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- - Monday, June 8, 2009.
"Senator Raggio proved himself to be the true expert at this Legislative process, that he really is.
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- Anjeanette Damon, Reno-Gazette Journal, reflecting on Senator Raggio’s role in the session, even as Minority Leader.
- Thursday, June 4, 2009.
"It was the most toxic one, certainly in my memory, between the Governor and the Legislature. I mean really bad, bad feelings going across that courtyard. Didn’t do anybody any good, not the State of Nevada and I hope we don’t have that kind of relationship again.
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- Steve Robinson, R&R Partners, describing the atmosphere at the 2009 Legislative session.
- Wednesday, June 3, 2009.
"They will not vote on that tax package until the reform package is done. Otherwise they could lose the reform package completely.
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- Mary Lau, President, Retail Association of Nevada, discussing the end game, for the Republicans, in the State Senate. - Tuesday, June 2, 2009.
"I don’t know and I don’t care.(laughs) The reason I’m saying that is it’s been indicated that that’s some kind of a hill for me to die for.
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- State Senate Minority Leader, Bill Raggio, when asked when the Assembly would hear the roads bill for Washoe County and decide whether to override the Governor’s veto. - Monday, June 1, 2009.
"Everything is pretty much finished and it really is a tremendous victory. The Governor’s budget would have destroyed our State.
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- Speaker of the Assembly Barbara Buckley, speaking about the budget the Legislature crafted, after rejecting the Governor’s budget. - Wednesday, May 27, 2009.
"So in essence, it’s kind of an easy way for them to move around the will of the people and I think that departure from the Constitution should be voted on by the public not decided upon by the Legislature.
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- Governor Jim Gibbons on why he vetoed the Domestic Partner legislation.
- Tuesday, May 26, 2009.
"Bill Raggio had another superb session. He was the one who defined the end game. And that’s not minor thing.
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- Larry Matheis, Nevada State Medical Association, discussing winners and losers at the session.
- Monday, May 25, 2009.
"You look at this, 2009, as the antecedent of 2011. I can’t wait.
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- Bill Uffelman, Nevada Bankers Association, discussing the post midnight summoning of Republican Senators and the tensions surrounding the closing week of the session.
- Monday, May 25, 2009.
"I was hoping you could tell me that, you’ve been around a long time. First comes sleep depravation, then comes loud music and then I think water boarding. I’m not sure, I might have the rock music and the water boarding backwards but I’m anxious to see what today holds.
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- Republican State Senator Warren Hardy, who was asked why the State Senate was in session until 4 am and Senator Hardy didn’t leave the building until 4.30 am.
- Thursday, May 21, 2009.
"I walked in there and I was actually willing to violate my tax pledge, you know, the concept of the sales tax or something, in order to help the state out, for meaningful reform but unfortunately I haven’t seen any reform so I’m not willing to go along right now.
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- Republican Assemblyman James Settelmeyer who is looking to get reform of PERS and PEBP, which has been tried since the Guinn administration.
- Wednesday, May 20, 2009.
"I see things changing and I think that we’ll look back whether it’s two years or four years from now and say that was a no brainer. Why did we not support it?
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- State Senator David Parks discussing the future, if his domestic partnership bill is vetoed, without a veto proof margin. - Tuesday, May 19, 2009.
"That’s kinda the problem we have here is, we have this tax plan that’s coming out a day before they’re set to try and pass it so it’s really difficult to go through and see what all the different consequences are going to be, coming up.
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- Anjeanette Damon, Reno Gazette-Journal, on how legal prostitutes may have to start paying taxes as independent contractors, among other areas, under legislation that is being quickly passed.
- Monday, May 18, 2009.
"I don’t believe so.
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- State Senator Randolph Townsend when asked if the revenue needs of the state would exceed 700 to 800 million dollars in addition to current revenues.
- Thursday, May 14, 2009.
"We call it the jobs tax. It is a tax on your payroll. So we can argue whether it’s too high or low but to say there is not a broad based business tax is untrue.
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- Tray Abney, Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce, on whether there is a new, broad based business tax that would be acceptable to his Chamber.
- Thursday, May 14, 2009.
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I think that every member tunes into some little message. So if on one particular Tuesday only one legislator listened or became enamored with the idea, we could do better, then it was a victory.
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- State Senator Bob Coffin on whether the legislators had tuned out Chancellor Jim Roger’s weekly Tuesday missives or not.
- Wednesday, May 13, 2009.
