February 23, 2010 10:31 PM UTC

At Least He's Not Your Celibate Western Governor

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• by: RedGreen

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

He denied playing footsie with Mazzeo under the table because, he said, he was wearing cowboy boots.

That’d be Gov. Jim Gibbons (R-Nevada), who laid bare the embarrassing details of his life in a lengthy deposition taken by a lawyer representing Chrissy Mazzeo. The Las Vegas cocktail waitress has filed a civil suit alleging the drunken governor groped her in a parking garage. Gibbons won reelection after the allegations surfaced — and he denied them — but is facing a tough primary challenge and a divorce battle with his wife.

In the deposition, Gibbons denied taking bribes or kickbacks, denied keeping a “love condo” with Mazzeo, and denied having sex with his wife — at least since 1995.

That’s right, Nevada’s governor swore under oath he’s been celibate for the last 15 years, and he likes it.

“I’m living proof that you can survive without sex for that long,” Gibbons said.

But don’t expect him to joke about it:

When asked whether he had been flirty or had told any raunchy jokes while having cocktails with Mazzeo and others, Gibbons said he wasn’t a good joke teller and said he did not know the meaning of the term “double entendre.”