Jimbo Eruptions.

Now that Jimbo has quit seeing Kathy Karrasch because of all of the negative publicity surrounding the "friendship," he has hardly been lonely. Here he is seen at the Reno Rodeo with Leslie Durant, who I wrote about a couple of weeks ago having had two short, stormy marriages with former Reno mayor Pete Sferrazza.

A snip:

Our photographer, Brad Horn, was there covering rodeo events, but changed his focus when he noticed the governor and his companion. We didn’t run this photo, and others that are now on our Web site, at the time largely because we wanted to give our estranged-from-his-wife governor a chance to comment.

In the interim, we did a little checking on our own and now know his companion to be the ex-Playboy-model, ex-wife of an ex-Reno mayor. She is not the woman with whom he has widely been accused of having an affair of late and with whom he exchanged hundreds of text messages at all hours. But he has been seen around Reno with this woman, too. In fact, there are cell phone pictures of the two together at a Reno restaurant posted on area blogs.

With the governor's explanation in hand, any trepidation I may have had about running the photo is gone. I believe, in fact, that the photo is perfectly illustrative of the enigma that is Gov. Jim Gibbons. But, most of all, I believe it is something that many Nevadans want to know about, and there is no reason why I should prevent that from happening.

Obviously, Jimbo has moved on to somebody else, and he can protest all he wants. He certainly doesn't care if people see him with another woman.



The Nevada Appeal's Brad Horn no doubt thought this was more important than photographing bronco riding or calf roping.

HT to the Las Vegas Gleaner for noting Gibbons is always there when a woman needs help in a parking lot.