Calling it a "partisan attack," Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons has responded to an ethics complaint filed by the state Democratic Party, which accuses him of abusing his post to get a property tax discount. The complaint filed last month by state Democratic Party Executive Director Travis Brock accuses the governor of pressuring Elko County Assessor Joe Aguirre to designate 40 acres of land Gibbons owned as agricultural, qualifying it for a lower tax rate. Gibbons sent a letter to the state Ethics Commission, asking that "all files, material and information" related to the complaint be made public. The governor denies he pressured Aguirre, and says the complaint's evidence consists of "four newspaper articles," a video from a political TV show and a radio station interview. Gibbons calls the charges "nothing more than wild hearsay and unsupported allegations."
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