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"Last session we raised taxes. Not one person in my district of 50 thousand has complained to me (that) we raised taxes. Yet the governor's going to let those sunset. Inexcusable in my opinion.
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- Democratic Assemblyman Tick Segerblom, who says rich corporations don’t pay any taxes, mining companies could pay more taxes, hotels could pay more taxes, and by the way, we could all pay more taxes, and it’s not going to hurt anything.
- Wednesday, May 4, 2011.
"I’m not really sure what to expect. I think I get sued more than anybody in the state. Certainly it’s within the realm of possibility we could see lawsuits coming from any direction on this.
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- Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller who, just days after deciding in favor of it, has already been sued on his rules for the special election in Nevada's second congressional district. - Tuesday, May 3, 2011.
"If you intend to do Americans or our country harm, we will relentlessly pursue you to the ends of the earth and serve justice.
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- Retired U.S. Naval Commander and congressional candidate Kirk Lippold, responding to the announcement of Osama bin Laden's demise at the hands of American special forces. - Monday, May 2, 2011.
"The State of Nevada benefits when there are two good candidates facing each other.
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- Larry Matheis,Executive Director of the Nevada State Medical Association notes that Dean Heller has been 'appointed, not anointed,' to John Ensign's senate seat, even as some caution Shelley Berkley not to challenge Heller in 2012, for fear she will lose. - Thursday, April 28, 2011.
"If Government creates jobs, they create (them) internally, and create more of a bureaucracy, and you don’t have them generating the same gross product level that you do from private sector. It’s private sector that has to create the jobs.
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- Carole Vilardo, President of the Nevada Taxpayers Association, questions whether the state’s businesses are feeling sufficiently confident to begin hiring, given no clear signal that a stable environment will emerge from the legislative session. - Wednesday, April 27, 2011.
"Not at this time."
- Jeff Fontaine, Executive Director of NACO, is not in a hurry for the state to extend independent taxing authority to the counties. He likened the limited, “functional” home rule that passed last week in the senate to a learner's permit. - Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
"Yes it was. You are right. It just took him a year to realize it.
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- Mary Lau, President and CEO of the Retail Association of Nevada, acknowledging that a year ago she predicted John Ensign was finished as a U.S. senator. - Monday, April 25, 2011.
"We talk every day. That is going on in the lunch room. That is going on after hours. And we’re just trying to understand why they would be willing to destroy our educational system for this mantra of no new taxes.
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- State Senator Sheila Leslie, frustrated that her Republican counterparts so far seem not to bend on their pledge to stand with the Governor. - Wednesday, April 20, 2011.
"It would cost jobs. It would not be a job creation bill, to say the least and that’s the problem. And it would stifle entrepreneurial concepts, to me.
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- State Senator James Settlemeyer, resisting a drive by Democrats to change the way Nevada classifies independent contractors. - Tuesday, April 19, 2011.
"The staff and lobbyists will have the knowledge after this.
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- State Senator Mike Schneider, asked who will become the legislative expert on energy issues when his final term expires, laments term limits in general; his own and Randolph Townsend’s in particular. - Monday, April 18, 2011.
"Those discussions are happening. How far we get on some of those issues is yet to be determined, but we’re having the discussions. In the past we haven’t even had those discussions
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- Speaker of the Assembly John Oceguera contends that Democrats won't shy away from traditional third-rail issues like prevailing wage and education reform. - Thursday, April 14, 2011.
"I don’t think we’re going to see the reforms come far enough to make them change their votes. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so. And I haven’t seen anything that’s wavering our senate Republicans at all.
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- Senate Minority Leader Mike McGinness, who reports that GOP solidarity is intact in both houses, suggesting, contrary to whispers from the far right, that the governor won't be abandoned when push comes to shove. - Wednesday, April 13, 2011.
"The governor recognizes the need, that you can’t balance the budget without getting new revenue. Now, he approaches it by sweeping capital reserves from school districts, doing a securitization of insurance premium tax as well as a few other creative-financing type approaches.
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- Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, calling Sandoval’s budget baby ugly, continues to assert that the governor’s bookkeeping leaves a $1.1 billion hole for the next legislative session.
- Tuesday, April 12, 2011.
"If online poker is legalized, I think the state of Nevada should be positioned to be first. We have historically always been the leader in the United States, as well as the world, with regard to gaming regulation, and we should maintain that position. "
- Governor Brian Sandoval, without irony, on the day Washington D. C. approved online poker, ahead of Nevada. - Monday, April 11, 2011.
"There are violent sex offenders and there’s sex offenders who are kids that have consensual sex with a girl a couple of years younger than them. Or (they are seen) urinating in public. If someone sends them a picture on their cell phone and the girl happens to be under the age of 18 it’s classified as child pornography. It shouldn’t be like that.
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- Former sheriff’s deputy and corrections officer Carl Post, advocating removal of low-level sex offenders from the sex offender registry system, allowing them to resume normal life. - Thursday, April 7, 2011.
"I learned a very important lesson, and that is that I’m not giving anything until you come to me now and show me what you’re going to give.
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- Danny Thompson, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Nevada AFL-CIO, suggests his union has given until it hurts, and this session, the ball is in the legislature’s court. - Wednesday, April 6, 2011.
