MUTH’S TRUTHS

What with all that was going on with the Conservative Leadership Conference earlier this month, I missed a story by Ed Vogel in the Las Vegas Review Journal about Assembly Minority Leader Garn “Maybe” Mabey being ousted by members of his own caucus.

Although the caucus officially denies our efforts to expose Mabey as a spineless sponge of a “leader” had any effect on their decision to throw him under the bus, we all know the truth. For the good of the state, as well as the Republican Party, Mabey needed to go - and your calls and emails to his caucus members over the past year undoubtedly had an effect in sending him packing.

And while Mabey may be a timid, soft-spoken, gentle man, he’s also bitter about being rejected by his colleagues - and toward the woman elected to replace him, Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert of Reno. “When the governor says jump, she says ‘How high,’ ” Mabey said of Gansert. “She is also tight with (Senate Majority Leader Bill) Raggio.”

Real class, Garn.

First, it’s been my limited experience with Heidi Gansert that no one pulls her strings - except maybe her kids at dessert time. But for argument’s sake, let’s say Garn’s petty little dig at her is true. At least the governor and Sen. Raggio are fellow Republicans. The master’s voice Garn answered to in the last legislative session was Democrat Speaker Barbara Buckley.

Thank goodness the “Maybe” Mabey political era is finally coming to an end. Then again, recall that Garn said maybe (of course) he’d run against Sen. Harry Reid in 2010 - which I’m sure has Harry quaking in his boots.

Posted on October 29th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada