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"I think the problem was political, not language based.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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.
"It’s a step they needed to take a long time ago. Not just Bank of America, but all the banks
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- Avi Hayon, Managing Partner, Commercial Mitigation Group, responding to the news that Bank of America will cut by one-third the principal owed on mortgages they acquired from Countrywide. - Tuesday, March 30, 2010.
"For every one student that we would (add) grades 1 through 12, that would save us six million dollars but than means the loss of 110 teaching positions.
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- Dr. Heath Morrison, Superintendent of the Washoe County School District, on solving a $33 million dollar budget shortfall through class size increases. - Monday, March 29, 2010.
"This isn’t about the Federal Government trying to find out intimate details of your household so they can monitor our citizenry. This about the Federal Government trying to figure out how to apportion Federal dollars.
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- Secretary of State Ross Miller, giving the "bottom line" reason Nevadans should fill out their census forms, despite questions on the form that exceed the constitutionally prescribed purpose of the census. - Thursday, March 25, 2010.
"We can’t keep doing this. Local government will cave in itself if we don’t do something about personnel costs. Two-thirds of our budget goes to personnel, and we need to try to work together, if we can, to reduce those costs.
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- Rory Reid, Democratic Candidate for Governor, recalling what he said to the head of the Firefighters Union in Clark County regarding firefighter pay and benefits. - Wednesday, March 24, 2010.
"Armageddon has not ensued; they are not in war in the valley of Megiddo in Northern Israel. No one’s been raptured up, I don’t feel any earthquake, and life seems to be going on pretty well.
(editor's note: Megiddo an important archeological site of the Israelite kingdom, and location of many battle scenes, according to Jacqueline Schaalje, Jewish Magazine.)
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- Andrew Barbano, publisher of NevadaLabor.com,on the passing and signing of the Obama health care legislation. - Tuesday, March 23, 2010.
"We’ve got the local and State issues. You’ve got budget shortfalls that are huge. You’ve got some districts that have some reserve funds that will be able to cover some of that. You’ve got some districts in the State that are just broke, and they’re not going to be able to cover that, and they’re really going to have to make some tough decisions with their employees.
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- Lynn Warne, President of the Nevada State Education Association, explaining why some of the state's teachers are very worried. - Monday, March 22, 2010.
"I am going to fight for congressionally-directed spendings. I am proud of that that I’ve done in the past and I’m going to continue doing as much as I can.
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- U.S. Senator Harry Reid, asserting the correct description of earmarks he has gotten for the benefit of Nevada.
- Thursday, March 18, 2010.
"I spent my youth here in Nevada until I was 18. My grandfather emigrated here from Greece in 1919. We had a cattle ranch from 1939 to 1982. My father was a district attorney in White Pine County. My cousin was the mayor in Ely. My mother raised the money to build the library in Ely. We had the first General Motors dealership in Northern Nevada. My brothers and I continue today to own gold and silver interests in White Pine County. We have water interests in Nye County.
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- John Chachas, Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate, refuting the notion that he is a carpetbagger. - Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
