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"Some people excel to the point where they exceed the political parties. Senator Raggio is a statesman above Democrat or Republican, and that may offend some in the Republican Party.
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- John Gwaltney, economist, in defense of the Senate Minority Leader, who is under attack from the far right wing of the party. - Thursday, December 10, 2009.
"I was told by one of the Governor's staff that they felt it was necessary, that they couldn’t rely on fiscal staff to do this because the people wouldn’t accept that. I don’t buy into that.
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- State Senator Bill Raggio, calling the Governor’s move to reconvene the Economic Forum early an unnecessary political move. - Wednesday, December 9, 2009.
"They came in at a time when it was just too early. If that would happen now, it might be a lot different.
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- Ralph Toddre, President and CEO, Sunbelt Communications, discussing the failed merger of AOL/Time Warner, as against the synergy of the pending Comcast/NBC Universal purchase.
- Tuesday, December 8, 2009.
"Shows the power of people upset with Harry Reid around the country, too.
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- Danny Tarkanian, Republican primary candidate for U.S. Senate, who got over 7,000 campaign contributions in a six-week period following his appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s national conservative talk show. (The host asked the audience to contribute.) - Monday, December 7, 2009.
"It’s tragic, because so many lives are lost for next to no benefit.
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- Scott Craigie, Alrus Consulting, commenting on the Obama surge for Afghanistan, noting that the U.S. always has a problem withdrawing from a battle theater. - Thursday, December 3, 2009.
"I think it is a terrific success story. I think they ought to be applauded for it, not only for what they’ve done for the sport, what they’ve done for the State of Nevada.
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- Pat Lundvall, Chair of the Nevada Athletic Commission, commenting on Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta’s ownership of the UFC and the roughly 86 million dollar positive impact that it has on the State.
- Wednesday, December 2, 2009.
"Yes, yes.
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- Lynn Warne, President of the Nevada State Education Association, affirming that evaluations of teachers at the local level, including input from the Central Office as well as the local schools, would suffice to qualify for the current federal grants.
- Tuesday, December 1, 2009.
"I think that Brian Sandoval really could help motivate people to come to the polls on behalf of Republicans.
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- Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert, endorsing Brian Sandoval over Jim Gibbons in the Republican Gubernatorial primary.
- Monday, November 30, 2009.
"One of my patients asked me the other day, 'Gosh Dr. Titus, what’s the next mountain you’re gonna climb?' I said it’s gonna be the easy one, Capitol Hill."
- Dr. Robin Titus, running in the Republican primary to take on U.S. Nevada Senator Harry Reid. She is a mountain climber, and has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. - Wednesday, November 25, 2009.
"Nobody’s perfect, but I’m certainly not gonna help anybody whose running against him. "
- Former Congresswoman Barbara Vucanovich, discussing her support for the reelection of Governor Jim Gibbons, despite Brian Sandoval’s attempt to win her support.
- Tuesday, November 24, 2009.
"It is clearly two states, and the population might all be in Vegas, but you have a lot of power, particularly in state government, concentrated up North. And being in Carson City with the Capital there, and the Legislature there, it is amazing how disconnected it often seems, from the reality in the South.
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- David McGrath Schwartz, Capital Bureau Reporter for the Las Vegas Sun, with political observations after having moved from Las Vegas to Carson City. - Monday, November 23, 2009.
"It like these folks got up in the stupid tree and jumped off the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
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- George Harris, Publisher, Liberty Watch Magazine, deriding the Legislature for expanding taxation instead of cutting spending during the last session. - Thursday, November 19, 2009.
"Since we didn’t know what the threat was at the time, I controlled not only combat search and rescue helicopters but anti-submarine helicopters as well. Since we weren’t sure who the enemy was we were actually putting war shots on the helicopters, torpedoes, in case there was a submarine threat
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- Captain Michael Glaser, Base Commander, NAS Fallon, who had a Command in the Gulf when the events of September 11th occurred.
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009.
"I actually think it’s a very positive thing. The fact that, whether it’s Steve Wynn at Wynn, or Gary Loveman at Harrah’s. People who are articulate spokespeople, who are recognized by the national media as being sound business people. It’s what I call the normalization of the gaming industry.
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- Frank Fahrenkopf, President & CEO American Gaming Assoc, discussing Steve Wynn’s attack on the president and congressional Dems(except Senator Reid), because it shows that Gaming is a legitimate business and interest like everyone else is. - Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
"There’s always this possibility of threat and it’s something that we are very much aware of, and taking action to assure that the chance of that is limited for our system.
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- Michael Yackira, President and CEO NV Energy, responding to a question of how safe from cyber attack is the company’s electrical system.
- Monday, November 16, 2009.
"He’s touching on all the right points and I’ve known Schofield over the years. He was State Senator, former Assemblyman. He’s been in Nevada politics for 30, 40 years, at least. And so he’ll be a credible candidate. We’ll take Schofield’s campaign as seriously as we'll take any campaign coming into this next cycle.
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- Congressman Dean Heller, responding to the announcment of Regent Jack Schofield, the 86-year-old Democrat who doesn’t live in Congressional District 2, that he'll challenge Heller in 2010 - Thursday, November 12, 2009.
