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"It looks like more and more voters are steering away from the protest candidates, as it were, and making a decision as to whether to land firmly in the Reid or the Angle camp. I couldn’t dare to predict how things are going to turn out a month and a week from now. It’s just been so close for so long you’ve gotta think it’s going to come right down to the wire.
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- Glenn Cook Editorial Writer at the Las Vegas Review Journal, discussing the latest Mason Dixon Poll on Nevada's U.S. senate race. - Tuesday, September 28, 2010.
"I am going with repair, repeal, replace. There are certain things in there that are good things, that might just need to be repaired to make them better. There are certain things that I think that need to be repealed... Things in there where the concept is good, but the provision is flawed, and we need to replace it with something that will make sense.
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- Dr. Joe Heck, Candidate for Congressional District 3, claims to have read the federal health care reform bill in its entirety. Several times. - Monday, September 27, 2010.
"We need to keep cash out of the courtrooms. It doesn’t belong there.
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- Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, advocating merit selection for judges with subsequent retention by voters, instead of elections, which require large sums of campaign money to be solicited. - Thursday, September 23, 2010.
"We need to find a middle ground where we can talk to each other sensibly, and accomplish a few things.
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- Retired U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, on acrimonious politics at the state and national level. (O'Connor's senate confirmation score was 99-0.) - Wednesday, September 22, 2010.
"We didn’t use to do this. We used to teach reading writing and arithmetic. And there’s nothing wrong with that. We ought to go back to that.
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- Former State Treasurer Patty Cafferata, debating sex education in schools.
- Tuesday, September 21, 2010.
"Well, I think we’re in a similar situation, but luckily that is our system of government, where we have checks and balances.
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- Assembly Majority Leader John Oceguera discusses the possibility the next governor could repeat the Gibbons approach to budgeting, spurring the Legislature to add revenue unilaterally.
- Monday, September 20, 2010.
"What surprised me was the writing styles. Terrible. The ideas in them are absolutely revolutionary. They are just compelling, and so now anyone can read it as if it were a current day editorial.
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- Mary Webster, Translator and Editor of a plain-English version of The Federalist Papers, recognized that despite the fact the essays were written in English, they still required translation. - Thursday, September 16, 2010.
"Incumbency is in danger this time.
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- Mary Lau, President of the Retail Association of Nevada sums up a series of election victories by Tea Party candidates in this week's primaries. - Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
"The voter’s probably going to take their laundry to the dry cleaner rather than go to the polling place.
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- Attorney John Sande IV, predicts confusion -- or worse -- complete lack of participation on the part of Republican voters because of a divided message coming from the right. - Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
"There is a slippery slope there when the appointments start. The good old boys always taking care of the good old boys, and we want to rid the state of that. At least I do.
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- Ellie Lopez-Bolan says she'd like to keep electing judges, rather than revising the law so they're appointed. - Monday, September 13, 2010.
"Her thoughts, her policies, her ideas are extreme but they are so extreme that no will pay any attention to her. She’ll be irrelevant, but we can get rid of Harry. That is terrible.
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- Marybel Batjer, Vice President of Public Policy at Harrah’s Entertainment, describes the thoughts of her conservative friends regarding U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle. Ms. Batjer has joined Republicans for Reid. - Thursday, September 9, 2010.
"This is not going to pass in the next sixteen days, 'cause there are too many questions about it.
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- Representative Dina Titus, discussing President Obama's announced plans for a $50 billion investment in the country’s infrastructure, without a way to pay for it. She was most concerned about a potential gas tax. - Wednesday, September 8, 2010.
"It’s a billion dollars every three days in Afghanistan.
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- Ty Cobb, Former Special Assistant to President Reagan, says many conservatives are in favor of some sort of withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq, especially considering the high cost and the current economy. - Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
"The 10 percent figure has no reality, and I’m not going to ask the people of our campuses to engage in the kind of serious, painful budget-cutting process for a number that’s not real.
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- Chancellor Dan Klaich Chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on his refusal to submit an across-the-board budget cut requested by the governor.
- Thursday, September 2, 2010.
"Whichever one goes to that office, their first mission, their first job is going to be looking at that budget, and talking about we can do to fund education, and 'no new taxes' may not be on the table.
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- State Senator Bernice Mathews describing her message to the gubernatorial contenders regarding education. - Wednesday, September 1, 2010.
"Every teacher I know... spends money out of their own pockets to equip their classroom, and that’s dead wrong.
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- Attorney Joe Guild, who doesn’t begrudge school superintendents their high salaries, but suggests it's not right when school budgets don't cover classroom necessities.
- Tuesday, August 31, 2010.
