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James Arthur Gibbons (born December 16, 1944) is an American attorney, aviator, geologist, hydrologist and politician who was the 28th Governor of Nevada from 2007 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the U.S. representative for Nevada's 2nd congressional district from 1997 to 2006.
Guinn was first elected governor in 1998, defeating Democratic nominee Las Vegas Mayor Jan Laverty Jones, with 52% of the vote; Guinn became the first Republican elected governor of Nevada since 1978. When Guinn ran for re-election in 2002, he received 68% of the vote, defeating Democratic nominee state Senator Joe Neal, who received only 22%.
Nevada’s governor and his wife were accosted during the weekend by two men who followed them out of a Las Vegas restaurant shouting profanities, taunts and anti-government statements in an ...
Nevada governor bribery scandal During the run-up to the 2006 gubernatorial election, Dennis Montgomery accused gubernatorial candidate Jim Gibbons of accepting bribes while serving as a member of Congress to help Montgomery's company eTreppid Technologies secure military contracts for his terrorist software.
Sandoval was elected Nevada attorney general in 2002, and ousted the scandal-plagued Republican Governor Jim Gibbons in a 2010 primary. He has since gone on to become one of the most popular ...
Nevada was one of seven states across the country that Trump lost in 2020, where his campaign assembled slates of illegitimate electors. Trump and his allies then tried to use those fake GOP ...
The bureau advised Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto of the agency's proposed actions. [56] Clark County sheriff Doug Gillespie relayed information from the BLM and helped negotiate an end to the standoff. [ 57 ]
A man who police say took his own life during a call about a domestic disturbance is the same man who chased Governor Steve Sisolak at a restaurant earlier this year. Man who threatened Nevada ...