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Reader Mailbag: About Those Nevada Tapes. . .

Reader GB has some good questions about that hours-long surveillance tape from the parking garage purported to be recorded on the night Gibbons allegedly assaulted a young woman, which shows neither the Republican gubernatorial hopeful nor his accuser, Chrissy Mazzeo -- only an occasional security guard, and a white cat:

It's odd that no one, not just Mazzeo and Gibbons but no one at all, appears in the tapes -- why would no one be going to or from their cars on a busy Friday night; the garage is between the restaurant where the event happened, a popular bar (Gordon Biersch) and two other restaurant/bars, plus the office complex where lots of law firms (and [Gibbons adviser Sig] Rogich) have offices.

Moreover, a charity auction was taking place in a large tent in the outdoor portion of the parking lot that night (which is why Mazzeo was at M&C ) -- which meant more than the usual # of people would have been parked in the garage.

And once the rain let up, there should have been a lot of people going to their cars.

But no one is in the tapes at all. Other than a security guard occasionally, who is conspicuously not carrying an umbrella or rain gear.

(TPM)