As reported here yesterday afternoon, Assemblywoman Francis Allen (R-Bates Motel) was arrested over the weekend for stabbing her husband of seven weeks during an argument and then telling him to call his mother when he asked for help with the wound. Late yesterday her lawyer, Richard Wright, issued the following statement: “Francis Allen denies the allegations set forth in the criminal complaint filed today. At the appropriate time, the true facts will become known and she will be exonerated.”
Wright is a high-profile attorney well known for defending elected officials in trouble; however, many Nevadans will remember him best as the guy who represented cocktail waitress Chrissy Mazzeo in 2006 after she accused now-Gov. Jim Gibbons of sexually assaulting her in a parking garage in Las Vegas just before the election. Wright also defended Clark County Commissioner Mary Kincaid in the G-Sting corruption case which landed her and former commissioners Dario Herrera, Erin Kenny and Lance Malone in the clink.
Despite having Wright on the case, many folks think “Psycho” Allen’s nascent political career is now kaput. “Today we mourn the death of the political career of Francis O. Allen, Republican Assemblywoman from Clark County,” writes Wally Edge in Politicker Nevada. “The career was a tender three years, six months old.”
Edge then reminds everyone that Allen was embroiled in the flap over legislators who accepted free Rolling Stones tickets from mortgage giant Ameriquest a couple years back. More recently, of course, was what Edge refers to as the “Assemblywoman Bridezilla” brouhaha surrounding her wedding back in March.
“(Allen) encouraged someone to donate liquor to her wedding in a way that made the gift giver feel the encouragement had pressure behind it,” writes Edge. “Then, there was the fiasco of stopping payment on the check to cover several thousand dollars in flowers for the event. The wedding was a scandal two-for-one.”
Knowing Allen’s blind political ambition, there’s no doubt she will try to hang onto her legislative seat rather than withdraw from the race and seek honest work as a door-to-door Ginsu saleswoman. But should she prevail against all the odds, we’re fairly certain the tension in the air surrounding those in the Assembly chamber seated near her will be thick enough to cut with a knife.
Um, sorry about that one.
Posted on May 21st, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
Get it? Ginsu saleswoman… cause she’s ASIAN!
Man, you crack me up, Chuck!
Or, do I just upchuck?
Theo, don’t be a jackass. The Ginsu reference was related to the fact that she stabbed her husband with a steak KNIFE. Ginsu knives? Get it now, genius?
Bad year for republic party…Allen allegedly left a knife in her new husband….
now the Elko paper has an editorial outing Governor for having an affair with another man’s wife…..
Ah, family values like these are a tough sell to the electorate.