Talk:Sig Rogich

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The article doesn't appear to be balanced, because the only references, at the bottom, are from the Las Vegas Sun, to which Rogich has consulted with on a daily basis for years. To give the appearance of balance, references from Las Vegas Review-Journal articles might be helpful.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Crscott (talk • contribs) 01:33, 24 March 2007

This article is a disaster!

This article is not only badly constructed and badly written, most of is filled with material totally irrelevant about Jim Gibbons and the disproven Chrissy Mazzeo allegations that the then-Republican gubenatorial candidate (now governor of Nevada) had assaulted her in a parking lot. The material is, at best, only tangenitally related to Rogich and seemed only to serve to smear Gibbons.

The article was also in way major violation of POV--especially the section on the controvesy about Rogich's bar.

How can this sentence: Rogich is a consultant to several of the council members who tossed the topless-bar premium his way. be interpreted as anything but a partisan attack on Rogich and the council. I edited the section to conform with NPOV as best I could.

This is the Mazzeo stuff I removed because, to reiterate, it has no reasonable place in the article.

===Involvement in alleged assault by Jim Gibbons=== On October 13, 2006, Gibbons, Rogich, and four women, including a cocktail waitress, Chrissy Mazzeo, were drinking together at McCormick & Schmick's restaurant. Afterwards, Gibbons walked Mazzeo to her truck, parked in a Hughes Center parking garage. At that point, according to reports, "Mazzeo told police that Gibbons grabbed her arms, threw her up against a wall in the parking garage and tried to coerce her into having sex. Gibbons said he merely was helping Mazzeo find her truck when she stumbled just before they entered the garage and he grabbed her arms to break her fall." Mazzeo went to police and claimed that if there were surveillance tapes for the garage, they would prove her allegatsions. The next day, police contacted the garage and were told that no tapes existed, whereupon Mazzeo decided to drop the charges. Tapes did exist, however. On October 25 Mazzeo held a press conference in which she claimed that some in Gibbons' camp had pressured her to drop the investigation, and that she would cooperate if the case were re-opened. On that same day, the real estate firm that managed the garage turned the tapes over to the police, and a few days later this became public knowledge. At that point, Mazzeo reinstated her complaint and the police resume their investigation.

Complicating the matter is not only the 11-day loss of "chain of custody", but the many ties that Gibbons has to the various parties involved: the real estate firm is a major supporter of Gibbons and held a fundraiser for him the night before the incident. Rogich, Gibbons' campaign consultant and drinking partner that night, was previously a lobbyist for the real estate firm, and has a company that leases offices from the firm. Additionally, Gibbons and then-Sheriff Bill Young investigating the case, share the same lawyer, Don Campbell, and the case was initially heard by District Judge Douglas Herndon, who "owes his seat on the bench in part to Sig Rogich."

The article still needs a fuller rewrite and, as the first post points out, there's very few references. I plan to provide them at a future date.

PainMan 05:55, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

It looks okay to me. It shows a significant connection between Rogich and the incident and is properly cited. It should probably cut-to-the-chase, and not have so much content about the primary (Gibbons) allegation, since in this article we are interested in Rogich's involvement, if any. If the allegations have been disproven, feel free to add that in, with a citation. Cmprince 13:22, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

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