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"It went from a district that was 17% Democrat to now roughly even in registration and having a very attractive candidate like Wes Duncan, Marcus is in the race of his life.
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- Pat Hickey, Republican Assembly Minority Leader, who feels that Republicans are poised to pick up some seats in the Assembly due to redistricting and good candidates. He feels Marcus Conklin is especially vulnerable. - Wednesday, October 31, 2012.
"Think about the people behind these ads and what it says about the candidate."
- Martha Gould, Political Activist, who says that many campaign commercials are full of misinformation and outright lies. - Tuesday, October 30, 2012.
"I don’t think anyone’s particularly happy with this but the most significant impacts are on rural Nevada and the rural community colleges."
- University Chancellor Dan Klaich, who says the new funding formulas are more equitable but will cause pain. - Monday, October 29, 2012.
"I think most people would agree with him. Whether you go out and say that in the role that he has, I don’t know what good it does.
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- Robert Uithoven, Kolesar and Leatham Govt Affairs, who says that most folks agree with Pete Ernaut’s analysis that says the President wins Nevada and Dean Heller wins by the same margin. - Thursday, October 25, 2012.
"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.
