Only Two

of the eleven on the CREW list of worst governors in the country are Democrats (Richardson and Paterson). And guess who else is on the list?

• Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS);
• Gov. Donald Carcieri (R-RI);
• Gov. Jim Gibbons (R-NV);
• Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA);
• Gov. David Paterson (D-NY);
• Gov. Sonny Perdue (R-GA);
• Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX);
• Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM);
• Gov. Mike Rounds (R-SD);
• Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC); and
• Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA).

Here is the report on Gibbons.

A "highlight":

CHARGE FOUR: MISUSE OF STATE RESOURCES TO PURSUE AN AFFAIR
In the course of divorce proceedings, Nevada First Lady Dawn Gibbons revealed her suspicions that Gov. Gibbons was carrying on an affair with the wife of a Reno doctor.22 In June 2008, The Reno Gazette-Journal found documents that showed Gov. Gibbons had text-messaged his alleged mistress, Kathy Karrasch, 867 times over six weeks in 2007, racking up nearly $130 in charges on his state-owned cell phone.23 The marathon texting sessions included 91 texts sent between midnight and 2 a.m. one morning.24 The governor was forced to reimburse the state for the charges.25 He also made 42 calls on the state-issued phone to his alleged mistress, including
“two lengthy phone calls” during business hours.26 Gov. Gibbons denied having an
inappropriate relationship with Ms. Karrasch.27

In February 2010, Gov. Gibbons claimed Ms. Karrasch had not accompanied him to
Washington, D.C. for a conference, even though video evidence and a local news team showed the pair returning to the Reno airport together and leaving in the same car.28 When asked by a reporter, Gov. Gibbons claimed that he was giving Ms. Karrasch a ride home because they lived near each other, and not because she was returning from Washington, D.C. with him.29 The next day, the governor admitted that Ms. Karrasch had accompanied him but said she had paid her
own way.30