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"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.
"It’s still going to be difficult to put that budget together with Medicaid growth, growth in K12 and Higher ED. They’re working under a budget right now that has furloughs."
- Andrew Clinger, Reno City Manager and former State Budget Director, who says despite Governor Sandoval’s intention of keeping the taxes that should have been sunsetted, the State still faces huge financial issues going forward. - Tuesday, August 14, 2012.
"If you gave Brian Sandoval a billion and a half dollar bank to say go create some jobs in Nevada, I’m wondering if he couldn’t have created more than 137 jobs."
- Congressman Mark Amodei, who says that the billion and a half dollar loan guarantees, provided by the Federal Government, to Nevada green energy projects, has been at a cost of 22 million dollars per long term job. - Monday, August 13, 2012.
"Over a million cars a month are going by Boomtown casino."
- Dean Dilullo, CEO, M1 Gaming and new owner of Boomtown Reno, who says that his property is perfectly suited for both the drive in and locals markets in Northern Nevada. - Thursday, July 26, 2012.
"I think the strategy on the Obama campaign is, if I can’t make people love me, I’ll make them hate the other guy. "
- Jay Parmer, Founder, American Strategies, Inc. who says that despite the 50 million dollars that has been spent by the Obama campaign since it became a two person race, the average of the polls has shown the race getting closer, not further apart. - Wednesday, July 25, 2012.
"Right now they are all neutral."
- Lynne Warne, President, Nevada State Education Association, who says that mining and gaming, with exception of Las Vegas Sands, are waiting to see the outcome of the challenge to the Margin Tax Initiative. - Tuesday, July 24, 2012.
"It’s another failure of Green Fascism."
- Radio Host Todd Bailey, 1270 The Buzz, describing the pending closure of the Amonix solar manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas.
- Thursday, July 19, 2012.
"The net effect of this petition would be to allow a dramatic increase in unrestricted State spending."
- Josh Hicks, Attorney, Brownstein Hyatt, who says that the Margin Tax Petition would not prevent the Governor or Legislators from taking current funds that are allocated to education, and moving those funds elsewhere in the budget, if they chose too. - Wednesday, July 18, 2012.
"If someone there said they were a doctor, I would wonder how much they’d actually learned."
- Alison Gaulden, Planned Parenthood, who recently returned from a visit to Kyrgyzstan and observed that students at the colleges there not only have to pay to go to the college, but then have to bribe their professors for grades. They can also pay a higher bribe to get a better grade. - Tuesday, July 17, 2012.
