The Republican Governors Association held its fall meeting in Las Vegas this month and one of the only Republican governors who did not attend was the host-state governor, our own Gov. Brian Sandoval.Instead of joining his fellow chief executives to discuss just what went wrong in the elections this year and what to do to fix the problems, Sandoval opted to be in Washington, D.C., to accept a heretofore unheard-of award by the heretofore unheard-of Governing Magazine for, in part, breaking his word and raising taxes last year.In any event, the following excerpt from a Las Vegas Review-Journal story on …