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"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.
"They are Ron Paul followers. They’re loyal but at the same time they haven’t really shown much interest in unifying the party and I hope that changes here in Tampa."
- Robert Uithoven, Kolesar and Leatham, speaking prior to the Nevada delegates who voted in the majority for Dr. Paul and not Mitt Romney. - Tuesday, August 28, 2012.
"It’s become very clear that Ron Paul’s backers, while being a very small minority, are the most devoted, motivated group of followers, of either party."
- Glenn Cook, Editorial Writer, Las Vegas Review Journal, who feels that Ron Paul’s followers will be the story of the 2012 Republican Convention. - Monday, August 27, 2012.
"Pass a budget out of the Senate. Let’s sit down and negotiate it. You’ve got to negotiate with something."
- Scott Bensing, President, SB Strategic Consulting who points out that there hasn’t been a federal budget passed in three years. - Thursday, August 23, 2012.
"If you ask them about shuttling versus racing, they’d rather race."
- Mike Houghton, President and CEO Reno Air Racing Association, who has two Shuttle Astronauts racing in the Reno Air Races this year. - Wednesday, August 22, 2012.
"That would be the appropriate time to determine whether or not the ENN project would be favorably compared to others who would want to build projects as well. "
- Michael Yakira, President and CEO, NV Energy who says that NV Energy will ask the PUC to reopen the bidding process for renewable energy in 2014 and that would be the time that the massive ENN project in Southern Nevada could compete, on a number of levels, to have their renewable energy purchased by NV Energy. Senator Reid is pushing hard for that to happen. - Tuesday, August 21, 2012.
"We’ve validated nearly 5 Billion Dollars below the surface and very near surface, on the Comstock. Representing probably in total, less than 2% of our geology or our geography. So we feel like we are just scratching the surface."
- Corrado De Gasperis, President and CEO, Comstock Mining, as they are getting ready to pour their first gold later this summer, in Storey County. - Monday, August 20, 2012.
"No, no no no"
- Reno Mayor Bob Cashell, denying that the 14 million dollar grant the City of Reno was awarded, for its fire department, was payback from Senator Reid, for Cashell’s support of "Republicans for Reid” two years ago. - Thursday, August 16, 2012.
"I think that if you don’t have basic things that you believe in and can behave that way, it isn’t a very good thing for a President. "
- Former Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich, who was not pleased with the extra marital concerns that were raised in the Presidential runs, by both Newt Gingrich and John McCain. - Wednesday, August 15, 2012.
