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"It’s one thing to say something and another thing to read what it is that you’ve said and much of what I said, I came off looking and I’m afraid I was behaving, childishly, self indulgently, waspishly and definitely imprudently. The Supreme Court has made their decision, I don’t agree with the decision but the decision has been made. Now we need to move on.
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- Howard Rosenberg, NSHE Regent, on his reaction to the Supreme Court decision that took him off the 2008 ballot.
- Thursday, July 31, 2008.
"I would be a proponent of expanding the mission of the SAGE commission to higher education.
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- Regent candidate Bill Cobb on how to find ways to solve the higher education budget problems.
- Wednesday, July 30, 2008.
"I think that my record frankly has been that of a judicial activist and I don’t want to disagree with any of my opponents who say they don’t believe in it but I think that’s the job of the courts.
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- Supreme Court Justice Candidate, Don Chairez, on whether he would legislate from the bench if elected.
- Tuesday, July 29, 2008.
"Why sign a pledge when that’s one’s philosophy.
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- Candidate for the Assembly and former Secretary of State Cheryl Lau on her refusal to sign a pledge to not raise taxes.
- Monday, July 28, 2008.
"It was organized as a giant photo op. Which ,of course, what it is. Whether it’s McCain or Obama, it’s a photo op.
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- Tad Dunbar, anchor The Dunbar Report News 4, discussing the media coverage of Barack Obama on his international tour.
- Thursday, July 24, 2008.
"He telephoned me in January and told me that a wealthy man who had sued his father and lost five years ago called him and offered him unlimited funds to run against me so he’s running and we have a contested race.
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- Judge Brent Adams on why he has drawn an opponent in his race to retain his seat.
- Wednesday, July 23, 2008.
"I’ve never been involved in party politics before. When I hear I’m the “Old Guard”, it makes me laugh because I’ve never held an office before.
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- Sue Lowden, Chairman, Nevada Republican Party, disagreeing that the “Old Guard” prevented the reconvening of the Republican Convention. - Tuesday, July 22, 2008.
"I could not believe that anybody would think that somebody who had been deported from our country for committing a crime of a sexual nature against a child should be put back on probation but Judge Perry did.
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- Elliot Sattler, Candidate District Court Judge Dept 9, on one of the reasons he decided to run against a sitting judge.
- Monday, July 21, 2008.
"If it gets to 14% (we) have to be in a position of asking which programs can we live without. That’s very painful in a state that needs more education not less education.
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- Dr Milton Glick President UNR on the likelihood of far deeper budgets cuts.
- Thursday, July 17, 2008.
"I don’t like negative campaigning and I don’t want to talk ill about my opponent. I think she could have better spent her time trying to get the majority in the Assembly than trying to upset the Senate. We’ve got the majority in the Senate by one vote and solving these problems is not going to be done by sitting back and saying I vote no on everything.
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- Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio on his opponent, Sharron Angle’s record of voting no a majority of the time when she was in the Assembly.
- Wednesday, July 16, 2008.
"There’s more kids with Autism than there are with Juvenile Diabetes, Cancer and HIV combined and the big difference is that insurance doesn’t cover the treatments for Autism.
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- Ralph Toddre, Founder and Executive Director of the Autism Coalition of Nevada, discussing the financial ramifications for families with Autistic children.
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008.
"If you think I’m hitting at the State Department of Education, you’re right.
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- Sharron Angle on how she would like to see the State Department of Education mostly dismantled, to save money.
- Monday, July 14, 2008.
"I don’t go in there and do an analysis of how great their administration is. I love the Presidents and yes, I do look to their leadership, but after that, no! You look to the classroom and you look to the programs that are offered. This is an opportunity to do that.
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- State Senator Randolph Townsend on the firings of 40 administrators this week at UNR.
- Thursday, June 26, 2008.
"Our goal is to reach that number, to balance the budget without tax increases and to do that as expeditiously as possible and there’s going to be some pain.
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- State Senator Bill Raggio on how the Governor and the Legislature need to close a budget shortfall, potentially as high as 290 million dollars.
- Wednesday, June 25, 2008.
"Last Friday I spoke to Bill Raggio probably 7 times, on the phone. Some of them were 15, 20 minute conversations. We have had him on conference calls, where we’ve been on a conference call even since Friday for probably more than an hour.
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- Governor Jim Gibbons, addressing published reports that the Governor had not talked to Senator Raggio for more than ten minutes in length, during the recent budget planning process.
- Tuesday, June 24, 2008.
"Do you want to keep people who are left working whole entirely or do you want layoffs.
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- Carole Vilardo, Nevada Taxpayers Association, on choices facing the Governor and the Legislature. - Monday, June 23, 2008.
