The "Other Woman" (NV Republican Governor Jim Gibbons' "Good Friend" Kathy Karrasch pens article)

I’ve been intimate with only two men in my life: my first boyfriend, whom I met at 16 and stayed with until 26; my husband, whom I married at 29, and have four children with.

For my generation, I’m fairly much a prude.

How is it, then, that for the past two years I’ve been portrayed in the media as “the other woman”? Mistress of the governor? Jezebel responsible for his marital breakup—one so nasty it’s made international headlines?

People magazine snickered about Gov. Jim Gibbons filing for divorce on grounds of incompatibility—moving out of the Governor’s Mansion in Carson City and demanding his wife vacate: “In legal documents, Dawn Gibbons replied to her husband’s move-out order with fury: She is described as ‘a castaway wife’ jilted by a husband who had ‘succumbed to the wiles’ of another woman—reportedly, the wife of a Reno podiatrist. ‘Lust is the real villain here,’ said her court documents.”

A Reno Magazine profile of Dawn Gibbons said: “Despite rumors of other women, the first lady says it’s his relationship with Karrasch that has been most hurtful to her.”