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"This is my opinion... that Jim Gibbons beat the heck out of Brian Sandoval, and I beat Jim Gibbons. "
- Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Montandon, reviewing last week's primary debate, held in Reno and sponsored by Anger is Brewing. - Wednesday, April 28, 2010.
"Whoever wins that primary, I think, is going to be locked into some positions that are going to be tough to defend in a general election."
- Attorney Joe Guild, discussing the far-right stance of all three of the Republican gubernatorial candidates in their recent debate. - Monday, April 26, 2010.
"That’s a pretty reasonable price, and a patient could find that they can call almost any doctor's office and offer that type of payment for an office visit, and it’s very likely they're going to get an appointment. "
- Dr. Kevin Petersen of No Insurance Surgery, Las Vegas, supporting candidate Sue Lowden’s assertion that you can negotiate with your doctor for lower rates by offering 20% above the Medicare reimbursement, and paying by cash or credit card. - Thursday, April 22, 2010.
"I don’t think... the idea of creating another Washington bureaucracy to somehow manage that is the right path. "
- John Chachas, Republican U.S. Senate candidate, on the Senate’s attempts to regulate Wall Street, suggesting that transparency and larger capital reserve requirements are the correct formula. - Wednesday, April 21, 2010.
"He has been voted twice by his peers as the worst lawmaker in Carson City -- not the most conservative -- the worst. "
- Republican Ben Kieckhefer, candidate for the state senate seat now occupied by Randolph Townsend, attacking opponent Ty Cobb in a four-way primary debate. - Tuesday, April 20, 2010.
"They are the ones who said they were going to "vaporize" me. They set the tone to their campaign very early on, that this was going to be a negative campaign, and that it was going to be attack mode. And when you have 25 million dollars, that’s what you can do. "
- Sue Lowden, responding to one of many negative press releases about her from the Harry Reid campaign. (Said before any discussion came up about bartering for health care, which stirred a whirlwind of press and intensified the potshots from camp Reid.) - Monday, April 19, 2010.
"For me and other conservatives, it bothers me because that kind of activity -- that kind of behavior -- will be used by the other side, by the democrats, to say, 'hey conservatives are wackos. They do things that not acceptable.' "
- Steve Robinson of R&R Partners, discussing Assemblyman Ty Cobb’s destruction of a campaign sign belonging to Sheila Leslie. Both are running for State Senate but not in the same race. - Thursday, April 15, 2010.
"It’s not clear that we have on the horizon a solution that’s going to completely obviate the need for a repository. "
- Michael Voegele of the Nye Nuclear Waste Repository Project, suggesting that even if a nuclear waste reprocessing method is developed, it will take up to 20 years, and a repository will still be needed for the waste that can’t be reprocessed. - Wednesday, April 14, 2010.
"I think the problem was political, not language based. "
- Pat Mulroy of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, with a theory on the inability of the legislature during the special session to craft a solution to the water rights crisis in Nevada. - Tuesday, April 13, 2010.
"I think we need to cut the federal spending. We should eliminate all pork projects. Leave the pork projects to the states to pay for them if they want. "
- Danny Tarkanian, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, discussing an area where he says disagreement exists between himself and front-running opponent Sue Lowden. - Monday, April 12, 2010.
"You know what, I believe he can. "
- Public Relations Consultant Elizabeth Trosper of Dan Hart & Associates, asked whether Senator Reid can even buy $25 million dollars worth of advertising in Nevada, if he indeed raises that amount of money. - Thursday, April 8, 2010.
"I hesitated, because of John’s problems, as to whether or not -- it was a partial determining factor -- whether or not I got into this race. Will it have impact up and down the ticket for Republicans this fall? I think there’s a potential of that happening."
- Congressman Dean Heller, while not calling for Senator Ensign to resign, points out that John Ensign's persistence in keeping his Senate seat had ramifications, including Heller’s decision to not challenge Harry Reid this year. - Wednesday, April 7, 2010.
"The Governor believes that this act is unconstitutional, and I believe he’s right. When you can force a private citizen to buy a private product, which is the health care product you have to buy, and penalize him if he doesn’t, there’s nothing in the commerce clause that allows that. "
- Lynn Hettrick, Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Gibbons, explains why the governor is using outside counsel to join Florida’s lawsuit against ObamaCare after the Attorney General of Nevada refused to add Nevada as a party to the suit. - Tuesday, April 6, 2010.
"I think the very first thing we all should be talking about is jobs, and although immigration reform is certainly important maybe there is some valid argument in terms of the timing, but everything we should be talking about is jobs. "
- Clara Andriola, President of Associated Builders and Contractors of Nevada, emphatic that immigration isn’t the first thing the Congress should address. - Monday, April 5, 2010.
"In 2007... I had about a billion dollars in cash in the General Fund. Right now we have about $436 million. That’s a huge drop. On the other hand, it’s up. A couple of months ago I only had $330 million, so you can see that it’s up a little bit. That’s nice! "
- Kate Marshall, State Treasurer of Nevada, looking for signs of an uptick in Nevada’s economy. - Thursday, April 1, 2010.
"Clearly, he’s taken a stand that going to antagonize members of his own Democratic party, and certainly the environmental community, but it’s a conservative step. It’s one that absolutely needs to be done. We need to be drilling for oil within our own domestic resources. "
- Ty Cobb, former advisor to President Reagan, on the Obama administration's plans to open up limited domestic drilling for off-shore oil. - Wednesday, March 31, 2010.
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