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"How do you get the experts in redistricting without having a partisan spillover, and that’s clearly what Judge Russell was trying to avoid.
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- Mark Hutchison, GOP attorney at Tuesday's redistricting hearing, on appointing a committee of special masters consisting of the voter registrars in Washoe, Clark and Carson Counties. - Wednesday, July 13, 2011.
"We will prosecute violent crimes. Especially violent felonies. We will prosecute crimes that involve children. We will prosecute crimes that involve women. Those we will do if I have to do them all myself.
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- Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick, facing a possible 10 percent cut to his already-slashed budget, says lesser crimes would have to be prioritized. - Tuesday, July 12, 2011.
"I think what the unions don’t understand is they will go down the drain with that particular entity or city.
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- Dorie Guy, Chair of the Washoe Dems, ponders public employee unions in North Las Vegas who sought injunctions against layoffs, even as the city's finances are on the brink of seizure under the state’s severe financial emergency procedures. - Monday, July 11, 2011.
"Shut the sucker down.
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- Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain didn’t miss a beat concerning the possibility that a debt ceiling resolution might not come in time to avert a government shutdown.
- Thursday, July 7, 2011.
"I’m required to do them at a certain level of efficiency, and I am required to do them at certain level of legal consequence to myself or to members of my organization for failure to act.
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- Washoe County Sheriff Mike Haley confirms that his department has 377 separate state and federal mandates to perform. - Wednesday, July 6, 2011.
"We knew we would get some feedback, but we had no idea the extent that we did get.
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- Chris Killian, President of the Board of Hot August Nights, describes the furor after the community learned that Reno’s most important event might be lost to Long Beach, California. - Tuesday, July 5, 2011.
"I think some of the comments being made by the other candidates in this race are reckless. They are financially irresponsible.
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- Democratic State Treasurer Kate Marshall, campaigning for Nevada Congressional District 2, and touting her fiscal background as a qualification. - Monday, July 4, 2011.
"My General Manager has walked at least 750 homes, and in those 750 homes there has never been an issue with our windows, other than a balance spring, and that’s a warranty issue.
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- Mary Davis, President of J & L Windows, which has been put out of business by 300 separate lawsuits filed under Nevada’s construction defect law. - Thursday, June 23, 2011.
"I think that Nevada voters need the opportunity to select their candidate. That’s what a Republic deserves.
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- Retired Commander Kirk Lippold, explaining why he remains in the race for Congressional District 2, even after the GOP selected Mark Amodei as its candidate, and second-place Greg Brower withdrew his candidacy to support Amodei.
- Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
"Our mission is to educate the Latino community about the values, platforms and candidates of the Republican party, while educating the Republican party on the values, issues and needs of the Latino Community.
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- Elyse Monroy, founder and President of the conservative organization Nevada Latinos for Prosperity. - Tuesday, June 21, 2011.
"When our researcher has traveled and shown other researchers those methods, they have been successful in their own laboratories.
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- Annette Whittemore, Founder and President of the Whittemore Peterson Institute, which has met skepticism with outreach concerning its XMRV retrovirus discoveries, and expects positive studies on the horizon. - Monday, June 20, 2011.
"We must make sure (the Board of Economic Development) is focused on economic development and not on personalities. That’s an inherent danger in this process.
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- Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki discusses the makeup of the new legislatively-mandated board, stacked with legislators and a slew of appointees who aren’t required to have any background in economic development. - Thursday, June 16, 2011.
"I had been sitting there, thinking of 500 of my best and closest friends that I could take down, and sign up to register as Democrats, to run (for the congressional district 2 seat), Because that’s what it was going to look like.
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- Heidi Smith, National Committeewoman for Washoe County Republicans, shares her thoughts about the district court decision that would allow a free-for-all election to replace Congressman Dean Heller. - Wednesday, June 15, 2011.
"Nobody’s seen any conflict of interest before.
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- Former Assembly Speaker Bill Bilyeu, after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a conflict-of- interest finding on Sparks City Councilman Mike Carrigan’s Lazy 8 vote. Interpretation: Lobbyists help elect politicians, then lobby them once they’re elected. - Tuesday, June 14, 2011.
"You have folks getting ready to vote on the floor on a certain matter, but they stand up and disclose that they have a relationship, or there’s some meaningful interest in whatever might be voted on, but then they go ahead and vote on it anyway.
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- Lesley Pittman of Sierra Strategies says the situation noted above happens all the time in the state legislature.
- Monday, June 13, 2011.
"It will be very comfortable for the citizens of the whole state to know that if they put up money for X project, that is what it will be used for.
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- Jim Rogers, Owner of Intermountain West Communications (which airs Nevada Newsmakers), applauding the Nevada Supreme Court for ruling against a legislative sweep of money from southern Nevada’s Clean Water Coalition for use in the state budget.
- Thursday, June 9, 2011.
