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"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
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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.
"I think it’s about a 50/50 shot of getting out on time
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- John Oceguera, the Assembly Majority Leader, on whether the Legislature can adjourn within the mandated 120 days or be forced into a special session.
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009.
"Australians are wonderful. How’s that for an answer?
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- State Senator Maggie Carlton, when asked, about her former life as a coffee shop waitress at Treasure Island, who are better tippers, Republicans or Democrats.
- Thursday, May 7, 2009.
"We can’t print the money, we pretty much have to say well, it’s a case of we don’t like to raise taxes but how can we raise taxes in such a fashion that the pain is suffered across the board and it’s not too acute in any particular area.
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- State Senator Terry Care on the State’s constitutional obligation to fund public education and prisons, among other things, as well as a moral obligation.
- Wednesday, May 6, 2009.
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What I don’t want to do is have an enormous tax package pass and then have an explosion of revenues once the economy returns and so, therefore, government is again, unleashed. (to expand)
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- Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert on why she wants’s any new taxes to sunset in two years.
- Tuesday, May 5, 2009.
"I don’t agree that we need annual sessions. If you can run Texas without annual sessions you oughta be able to run Nevada.(without them).
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- Mary Lau, President Retail Association of Nevada, on the call, by some, for annual Legislative sessions in Nevada.
- Monday, May 4, 2009.
"You could see a 50% increase to 7 ½ cents. You could even double it and go a dime.
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- State Senator Mike Schneider on the range of increase per gallon, on gas taxes, that he would support. - Thursday, April 30, 2009.
"In my office I don’t use it for partisan purposes. If I were to do that, as the Attorney General, I would be abusing my position. I have never used it for that purpose.
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- Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto maintaining that there was no connection between Lt Governor Brian Krolicki’s thought of running against US Senator Harry Reid and her indictment of the Lt Governor.
- Wednesday, April 29, 2009.
"For a paper like the Review Journal to come out in favor of this I think, I really commend them but I think what’s behind that really is, even in keeping with their Libertarian philosophy, an idea that we want ordered relationships, we want people to be able to order their lives with dignity and to encourage rights and responsibility.
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- Lee Rowland ACLU discussing the Las Vegas Review Journal’s support, editorially, of the Domestic Partnership bill that is moving through the Legislature.
- Tuesday, April 28, 2009.
