EDITORIAL: ‘I’m Joe Lombardo’ — oh, my!

They don’t call political campaign time the “silly season” for nothing. Take the news this week that Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, was recently pulled over for a minor traffic violation but was not given a ticket after identifying himself to the officer who initiated the stop. Watergate this is not. Yet to hear some Nevada Democrats tell it, you would think the governor had been busted for driving intoxicated down the Strip at 125 mph and then tried to bribe the cop who pulled him over. “Lombardo was caught using his position of power to avoid accountability after breaking the law and being pulled over by a Metro police officer trying to do their (sic) job,” reads a statement from the Nevada State Democratic Party that borders on parody. The Democratic Governors Association, looking to