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"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.
"I believe that this governor is pathetically, pathetically incompetent.
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- Jim Rogers, owner, Chairman, and CEO of Sunbelt Communications, responding to the governor's State of the State speech.
- Tuesday, February 9, 2010.
"I was trying to speak as bluntly as I could, to express the frustrations of the people who live in my district.
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- Congressman Dina Titus explaining why she dropped the f-bomb on Speaker Pelosi at what she thought was a private meeting.
- Monday, February 8, 2010.
"I have never said we’re winning this drug war, on any of the drugs. We aren’t. That’s plain and simple. The only way were going to win it -- and unfortunately the Federal Government backed off this, thank god the local agencies didn’t -- is through education.
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- Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick, discussing the war on drugs, and in particular his opposition to the legalization of marijuana through a ballot initiative planned for 2012. - Thursday, February 4, 2010.
"The Bricklayers Union in Las Vegas, which represents bricklayers, tile setters, and marble workers, is 80 percent unemployed. Unemployment in the building trades in Reno is at a high of 75 percent. We didn’t have those kinds of numbers during the Great Depression. It wasn’t that bad.
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- Danny Thompson Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, drilling down to the sector numbers versus the generally accepted 13% unemployment level statewide in Nevada. - Wednesday, February 3, 2010.
