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"Brian should have been out there saying more things.
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- Billy Vassiliadis, CEO R & R Partners, discussing Judge Sandoval’s apparent lack of knowledge on the issues when he first declared his candidacy for Governor.
- Tuesday, January 19, 2010.
"It’s not about money, it’s about how we deliver education to our students.
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- Paul Enos, CEO of the Nevada Motor Transport Association, discussing potential across-the-board budget cuts, including cuts to education suggested by Brian Sandoval in his campaign for Governor. - Monday, January 18, 2010.
"The big number that everyone hears is currently valued at $3.6 billion, and that is the cost of the current retirees along with the current employees, what they have earned for their future health benefits.
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- Leslie Johnstone, Executive Officer, Nevada Public Employees' Benefits Program, discussing the unfunded liability the state faces for its retirees.
- Thursday, January 14, 2010.
"Workhorse not a show horse."
- State Senator Mark Amodei, running in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, asked to describe his "brand".
- Wednesday, January 13, 2010.
"In this case the fundraiser wasn’t a conflict per se, it was a perceived conflict.
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- Catherine Cortez Masto, Attorney General of Nevada, defending her husband’s involvement in a fundraiser for a challenger to Lt Governor Brian Krolicki (ultimately cancelled), even as she pursued felony charges against Krolicki. (Ultimately dropped.) - Tuesday, January 12, 2010.
"They (some Nevadans) are actually tired of the media focusing on some of the things that I did and the mistakes that I made. They’d like the media to focus on the issues that are really important to Nevadans, and that’s what I’m trying to focus on, and continue to focus on.
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- Nevada U.S. Senator John Ensign, in response to media coverage that lumps him in with the likes of Senator Larry Craig and Governor Mark Sanford.
- Monday, January 11, 2010.
"Where is that formula? What State can we look at, that is exempt from recession and depression?
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- Steve Robinson, R&R Partners, discussing potential solutions to Nevada’s financial crisis. - Thursday, January 7, 2010.
"I think it's had an impact, not only on him personally, but I think it’s had an impact on our delegation as a whole, and our ability to work together.
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- Congressman Dean Heller, discussing Senator John Ensign’s travails. - Wednesday, January 6, 2010.
"If they don’t go forward with it, it’s going to look bad for them. People are going to consider the Tea Party movement a toothless tiger. And they are not going to be able to strike fear into the hearts of a lot of elected officials the way they have up to this point simply by being loud and protesting, occasionally, at these rallies that they’ve done.
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- Chuck Muth, Publisher of Nevada News and Views, on the failure, so far, by the Tea Party Movement, to make good on its recall threat against State Senator Bill Raggio.
- Tuesday, January 5, 2010.
"He does have an advantage. That he is actually Governor now and he has pretty good access to the press whenever he wants it. He has a paid state staff that puts out press releases lambasting Senator Reid on the health care bill. They are constantly trying to get him in front of the news. So as far as getting him exposure, they’re pretty good at that.
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- Anjeanette Damon, Reno-Gazette Journal political reporter, discussing the balance between the governor's lack of campaign funds and the power of incumbency in the gubernatorial primary battle unfolding this year. - Monday, January 4, 2010.
"In each one of those (companies), there is, we believe, the kernel or the core of a technology that generates jobs, a lot of income, and scales very quickly."
- Norman Smith, Executive Director of business incubator C4CUBE, asked about the characteristics that make a start-up business a good bet for development assistance.
- Thursday, December 31, 2009.
"There’s huge opportunities. My prediction is they will take place. They will take time to do, and do right… and we’ll see what happens. I think we’ll get there in this whole renewables thing. But it’s not going to happen tomorrow."
- Ray Bacon, Executive Director of the Nevada Manufacturers Association, summarizing the prospects for renewable energy development in Nevada. - Wednesday, December 30, 2009.
"Right now in Vegas, six thousand more rooms just came on line with the opening of City Center… Two more resorts are soon to open up. Planet Hollywood has just added about twelve hundred more rooms to the capacity of Vegas…… and we just probably won’t see any more building of this type, of the high end, high luxury for many, many more years."
- Marybel Batjer, VP of Public Policy and Communications for Harrah's Entertainment, asked about the continual upscaling of Las Vegas hotel-casino properties over the past two decades, and the upward pressure on revenue needed to cover costs. - Monday, December 28, 2009.
"If it’s for me, I don’t think we spend enough.
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- Former Assembly Speaker Bill Bilyeu, commenting on the amount of money spent on end of life medical care. - Wednesday, December 23, 2009.
"I’m not quite sure who goes to jail, when it doesn’t happen. I hope it’s not the Chief of Staff.
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- Robin Reedy, Chief of Staff to Governor Gibbons, on the Constitutional requirement to balance the State’s budget. - Tuesday, December 22, 2009.
"Most of this bill does not go into effect until after 2014, which is after the Obama re-election campaign. So Senator Reid, next year as he’s running for a tough re-election, will be able to tout the benefits of this bill and there will be no real effects of it until long after the election is gone.
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- Tray Abney, Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce, discussing the health care reform currently working its way through congress. - Monday, December 21, 2009.
