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"I’ve always tried to run a very positive campaign based on experience and qualifications and my opponent and his boss Mr. Gammick, who have raised all these negative accusations because they can’t qualify in terms of qualifications and experience.
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- Judge Robert Perry, debating Deputy DA Elliot Sattler, in what has been a very ugly race, in Washoe County. - Tuesday, October 28, 2008.
"You engage young people; you engage those who haven’t participated in the past. And then by the time you get to Election Day they tend not to show up. This time it looks like they are showing up.
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- Larry Matheis, Nevada State Medical Association, discussing a benefit of early voting.
- Monday, October 27, 2008.
"For the first time, in probably two decades, the unions are approaching the bargaining table with a realization that the double digit revenue growth is over. Smart unions as well as smart employees come to that table being a part of the solution. I don’t think it’s going to be adversarial. And if it is, the reduction of force is our only option as ”quote” managers or elected officials so it comes down to be part of the solution or force us to use the only thing that we can.
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- Larry Brown, Democratic Candidate for Clark County Commission, on how he will deal with the rising cost of county employees if elected.
- Thursday, October 23, 2008.
"The fact of the economy is people are losing jobs and the jobs aren’t here. I think it’s sending some of those illegal immigrants that came in for the jobs, that’s why they come in, and I think they’re heading home cos the jobs aren’t there.
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- Jill Derby Democratic candidate for CD 2 discussing illegal immigration.
- Wednesday, October 22, 2008.
"The Republican Party seems to shoot itself in the foot far too often
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- Washoe County Republican DA Dick Gammick on what happened to the Republican Party organization in the state.
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008.
"The banks need help from the Federal government so right now they don’t want stories of them refusing to renegotiate. The people who are in their homes right now have a little bit of public relations leverage on their side and they need to take advantage of that.
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- US Senator John Ensign, on what people who have troubled mortgages can do to help themselves.
- Monday, October 20, 2008.
"It’s a natural organic swing of the general mood of the electorate and I don’t know that it can be changed. I think its shoveling sand against the tide in some respects.
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- Pete Ernaut President R & R Partners Public Affairs on what’s occurring in national politics as the pendulum swings towards the Democrats.
- Thursday, October 16, 2008.
"The commission members are unpaid. The commission is unfunded and all the commission members donate and give of their time because this is important cause to them.
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- Leticia Bravo Ombudsman Nevada Commission on Minority Affairs answering the question of why the State should bear the cost of commissions like this one. - Wednesday, October 15, 2008.
"The Al Gore people and those people that are moving forward with the solar, great! Is there a way that they can subsidize it instead of having me subsidize it because I’m old and I can’t afford it?
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- Gary Duarte US Nuclear Energy discussing energy costs with a representative of Friends of the Earth making the case that nuclear power costs 9 cents per kilowatt hour versus solar at 22 cents.
- Tuesday, October 14, 2008.
"If Titus loses in an 06 cycle and an 08 cycle she should probably give up politics.
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- Campaign consultant Robert Uithoven when asked who would prevail in the Porter/Titus race in CD3.
- Monday, October 13, 2008.
"The good news is the vast majority of people in the region are not in favor of the extremist’s victory. The bad news is that the extremists are imbedded in parts of the society that have given them reach and deadly opportunity to conduct attacks on a global scale.
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- General John Abizaid (Rtd), Former Commander of the United States Central Command, on the situation in Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan. - Thursday, October 9, 2008.
"It’s a non debate, it’s a joint appearance.
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- Larry Matheis, Executive Director, Nevada State Medical Association, describing the second Presidential debate.
- Wednesday, October 8, 2008.
"Nuclear power is a viable and vital ingredient, in my view, if we are going to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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- Senator John McCain discussing the benefits of nuclear power.
- Tuesday, October 7, 2008.
"It wasn’t a yes either.
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- Speaker of the Assembly, Barbara Buckley, when asked if she was planning on running for Governor in 2010 she did not say no.
- Monday, October 6, 2008.
"We felt that when Stations and Wynn came together, we felt it was very important to do something now and other casinos and other heads of the casinos really were looking for a broad based tax solution and frankly we looked at the practicality of doing that immediately and were fearful that that wouldn’t be accomplished.
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- Marybel Batjer, VP Harrah’s Entertainment, on why her group of casinos were proceeding, along with the NSEA to promote a 3% increase in the room tax rate for Clark and Washoe Counties, while other major casinos were not. - Thursday, October 2, 2008.
"The Reno, Tahoe, Sparks area is exciting for us. I didn’t know Sparks existed until 5 years ago. It really is The Adventure Place. Where else in the world is the largest concentration of ski and snowboard users in the world. We’ve got golf courses. We’ve got the Truckee River for fly fishing and kayaking. We’ve got Pyramid Lake opens up here on October 1st. We’ve got hunting and fishing and camping, hiking and mountain biking. Those are sports that we live and we thought wow! We could put a store there, right there in that Mecca.
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- Steve Scheel, CEO Scheel’s All Sports on why locating the world’s largest sporting goods store in Sparks, Nevada made sense.
- Wednesday, October 1, 2008.
