Embattled Nevada GOP Governor Sent 850 Text Messages In One Month To Alleged Mistress

Gov. Jim Gibbons used his state-owned cell phone to send more than 850 text messages in one month last year to the woman he's accused of having an affair with, according to documents obtained by the Reno Gazette-Journal.

The records reveal a flurry of text messages between Gibbons and a cell phone owned by Kathy Karrasch, the estranged wife of a Reno doctor. Gibbons, who filed for divorce earlier this year, has been seen in Reno on several outings with Karrasch since his marital troubles with first lady Dawn Gibbons became public.

In a court brief filed two weeks ago, Dawn Gibbons accused her husband of ending their 22-year marriage because of his "infatuation and involvement" with the wife of a Reno doctor. That woman has never been officially named by Dawn Gibbons or her lawyer.

Jim Gibbons denies having an inappropriate relationship with Karrasch, describing her as a friend of 15 years.

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Comments

[VOTER]

MCCAIN/GIBBONS 2008

Republican Family Value Christians................

Any problems?

[tschlak]

Can somebody find out if he campaigned on "family values"? Or maybe he was for open marriages, or even polygamy, so you couldn't accuse him of being hypocritical at least.

[filo]

She's a "close friend of 15 years" ???

THAT'S not hypocritical???

[MsBrina]

Gibson sexually attack a drunk women while running for office. Enough said!

BTW....All Republicans run on family values, while their mistress or gay lover, sits by the phone, awaiting their call.

[MsBrina]

correction..."a drunk woman" ...not women ugh!

[Tropiholic]

But he says they're only "friends"? roflmao

[VOTER]

McCain is so impressed with this guy's computer skills that he is now at the

TOP OF MCCAIN'S VP LIST.

[KillTheMessenger]

But he is NOT gay. Thus totally electable. I mean, as far as we know he is not a cross dresser and the girlfriend is not a lesbian. And as far as we know, Obama is also not a Muslim. Right?

[MRb1000]

Now, this state should be won by the Democratic party. This guy screwed the republicans!

[MsBrina]

Nevada was once a democratic state, that is until ma and pa kettle started making it a retirement spot.

[ksjohnso]

Oh Gov. Gibson, how-mayor-of-Detroit of you to text. What is up with these idiot public officials using government issues phones. It is not so much that they have affairs and text people, it is how they go about doing it and get caught. It is so simple and so much cheaper to get a personal phone to text these women. Less potential of a record and it would have been considered a personal matter.

[Bluejay00234]

GOP= Hypocrites.

[Americanium]

So?? Where's the beef?

[filo]

USDA Grade A Hypocrisy !!!!!!

[the964kid]

Dayum.

[AurigaRa]

but he's OLD
and she's YOUNG

What's up with that???

[olivia]

Don't these people know that every word we speak over the phone, every keystroke we type, is recorded and stored away?

[Syco]

thats nothing
i send about 4000 a month

[lippp]

to your mistress/lover ?

[MsBrina]

lmao

[RosalieRMX]

This is what I love about american liberalism. The same news as conservatives. Who cares? It's private.

[JessWonderin]

23.5 Messages a DAY . . . for a working public SERVANT??? Slow times in the Gov's office?

May be "private" but using PUBLIC RESOURCES and PUBLIC time paying attention to your little head gets you in trouble . . . Clintons was "private" but didn't stop Pron Starr and Friends . . .

But you are right . . . he is a Republican . . . and exploiting your office is a core "Family Value" ('magine the Doctor married to "mistress" didn't appreciate his taxes paying fro his wife's "government access" . . .)