When Governor Jim Gibbons (R-NV) was photographed in a parking lot, arms around a female companion, his reply was that he was merely comforting a friend. “She was upset, crying,” he told the Nevada Appeal, who published the pictures on Friday. “She couldn’t catch her breath. I put my arms around her.”
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