We’re not sure, but we think that our colleague Anjeanette Damon gets so many scoops because there’s really nothing to do up in Reno, where she lives. That’s why she nailed this one: Gov. Jim Gibbons‘ press secretary, Melissa Subbotin, has quit. She’s leaving at month’s end.
It’s only the latest departure in a string of high-profile resignations, but we can’t say we’re totally surprised. Subbotin was on the front lines of a hot war defending Gibbons from the media onslaught on everything from failing to disclose a preexisting medical condition to lying about why he was sworn in at midnight to appointing a lawyer for a bankrupt subprime lender to oversee mortgage companies to creating secret legal defense funds in violation of state law.
Hell, we’re surprised she stuck around this long. Dealing with people like us at Various Things & Stuff had to be one of the worst jobs in the entire state.
We will say this about Subbotin: We always found her to be forthright, even if she was a bit of a Gibbons true believer. She never gave us false information, and almost always returned our calls and e-mails, regardless of the fact that she knew we regard the governor as Nevada’s worst ever. We got a chance to sit down with her over lunch during the 2007 Legislature, and found her to be a perfectly delightful person when the conversation wasn’t about her boss. And hey, anybody who chose to go to school in San Diego can’t be all bad.
So, we’ll actually miss Subbotin, undoubtedly far more than she’ll miss us.
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