posted by Alan Greenblatt
A Nevada Appeal photographer spotted Gov. Jim Gibbons holding hands at the rodeo with a woman who turned out to be an ex-Playboy playmate and ex-wife of an ex-Reno mayor. The paper held a photo of the two embracing in the parking lot until it could get comment from Gibbons.

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