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"We saw an opportunity to show the establishment that with mass collaboration, we can succeed. So it was much less about Scott Brown, far more about our ability to unify and win an unthinkable election.
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- Eric Odom, Executive Director, American Liberty Alliance, discussing the Tea Party movement's success in the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts.
- Tuesday, January 26, 2010.
"It involved people who never really were involved in politics. Are you going to keep them involved? Are they going to feel like they’re drowned out? That’s probably the underlying concern. That person who can only give $15 dollars a month to their favorite candidate -- are they going to feel like it matters anymore when someone’s putting in $15 million?
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- Robert Uithoven, Political Consultant, J3 Strategies, discussing the Supreme Court ruling that gives corporations and unions the ability to put in unlimited amounts of money into advertising during political campaigns.
- Monday, January 25, 2010.
"They haven’t been that fruitful, though. So far, it’s mostly been the Governor saying I’m going to announce this plan in my press conference in 30 minutes, and that’s not really the kind of give-and-take that people would like.
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- Barbara Buckley, Speaker of the Assembly, after saying she would attend the Governor’s next open house for legislators. - Thursday, January 21, 2010.
"It’s going to be difficult for the Senate Majority Leader to keep his caucus together. These guys are going to be scared to death after what happened in Massachusetts.
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- Lesley Pittman, Principal of Sierra Strategies, discussing health care and the loss of Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat to the Republicans. - Wednesday, January 20, 2010.
"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.
