I am constantly confused by Jim Gibbons having become the governor of Nevada. What strange set of facts could possibly have come together to elect this man whose every characteristic supports one cause — Jim Gibbons. The man has absolutely no regard for the welfare of any other human being. [Nevada Appeal]

Rather than a governor, Nevadans elected an executioner. Did he snooker us all? Was he able to camouflage himself to such an extent and hide behind so many empty slogans that a majority of Nevada would vote for this man in the empty suit, for an ideology that has three simple words, “no new taxes”?

These words from Gibbons’ mouth represent a total lack of understanding of the purpose of government. His words also evidence no understanding of the devastation these three little words can cause.

If implemented, the political and economic policy of this man in the empty suit will shut down Nevada’s programs to provide health care for children and care for the elderly who have no way to care for themselves.

His policies will permanently injure students who hope to grab a part of what used to be the American dream — to get a college education. Without support from the state, that dream will be denied.

Gibbons calls himself a conservative Republican. I am told his political and economic policies may be more closely aligned to the Libertarians. My own feeling is that Gibbons is neither a conservative Republican nor a Libertarian. He is simply a greedy, uninterested, unengaged human being whose only, and I mean only, goal is to see what Gibbons can do for himself and his greedy friends.

So wrote Jim Rogers, chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education. And this is a Republican sizing up another Republican. I concur with Mr. Rogers about being “confused” by Gibbons becoming governor. I don’t blame Gibbons for that—I blame Nevada voters for electing him. Those voters ignored all that baggage Gibbons was dragging along with him when he ran for governor. Yet Nevada’s voters cast aside Dina Titus going for Gibbons instead.

Why? Beats me! If she was rejected because she has a southern accent then Nevada’s voters are far worse off than I have heretofore believed. Yes, it is additional evidence that Nevada voters are their own worse enemy.

Update February 26, 2009: Governor Gibbons doesn’t want to deal with Chancellor Rogers anymore. Governor Jim Gibbons is asking the Board of Regents to give him someone other than Rogers to deal with. [Las Vegas Review Journal]

Erin Neff, a former columnist for the Las Vegas Review Journal, has launched a new website-blog. [Progress Now Nevada] I learned about her new venture in today’s Review Journal. [Review Journal]

I had the pleasure of meeting Erin one day at some political event in Las Vegas. She knew I wrote this Nye-Gateway to Nevada’s Rurals blog. I certainly was aware she was a columnist for the RJ. I was happy to learn she had been on this blog. I rarely conceive that anyone reads this blog so it was most gratifying to learn she had.

I’m pleased to pass on to any of you out there the location of her Progress Now Nevada site and encourage you to look it over. I know I will be following her writings on that site. I signed up today to follow her on Twitter. Having said this I will now return to her site and see what else I can learn.

Oh, I also added the Progress Now Nevada link to the list of links to other websites you will find on the right hand column of this blog.

Good luck Erin. You will be a source of information for this blogger from now on.