las Vegas casino cocktail waitress Chrissy Mazzeo said Gibbons shoved her against the wall of a restaurant parking garage and threatened her when she rejected his sexual advances." Taking a creative note from his Pennsylvania pal Sherwood (who claimed he wasn't choking his young mistress but massaging her; he later paid several million dollars to make up for the "massage"), Gibbons said that during the Oct. 13 encounter, he was just trying to help Mazzeo when she appeared to be falling down.

That scandal isn't going away-- even though another one has already popped up. In fact, a Gibbons operative has offered Ms. Mazzeo some hush money if she'll just STFU and let him win his race. The victim of Sherwood's "massage" got millions. Wonderers in Nevada are wondering what Gibbons is offering. Now, aside from trying to portray himself as an upstanding Christian gentleman who would never make a dirty grab at a cocktail waitress, let alone ask her for a bj, Gibbons is all about cracking down on "illegals." He's about as bad as Tancredo and Musgrave and Graf, although no one has ever photographed him in full KKK regalia.

Why is this relevant? KLAS broke a big story a day or two ago that deals with an entirely different aspect of Gibbons unsuitability for public office. While he was running around screaming that we should be rounding up immigrants and deporting them, he was hiding one in his basement and paying her slave wages to work for him-- for years (1987 ''til 1993). Gibbons wife has been caught blatantly lying about this. "KLAS reporter George Knapp obtained documents showing that the Gibbons tried to obtain legal status for Pastor; among them was an employment agreement signed by Dawn Gibbons and Pastor [the Peruvian immigrant in question], which said Pastor worked from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. six days a week for $800 a month. Pastor said she was always paid in cash, Knapp reported, and no Social Security or other benefits were paid." Still... better than another Republican congressman-- or gubernatorial candidate-- caught in bed with another live boy.


UPDATE: MORE BAD NEWS FOR THE REPUGS-- A SURVEILLANCE CAMERA CAUGHT GIBBONS TRYING TO GET THE COCKTAIL WAITRESS TO GIVE HIM A BJ IN A PARKING GARAGE

Gibbons is like the non-gay/non-pedophile Mark Foley. And now there's proof. Can you say Governor Titus?