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"This is an orchestrated campaign by her handlers, her masters, the good old boys in this community. Who don’t like it that I’ve challenged the establishment. She’s just a mouthpiece for the status quo."
- Washoe County Commissioner Kitty Jung running for Reno City Council against Neoma Jardon. Ms Jardon says that the issue at hand includes the Commissioner taking a gun into a courthouse, threatening the County’s budget, interfering with police investigations and now the FCC violations regarding robocalls attacking Ms Jardon. - Wednesday, October 24, 2012.
"I think Obama will carry the state somewhere 1-3 points, something like that, and I think that’s about the margin of victory for Heller.
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- Pete Ernaut, Principal, R & R Partners, predicting victories for President Obama and Senator Dean Heller with the same kind of split ticket voting that occurred in 2010 with Senator Reid and Governor Sandoval’s victories. - Tuesday, October 23, 2012.
"We know that the Department of Defense cannot withstand an additional $500 billion of cuts over the ten years. Even Secretary of Defense Panetta has said that cuts of that magnitude would do serious harm to our men and women in uniform, their families and our militaries ability to protect our nation."
- Congressman Joe Heck, CD 3, who says that sequestration would also cut 50% of our social services.
- Monday, October 22, 2012.
"As we improve our downtown area and as the baby boomers age I see a migration to downtown areas for people of my generation."
- David Ward Candidate for Reno City Council, who thinks that more hotel casinos are going to be converted to condominiums, in the downtown area, and that the City Council needs to improve the walkability of the area through infrastructure. - Thursday, October 18, 2012.
"It’s the high end players, still, that are coming in."
- Howard Stutz, Gaming Correspondent, Las Vegas Review Journal, who says that baccarat is making enough money for casinos on the Las Vegas Strip to offset the mass market slot customer who is spending less gambling. - Wednesday, October 17, 2012.
"When the debate came on I was really looking forward to getting a sense of who they were and how they project themselves and it was a rerun of all of their ads. They just started attacking each other with the same name calling and it was not effective at all."
- Helen Foley, Partner Faiss Foley Warren who gained little knowledge from the 1st Heller/Berkley debate. - Tuesday, October 16, 2012.
"I think that Justice Scalia’s court, and I say Scalia’s court because I’m sure that he leads these kind of decisions, has done more to continue the decay of the political process than any other decision made in this nation's history."
- Billy Vassiliades, CEO R & R Partners, who finds the Citizens United Supreme Court decision abhorrent. - Monday, October 15, 2012.
"This race was never a slam dunk.
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- Steven Horsford running for CD4, who says that Danny Tarkanian’s name recognition is helping him despite the fact that he has lost on his four previous outings. - Thursday, October 11, 2012.
"The grass roots are consistent. It’s these Republicans running for office that are causing the problem."
- Chuck Muth, President Citizen Outreach, who says that since Governor Sandoval has said he wants to extend the taxes that were supposed to sunset, it has given Republicans running for office the cover not to sign the no new taxes pledge, this time around. - Wednesday, October 10, 2012.
"I think the most important thing, both for people posing questions and the candidates themselves, is to be able to have a back and forth and a follow up to hopefully get into a little more detail than just the sound bites and the one liner types of comments. "
- Sean Whaley, Capital Correspondent, Nevada News Bureau, on what he sees as a better form of debate for both reporters and the general public. - Tuesday, October 9, 2012.
"Romney’s position is also President Obama’s position, that there are parts of the law that are important and can work right now. There are parts that we need to look at and there are parts of it that probably should go away."
- Larry Matheis, Exec Director Nevada State Medical Association, referring to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and he says jokingly, that the Democrats didn’t really believe it would pass otherwise they would have come up with a better acronym. - Monday, October 8, 2012.
"I think my opponent has a lot of brass even bringing it up."
- Judge Scott Freeman, running for retention in Washoe District Court Dept 9. His opponent Cal Dunlap wondered how someone who planned to have a career path as a judge would represent a man who had murdered his wife and then shot a family court judge. - Thursday, October 4, 2012.
"Even a one percentage point increase in interest rates, here in the United States, would have disastrous effects on the deficit. It would add, probably, another 100 billion dollars to the deficit, overnight."
- UNR Professor of Economics Thomas Cargill, remarking how an event in Europe, like an austerity riot in Greece, could cause a spike in US interest rates, if the market became unstable. - Wednesday, October 3, 2012.
"Quite frankly that crystallizes what’s going to be the major debate in this legislative session."
- Jim Wadhams, Attorney At Law, remarking on the recent debate between Sheila Leslie and State Senator Greg Brower where she pointed out that the Washoe County School District is going to be in the red to the tune of 50 million dollars at the start of the next session and Senator Brower wants to take a wait and see attitude regarding revenue. - Tuesday, October 2, 2012.
"He got a chance to see where all his loyalty card members were coming from and they weren’t coming from Beverley Hills, they weren’t coming from Hollywood area. They were coming from the Inland Empire. So he knew, in advance, that he had a customer base that was located in the Inland Empire."
- Rick Velotta, Las Vegas Sun Business Writer, who interviewed Anthony Marnell ll, the former owner of the Rio, about the ExpressWest High Speed Rail Project and its destination, Victorville, a short drive from the Inland Empire. - Monday, October 1, 2012.
"Nevada has a long time reputation of that."
- Dina Titus, Democratic Candidate for CD 1, agreeing with Senator Heller(on a previous program) that despite the partisan makeup of the Nevada delegation, after the election, they are likely to come together to try and get the on line poker bill approved. As they have done in the past regarding Gaming, Mining or Nuclear waste. - Thursday, September 27, 2012.
