Jimbo Eruptions

The article "everybody" has been waiting for is posted on the internet.

The "other women's" response, just for the record:

The three women reported to have been involved with Gov. Jim Gibbon — Kathy Karrasch, Leslie Sferrazza Durant, and Lizanne Stoever — all say they are just close friends with the governor.

Both Karrasch and Durant say they are “best friends” with the governor. Stoever says she cares about both Jim and Dawn Gibbons but declined to make a statement.

“I refuse to give credibility to her fantasy,” Karrasch says of first lady Dawn Gibbon’s accusations that the Reno mother of seven was involved with the governor dating back to 2000. “We have never had an affair, and we are just friends.”

Karrasch says that the more than 800 text messages between the two, uncovered by the Reno Gazette-Journal before he filed for divorce, were about work.
“He thinks I’m smart. I’m not a dummy, and he wanted advice on things like personnel issues,” Karrasch says.

She says she did not see anything inappropriate about attending an event at the mansion, even as the first lady was living in an apartment in the backyard.
“Perception is in the eye of the beholder,” she says when asked if she thought the governor’s appearance at her daughter’s school play the night after he filed for divorce was inappropriate.

“He (the governor) is like an uncle to my kids,” she says.

“I’ve been alone with him, and if he wanted to take advantage, he had opportunity. But he sees me as a friend, best friend. I’m more like a sister.”

She says she believes much of Dawn Gibbon’s attacks on her are because the first lady is jealous.

“I am an excellent wife and mother, and I was always a great friend to her.”

On the governor’s divorce she says, “I know in all honesty it has nothing to do with another woman. He is the most loyal, honest, and faithful husband.”

“I am his very best friend,” Durant says when asked about her relationship with the governor. “He was in the hospital holding my hand when I had my son.”

She says she always was with family or friends on the occasions when she has been spotted with the governor, and calls the public divorce “atrocious.”

“The fact that this is being played out in the media is sad,” she says.

She says she is not bothered by the perception that she is romantically linked to the governor.

“It’s Reno, and I don’t really care about their opinions,” she says. “No one matters to me except my family.”