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"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.
"We have, effectively, a junior senator who doesn’t have much to say anymore because of that incident. We would then have a freshman senator in a minority party. And we would for the first time, probably, go from first to last in terms of getting anything done for this state.
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- Sig Rogich, President of Rogich Communications, explaining why he thinks Nevada needs to retain Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in this year’s election. - Tuesday, March 16, 2010.
"When I was in high school, my counselor told me I should go to beauty college. I had 3.8 GPA and honors classes and she told me I wasn’t college material.
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- Verita Black Prothro, discussing the role of high school counselors, and warning that they make mistakes. Ms. Prothro has held high-profile positions at the National Judicial College, and in the offices of Senator John Ensign and Congressman Dean Heller. - Monday, March 15, 2010.
"We’ll have 14 thousand jobs by the time we’re through, as a result of this. It will bring in over 4 billion dollars worth of private money, and the taxes that will be generated will be awesome.
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- Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, responding to criticism of costly plans for a new city hall complex. - Friday, March 12, 2010.
"I think it’s sad for the whole state, and I don’t think Nevadans deserve it.
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- Consultant Mendy Elliott, discussing a New York Times piece on U.S. Senator John Ensign’s latest woes. The Times reported that Ensign's emails on behalf of his former chief of staff are now residing with the Senate Ethics Committee and the FBI. - Thursday, March 11, 2010.
