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"What I would propose is to enact a corporate profits tax."
- Candidate for State Senate, Sheila Leslie, being specific about how she would work to raise revenue to cover the major shortfalls anticipated in the next session of the Legislature. She explains that 47 other states have a similar tax. - Wednesday, September 26, 2012.
"We’re wearing different uniforms and we will be wearing different uniforms for the next six weeks. Let’s get past this election and Senator Reid and I will come back together and we’ll start working together. We’ll start working on these important issues."
- Senator Dean Heller making the point that Senator Reid’s attacks on him for not getting Republican votes for internet poker and the Yerington Lands bill will be resolved in Nevada’s favor after the election. - Tuesday, September 25, 2012.
"The solution is growth. Getting back to an increase in our economic opportunities. "
- Mark Hutchison candidate for State Senate District 6, who is in favor of growth to bring private employees to a higher level of income and benefits rather than seeing public employees getting their incomes and benefits cut. - Monday, September 24, 2012.
"You never answered one damn question, about anything.
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- Jim Rogers, Owner Intermountain West Media, referring to a conversation he had with Democratic Congressional candidate John Oceguera after he had interviewed him for his TV program. - Thursday, September 20, 2012.
"We have to have something that is there when and if we absolutely need it.
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- Pat Mulroy, General Manager, Southern Nevada Water Authority, responding to comments by Danny Tarkanian that SNWA should look for another source of water other than from Eastern Nevada. Ms. Mulroy says that there is no other source. - Wednesday, September 19, 2012.
"By doing this, the Fed is redirecting credit from productive areas of the economy back into the housing sector which in most parts of the country is still over built."
- Gerald O’Driscoll, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, who says that with the recent move by the Fed to spend 40 Billion Dollars a month on buying troubled mortgage assets, it appears the Fed is taking over from Congress by conducting monetary policy rather than fiscal policy. - Tuesday, September 18, 2012.
"The point is the research and development and the manufacturing jobs."
- State Senator Mike Schneider, who says that the investment in green energy is not about the number of jobs created to run the power plants. Congressman Mark Amodei has said on a previous program that cost of the plants versus the number of workers needed was out of whack. - Monday, September 17, 2012.
"I thought it was very odd when he decided not go to the Republican Convention, that he went to the Rurals. He’s pretty much got the Rurals sewed up. I thought he should have spent his time down here in Las Vegas, where he might have gotten a little attention."
- Jane Ann Morrison, Columnist, LV Review Journal, on Dean Heller’s lack of personal visibility in Southern Nevada. - Thursday, September 13, 2012.
"You have the ability of campaigns to respond very very quickly and at the same time also make mistakes very very quickly, that they quickly have to take back. "
- David Damore, Associate Professor of Political Science, UNLV, viewing social media, like Twitter, as more inside baseball for campaigns rather than the old school media that might take a day to post a story. - Wednesday, September 12, 2012.
"Car sales are up in Carson which means that capital is moving."
- Bob Crowell, Mayor of Carson City, who says that his town’s economy is a mixed bag with unemployment still hovering around 12%. - Tuesday, September 11, 2012.
"We have the Veterans here, we have the market. It’s just difficult to get the doctors."
- Robert Uithoven, Kolesar and Leatham, Government Affairs, responding to news stories that the new VA hospital in Southern Nevada is having difficulty staffing the facility. - Monday, September 10, 2012.
"No conversation is off the table when it comes to what we need to do to keep this enterprise going."
- Bob Brown, Publisher, Las Vegas Review Journal, who says that there have even been discussions about potentially making the LVRJ a free paper if that’s what it takes to keep the subscriber base where it needs to be. - Thursday, September 6, 2012.
"You spend whatever you have to do to protect the national safety of our country. That should be first and foremost in our minds. To put a dollar amount on it would be unreasonable."
- Danny Tarkanian, Republican Candidate for CD4, who says that border security at any cost is where he stands. - Wednesday, September 5, 2012.
"The Republicans could go on Fox. The Democrats could go on MSNBC and nobody has to watch either one."
- Larry Matheis, Exec Dir, Nevada State Medical Association, who feels that the political conventions have become such a PR affair that they should be more commercial, like the Olympics and be a moneymaker for the network that carries them. - Tuesday, September 4, 2012.
"This has been a very strange time for the State of Nevada.
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- Heidi Smith, Republican National Committeewoman for Nevada, complaining that the Ron Paul supporters from Nevada were not playing by the rules of the Republican Convention. - Thursday, August 30, 2012.
"I think one thing that we agree on is between now and the election, nothing is going to happen."
- Ty Cobb, former special assistant to President Reagan, discussing the impending fiscal cliff the nation is heading towards if Congress doesn’t act before January 1, 2012. - Wednesday, August 29, 2012.
