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"So far, every special session that we’ve had over the last few years is because they didn’t do their job in the first 120 days, and we’re having to go back and correct situations.
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- Mary Lau, President and CEO of the Retail Association of Nevada, objecting to the idea of annual sessions of the Nevada Legislature. - Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
"I hear that said a lot, and I’m sure it’s true, but I do believe the tax structure and the business friendly climate has more to do with it than the educational side of it, and I know that’s something that’s not politically correct to say anymore.
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- Steve Robinson of R&R Partners, disagreeing that education standards are the most important consideration for companies looking to relocate in the Silver State.
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
"The quest to find the best version possible is still on. It may require a special session. It may be resolved by the Court before that.
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- Barbara Buckley, Assembly Speaker, referring to language in a water bill needed to deal with issues raised in a recent Supreme Court decision affecting over 14 thousand different water rights holders in the state.
- Thursday, March 4, 2010.
"I was invited to go and testify in front of the entire Senate. I would prefer to be lectured in the privacy of Senator Townsend’s office instead of on TV or on the Senate floor.
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- Tray Abney, Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce. Townsend took exception (quote below) when Abney waved Sage Commission Report at him on the Senate floor. The report has recommended budget revisions. None of the recommendations were adopted. - Wednesday, March 3, 2010.
"When a particular individual started waving a book in my face, and dictating to me about how he was going to come to the table with that book, that’s when I absolutely said wait a minute, we don’t conduct business like that on the floor of the Senate like this. This isn’t personal.
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- State Senator Randolph Townsend describing an ugly exchange during the special session. Tray Abney was the individual referred to. His response, on the same program, is above.
- Wednesday, March 3, 2010.
"I do commend the Governor. He was there, and he helped us in the final negotiations. It was important that he came forward and said yes, these user fees are OK, mining is OK. It was very important that we had that agreement, or else we would have found ourselves in just chaos.
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- Heidi Gansert, Assembly Minority Leader, on the very active role Governor Gibbons played in the special session.
- Monday, March 1, 2010.
"The budget shortfall, just on the existing budget, will be in excess of three billion dollars. Whereas today we’re looking only at trying to find funding for 890 million dollars.
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- Bill Raggio, Minority Leader of the Nevada Senate, on the budget challenge the legislature will face in the next regular session.
- Thursday, February 25, 2010.
"The cuts that are being recommended are just too dire. They impact the quality of life of all of us, including their employees, and they are a big part of who we are as Nevadans
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- Steven Horsford Majority Leader of the Nevada Senate, expressing the need for Mining and Gaming to step up to the plate in a meaningful way to help close the budget shortfall. - Wednesday, February 24, 2010.
"We just happen to disagree on the terminology here, but I am not increasing taxes.
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- Governor Jim Gibbons, disagreeing with conservatives, including his own campaign co-chair, that taking away mining tax deductions is a tax increase.
- Tuesday, February 23, 2010.
"I don’t think it ought to be an auction, or that sort of thing. Voters are attracted to people who have resources to advertise and reach out to them, and that’s a reality.
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- State Senator Mark Amodei, on his inability to raise funds, both in and out of state, for his aborted U.S. Senate campaign. - Monday, February 22, 2010.
"This is a tax increase.
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- Tray Abney of the Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce, describing the governor's proposal to take away deductions from the mining industry in Nevada.
- Thursday, February 18, 2010.
"I can say without fear of contradiction after the scandal became public that my phone was ringing off the hook and something I had not considered until then became a possibility. We’ll wait and see what happens.
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- Rep Shelley Berkley, (D)- First Congressional District of Nevada, on whether she plans to run against U.S. Senator John Ensign in 2012. - Wednesday, February 17, 2010.
"That would be a little presumptuous to do that.
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- Brian Sandoval, Republican candidate for Governor, asked if he would prepare his own state budget ahead of the election because of the short window between election day and the State of the State address. - Tuesday, February 16, 2010.
"Everyone needs to step back and take a thoughtful, methodical approach to how this is going to happen. And if we don’t, shame on everyone.
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- Mendy Elliott, consultant, fearing that the upcoming special session will devolve into a repeat of the very contentious 2003 legislative session. - Monday, February 15, 2010.
"That night at midnight, I was just bombarded with people shoving pieces of paper into my pocket with what kind of bills and agenda items they wanted on there.
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- Josh Hicks, attorney at Brownstein Hyatt, recalling the night before the special session at the end of the regular 2007 session, when he was serving as Governor Gibbons chief of staff. - Thursday, February 11, 2010.
"We’re a society that has gotten away from one of the fundamental principles that all of our grandparents taught us, which is to save. Nobody is saving any money. We spend it as fast as we make it, and everybody wants everything now.
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- Yvonne Murphy of the Gilman Murphy Group, asserting that if we want government to act more fiscally responsible, we as Nevadans must do the same. - Wednesday, February 10, 2010.
