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"I think there is a difference between being a conservative and being an extremist.
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- State Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio in reference to his opponent, Sharron Angle, in a televised debate in which she chose not to participate.
- Thursday, August 7, 2008.
"It’s too early to tell how it’s going to be, but right now it looks pretty scary,
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- Liz McMenamin, Retail Association of Nevada, on how a low turnout in the Primary on Aug 12 could sweep a more fringe candidate into the General Election.
- Wednesday, August 6, 2008.
"We’ve had just about a 40% shift in registration, that has come about because people are frustrated with the way the country’s gone over the last seven years; disappointed in the Republican Party, that it hasn’t represented fiscal conservatism and policies that rarely support Nevada and Nevada middle class families.
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- Jill Derby, Congressional Candidate for CD 2, on her race with Congressman Dean Heller.
- Tuesday, August 5, 2008.
"I don’t care what the New York Times says, I think speculation is part of the problem.
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- State Senator Dina Titus, candidate for CD 3 upon hearing an editorial by the NYT that drilling for oil in the US and offshore and curbing speculation is not a fix for our energy problems.
- Monday, August 4, 2008.
"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.
