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"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.
"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.
