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"It would be embarrassing if I got all the votes.
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- Robin Reedy running for the State Assembly in District 39, against the incumbent, Jim Wheeler. Ms. Reedy was knocking the endorsements Assemblyman Wheeler has gotten and says he refuses to debate the important issues facing Nevada. - Wednesday, April 23, 2014.
"Yes they were heavily armed as were the BLM. At what point are we going to stop governance by gunpoint?
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- Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, who was at the Bundy Ranch during the standoff between armed militia and the BLM. The Assemblywoman refers to the militia as patriotic Americans. She says the Federal government has overstepped, overreached and enough is enough. - Tuesday, April 22, 2014.
"If you were to ask the local law enforcement cadre on the Southwest border what they need, you’d get a slightly different answer than the Washington DC pitch.
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- Capt. Dave “Roy” Rogers (Rtd) President DRR Strategies LLC who says local law enforcement doesn’t want more border agents, what they want is to be equipped with better technology.
- Monday, April 21, 2014.
"If you go to most of the United States border patrol towns, cities, they talk about the number of people that are working for the cartels or working to facilitate illegal activity.
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- Captain Dave “Roy” Rogers (Rtd)President DRR Strategies LLC, who says a relatively large percentage of US citizens, in these areas, are on the take, with various agencies, to facilitate the illegal activity.
- Thursday, April 17, 2014.
"It’s kinda like a spoiled child. You give 'em enough attention and they’ll behave that way. If you send them to their room, eventually, they’ll learn they have to behave appropriately to be at the dinner table.
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- Mary Lau President Retail Association of Nevada discussing the Joe Dini years as Speaker when fairness equity and philosophy ruled the day, not partisan politics. Her comment refers to the extreme partisan nature that has come to bear over the past decade. - Wednesday, April 16, 2014.
"How do we get the Federal Government to cede these lands back to ownership and management of the State of Nevada? As they have done with all the Eastern States over the course of 200 years.
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- Lesley Pittman, Principal Sierra Strategies pointing out that Congressman Amodei has been working in this direction. These efforts were begun prior to the latest Bundy controversy.
- Tuesday, April 15, 2014.
"I’d say the tensions are probably gonna rise a little bit, sure.
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- Greg Ferraro, The Ferraro Group, describing the Lowden Hutchison Republican Lt. Governor Primary.
- Monday, April 14, 2014.
"They are getting paid. It’s a question of how the pay is given.
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- Howard Rosenberg UNR Professor, who says that student athletes should not get conventional pay but they are being compensated through fee waivers and scholarships.
- Thursday, April 10, 2014.
"We have to get kids prepared to be able to take their rightful place in highly skilled jobs of the future.
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- Dr. Dana Ryan, Director WCSD Signature Academies & Career and Technical Education, who says lots of people, are knocking on the Academies doors needing students who are prepared to enter the skilled workforce. - Wednesday, April 9, 2014.
"I guess if you want to look at investment in education 20 years from now to getting back to where we were that’s a great path to take.
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- Nevada State Education Association President Ruben Murillo says that Governor Sandoval’s approach to adding money to the education budget each biennium is too slow in the face of the 800 million dollars that was cut out of school budgets during the Great Recession. President Murillo says the 500 million dollars the governor added last session, while appreciated, was just a drop in the bucket. - Tuesday, April 8, 2014.
"I’m much more concerned with what Congress does with the public dollars that they’ve taken from us than what somebody does with their own money that they’ve made, going the other direction."
- Tray Abney, The Chamber (Reno/Sparks) in support of the recent US Supreme Court decision that allows individuals to support as many candidates as they like, financially, as the court removed the financial cap. - Monday, April 7, 2014.
"So if they’ve shown that they’ve already had access to that type of information or that they haven’t been convicted of a crime of dishonesty or a breach in trust, then they’ve met the standards of the Nevada law."
- Alexia Emmermann, Insurance Counsel for the NV Dept. of Insurance explaining that despite the fact that at least ten Obamacare Navigators for the state had felony records, there had not been any problems since the program began. - Thursday, April 3, 2014.
"They could have had a second companion initiative that would have obligated the spending of that money to education.
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- Attorney Jim Wadhams, who says that there is a flaw in the Education Initiative that would allow Legislators a way to remove any additional tax monies from the DSA and allow that money to be spent elsewhere, apart from education. - Wednesday, April 2, 2014.
"He demonstrated how little he does know about foreign policy.
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- Marlene Lockard, The Lockard Group going after Governor Chris Christie’s gaff at the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Las Vegas. The Governor used the term Occupied Territories. A no no to the RYC. - Tuesday, April 1, 2014.
"We felt that if we included language that would prevent the Legislature from taking money out of the education budget, once all the revenues generated by the Margins Tax is deposited into the DSA, we would run afoul of the single subject requirement. "
- Lynn Warne, former President of the Nevada State Education Association on how a loophole for Legislators exists within the Education Initiative.
- Monday, March 31, 2014.
"It’s a really interesting circus right now.
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- Michael Hillerby, Kaempfer Crowell, who says that his law firm has medical marijuana clients in both Southern and Northern Nevada.
- Thursday, March 27, 2014.
