Well folks, grab your popcorn, because the Democrat outrage machine has been cranked up to “HIGH.”
This time they’re losing their ever-loving minds because Governor Joe Lombardo missed one press conference.
That’s it. One. Uno. A single, solitary news conference about the recent cyberattack.
And now, the left is acting like he packed his bags and moved to Mars.
According to a breathless video shared by Democratic operatives (produced, by the way, by the Nevada State Democratic Party), Lombardo’s absence from the podium is apparently proof he doesn’t care, isn’t working, and is probably off golfing with Bigfoot somewhere.
But hang on a second. Let’s talk facts. Real, grown-up, not-manufactured-for-a-campaign-ad facts.
Lombardo may have skipped a press conference, but here’s what he didn’t skip: doing his actual job.
According to multiple reports, including his own office, the governor has been getting hourly updates on the cyberattack since it was discovered on August 24.
That’s right. While the Twitter mob was busy cutting attack ads, Lombardo was working the problem behind the scenes like a responsible adult.
Now let’s rewind a bit, shall we?
Remember Governor Steve Sisolak? Yeah, that guy.
The one who ran Nevada during the COVID-19 pandemic, when lives, jobs, and entire small towns were hanging by a thread? You remember his press conferences, right?
Oh wait. That’s because there weren’t many.
And when Sisolak did bother to hold a press conference, he limited the questions to a handful of pre-selected reporters who knew if they asked tough questions they’d be blacklisted in the future.
Just ask Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Victor Joecks.
Reporters acted like they were in a talent show audition trying to impress the judges. And you’d have had better luck getting an honest answer out of a Magic 8 Ball.
And this went on during a global pandemic that upended every Nevadan’s LIFE!
People were losing businesses, missing funerals, and wondering what the heck was going on.
Meanwhile, Governor “Shutdown” was hiding behind pre-screened softball questions on par with, “What’s your favorite color?”
Yet the same folks clutching their pearls over Lombardo missing one press conference were dead silent while Sisolak avoided the press like a vampire dodging sunlight.
Gimme a break.
Here’s what this is really about: politics. Pure, uncut, grade-A partisan theater.
The Nevada Democrats don’t actually care about transparency or press access.
If they did, they’d have been lighting torches and storming the Governor’s Mansion back when Sisolak was ducking the press during the biggest health crisis in a century.
But now that a Republican is in the big chair?
Suddenly, it’s a five-alarm fire if he misses a single press conference – even while actively working on the issue with hourly updates. It’s laughable.
And don’t think the voters aren’t smart enough to see it.
Back in 2022, Lombardo defeated Sisolak by over 15,000 votes, flipping Nevada redder than a fire truck in several precincts – even in Clark County.
The message was loud and clear: Nevadans were tired of the COVID chaos, the economic rollercoaster, and the governor who only showed up when it was time to read from a script.
Now those same voters are being told that this governor is “missing in action” because he didn’t show up for a press op? Puh-lease.
Look, most people in this state know what real leadership looks like. It’s not always flashy. It doesn’t always come with a camera crew.
Sometimes, it looks like staying in the trenches, getting hourly updates, and solving the damn problem instead of feeding cable news.
So here’s a little advice to the Nevada Democrats and their friends in the press:
Before you start throwing stones, you might want to check your own glass house. Because if dodging press conferences was a crime, Sisolak would’ve been in pinstripes doing hard time.
But hey, Dems – if you’re really craving another press conference, maybe Governor Lombardo can hold one just for you… right after he finishes fixing the problem you’re too busy politicizing.
Until then? Try not to sprain anything reaching for that moral high ground.
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