It has to be a joke right? $20K for portrait of Governor Jim Gibbons

Carson City, NV (Jun 25) – In a state with the highest unemployment rate in the country, along with the notoriety of being dead last in education, not just 50th, but 51st, now Nevada taxpayers will be footing the bill for a $20,000 portrait of outgoing Governor Jim Gibbons.

Gibbons, famous for losing a re-election bid on June 8th, and the only sitting Nevada Governor to have ever done so, will now cost the residents of Nevada even more money.

Sources within the capital say there was a lot of joking going on, including a remark that $5,000 for his portrait should be enough. However, the Board of Examiners did vote to appropriate 20 grand so that a Gibbons portrait can be commissioned, painted, and hung with past Governors.

The Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee approval to use money from “a contingency fund” is expected to go unchallenged.

Gibbons, et. al are taking huge chunks out of education, tossing teachers and school supplies aside like so much dead weight, challenging firefighters salaries, and police man power, all in the lame name of balancing a huge budget deficit. Akin to trimming toenails when serious exploratory surgery is needed.

Oh, and don’t forget to throw in suing the federal government because said government agreed to help Nevada, and add a dash of infidelity while counting. All this in a state already reeling and so deeply underwater no one is sure when we will resurface.

Yet it is just peachy to spend $20,000 on a loser’s portrait.

Ask around. There is sure to be plenty of unemployed talent willing to do it for say $100.

Posted by public on June 25, 2010. Filed under Money,Opinion Editorial,Political Satire,WorldNewsVine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.