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"We don’t talk about donors.
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- Gregg Phillips, Managing Director, Winning our Future PAC, commented after being asked if Sheldon Adelson contribution of $5 million dollars had made a difference to the Gingrich campaign for President. He claims the PAC has received large donations and some as small as $2.50. - Thursday, January 12, 2012.
"A little help from the Legislature might be useful.
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- Dr. Lane Smith, Plastic Surgeon, discussing fake plastic surgeons who have been injecting people with Fix-a-Flat and mineral oil and sealing the site with crazy glue. Smith explains that this falls into a gray area between the police agencies and the Medical Board with no real defined rules. - Wednesday, January 11, 2012.
"You cannot travel in Israel, among business circles, without hearing Mr. Adelson’s name.
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- Gary Epstein, attorney and co-head of the Israeli office of Greenburg-Traurig, describing Sheldon Adelson, the head of Las Vegas Sands, as both an influential businessman and true lover of Israel. - Tuesday, January 10, 2012.
"My answer is no.
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- Congressman Mark Amodei makes the point that the Presidential debates have no bearing on the work of the Congress. - Monday, January 9, 2012.
"Romney is very skilled, and so is Gingrich. Santorum, I don’t think so."
- Mary Lau, President and CEO, Retail Association of Nevada, discounting Rick Santorum’s campaign in Nevada, in part, due to the fact that as a social conservative he will get pulled into the Personhood debate in Nevada. - Thursday, January 5, 2012.
"The guy is a bully. That’s the bottom line."
- State Senator, Michael Roberson, using as an example that Senate Majority Leader, Horsford, tried to force Republicans to accept committees with 5 Democrats and two Republicans versus the more traditional 4/3 split, in the last Legislative session. - Wednesday, January 4, 2012.
"The threat that we would lose delegates and be punished and then the promise that we’d get to keep our delegates and that the state would be treated nicely and get good hotel rooms at the convention in Tampa. So the end result is by pushing us back after Florida is the chance that Nevada could be completely irrelevant. "
- Glenn Cook, Editorial Page Writer, Las Vegas Review-Journal, disagreeing with Governor List on moving Nevada’s caucus to 5th instead of 3rd that it would not end up being a benefit to the State. - Tuesday, January 3, 2012.
"Really bringing folks together. I think that you’re going to have to reach across the aisle and to work together. I think you’re going to have to be a hard worker."
- Assemblywoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick laying out the job requirements for the next Speaker of the Assembly. - Wednesday, December 21, 2011.
"We cannot possibly get ourselves out of this mess unless we change the dynamic in how we compete with the world."
- Sig Rogich President, Rogich Communications calling for a cut in corporate tax rates, as one way to help fix the economy, as the US currently has the second highest rate in the world. - Tuesday, December 20, 2011.
"Part of getting into it is we’re going to get a piece of the pie. It’s going to come to the State."
- Robert Compan Government Affairs, Farmers Insurance, going past the moral objections of Sheldon Adelson and Anthony Marnell III regarding the legalization of internet poker. - Monday, December 19, 2011.
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- - Thursday, December 15, 2011.
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- - Wednesday, December 14, 2011.
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- - Tuesday, December 13, 2011.
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- - Monday, December 12, 2011.
"Depending on where the layoffs are, those classes could push upper 30’s certainly.
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- Lynn Warne, President of the Nevada State Education Association, describing how many students would be in classrooms if teacher layoffs are the result of the current arbitration negotiations in Clark County.
- Thursday, December 8, 2011.
"We went through two checkpoint Charlies. Went through a couple of body scans with the wand and had to dump out our luggage just to make sure we weren’t carrying any weapons or explosives."
- Steve Ranson Editor Lahontan Valley News recently returned from a trip to Afghanistan where he was forced to stay in a hotel in Kabul, overnight, with military contractors because all the hotels he was supposed to stay in weren’t answering phones or picking people up at the airport. - Wednesday, December 7, 2011.
