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"I think because we did such a good job, even though I know some people are not happy, that we have been noticed on a national level. We are serious about our politics here in Nevada and I don’t think anybody ever thought we were, so that’s a good thing.
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- Sue Lowden, Chairman-Nevada Republican Party, on how Nevada will remain an early political force along with New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina.
- Tuesday, February 26, 2008.
"I laugh at such an uneducated response. Of course the sun doesn’t shine all the time; of course the wind doesn’t blow all the time. Geothermal does pour from the earth all the time and that’s why you need back up but do we need to use dirty coal to back up, of course not. There’s so many other things we can do. Natural gas, there’s biomasses, all kinds of things we can do and no matter how many times you repeat it, that coal is clean, coal’s dirty."
- US Senator Harry Reid – Majority Leader US Senate responding to Sierra Pacific Resources Chairman Michael Yakira’s comments on the need for back up power from coal fired plants in White Pine County. - Thursday, February 21, 2008.
"If you are a business and you’ve got a corporate jet and you want to base that jet someplace. You want to know that you’ve got fuel available all the time. That you can get in day and night, that the runways will be cleared. That in the event, the unprecedented event, that you need some emergency services they’re there within two minutes. We’ve got all that."
- Krys Bart President/CEO Reno Tahoe Int. Airport giving a great sales pitch to get more corporate jet business to her airport because they offer superior services. - Wednesday, February 20, 2008.
"If looking at the tax structure means adding taxes, I don’t think so."
- State Senator Mike McGuinness in answer to the question of whether the next Legislature will seriously take a look at the State’s tax structure. - Tuesday, February 19, 2008.
"From the negative came a little positive. People are paying attention. I’m not sure we can hope for a writers strike every election cycle, but it seems to me that this is more interesting than a lot of the shows you watch..
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- Sig Rogich, Rogich Communications Group, on how the writers strike has made the Presidential debates first run television.
- Thursday, February 14, 2008.
"I’m a believer that you run for the Presidency; you don’t do a slow walk.
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- Majority Leader Bill Raggio, on the failed Giuliani Presidential campaign.
- Wednesday, February 13, 2008.
"They do operate, ultimately, in a political environment. They have to get licenses. They have to get building permits. They have to do everything you do in a political environment so of course they are going to participate and obviously Mr. Adelson’s made the decision to participate in a very big way.
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- Mike Hillerby, Wingfield Nevada Group, on Sheldon Adelson, of Las Vegas Sands’ support of Freedoms Watch, a conservative group that seeks to match or exceed the influence of MoveOn.Org.
- Tuesday, February 12, 2008.
"Our question is how much is enough? When is enough, is enough? Is a quarter of a billion dollars enough?
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- Bill Weidner, President, Las Vegas Sands, on their desire to cap the Las Vegas Convention Authority’s share of the room tax revenue and use increases in future room tax revenue for other state purposes.
- Monday, February 11, 2008.
"I have never seen anything like it and I just love it. I love the excitement in the young people. I love going into stores and having people talk about politics. Because I’ll tell ya, I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s great.
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- Barbara Buckley, Speaker of the Assembly, on the success of the Nevada Caucus.
- Thursday, February 7, 2008.
"He has a very short fuse. I think he may have it under control but you know that’s his make up. If he is crossed or something happens that he doesn’t like, I mean, he physically reacts. And I’ve sat next to him in committee, for 5 or 6 years and when he would do that, I would have to use the word, he scared the bejeesus out of me.
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- Former Congressman Barbara Vucanovich on John McCain. - Wednesday, February 6, 2008.
"I don’t. I don’t think that’s the way we should conduct business in this State.
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- Assemblywoman Debbie Smith, Vice Chair of the Education Committee, on whether she supports the teachers’ initiative petition to raise only the gaming tax. - Tuesday, February 5, 2008.
"We’re taking money from the Chinese and we’re going to send everybody a check so they can buy an HDTV from the Chinese. I mean how’s that going to stimulate the economy?
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- Former State Senator Ernie Adler on the proposed stimulus package before Congress.
- Monday, February 4, 2008.
"Even after this we are being told that this area will not designated as a flood plain by the insurance companies and the different organizations.
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- Todd Cutler, Mayor of Fernley, Nevada after major flooding devastated Fernley after a portion of the levee gave way.
- Thursday, January 31, 2008.
"We were the show, in that, it’s really about an 11 day window between New Hampshire and Nevada and it was all about Nevada. I mean, this is why it serves the whole state that we got to be the early caucus state. The spotlight on Nevada, the media attention we got. Wow!
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- Jill Derby, Chairman Nevada State Democratic Party, on how Nevada benefited from being an early caucus state.
- Wednesday, January 30, 2008.
"The private developer capitalized the infrastructure and the development under the watchful eye of the State so they had the inspection requirements and made sure that everything was built to State standards but everything was driven out the private development side and I think everyone found that it was built for 40 to 50% less money, was spent, in actually building it and it was built in about half the time.
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- Lance Gilman, Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, on the results of using 25 million dollars in private funds to build a State interchange.
- Tuesday, January 29, 2008.
"I don’t think something like that is, necessarily, something you have to take into consideration. I think that you have to look at, these are the programs that Nevadans could do without for a little bit longer and just because there’s an extra decrease in what that budget would have been, I think you have to look at what’s good for Nevada at the moment, not necessarily the cheapest.
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- Bryan Wachter, President, UNR College Republicans, discussing his thoughts on programs that receive matching funds being completely cut as against the 4 1/2 % cuts that most of the budget is facing.
- Monday, January 28, 2008.
