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"He is the Chief Executive. He does not have to go to the Legislature to ask permission. Out of courtesy you do. But to not ask permission, you advise them all in the appropriate time.
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- Mary Lau President/CEO Retail Association of Nevada regarding complaints from state leaders that the Governor did not inform them in advance of his request for potential budget cuts.
- Wednesday, November 7, 2007.
"We put nearly one billion dollars of new spending, over and above the last biennial budget, in this budget, one billion dollars. We’re asking just for a portion of that, to be able to ramp down that increase in new spending. We’re not really cutting anything. We’re slowing the increase of spending down. It’s much different than the projections and the forecasts and sort of the hand ringing that I see going on from a lot of different sectors.
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- Governor Jim Gibbons in response to the criticisms of his potential 5% budget cuts.
- Tuesday, November 6, 2007.
"Well, it was the public that pointed it out to us that gaming was where they would like to see the tax increase occur. We provided, in our survey, other possibilities, some sort of business tax, some sort of mining increase, that sort of thing and gaming is where they said that they would support increases to help fund K12 education.
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- Lynn Warne, President NV State Education Association, on why they decided upon an increase in the gross gaming tax as a way to support K12 education.
- Monday, November 5, 2007.
"We’ve had some private phone calls that were, how do you put it in your world, frank and open. Part of them probably weren’t politically correct but we’re trying to get to the bottom of it. We are working on new language that hopefully will satisfy the concerns that we don’t think are valid but we’re going to make a good faith effort and get this resolved.
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- State Senator Randolph Townsend, on the failure of the Legislative Commission to agree on the clarifying language of the Green law. - Thursday, November 1, 2007.
"Certainly on the business side we already are a competitor to television. The car dealers up and down Kietzke decide where to put their money and they are going to put some of it with us and some of it with broadcast and certainly both sides would like a bigger slice of that pie.
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- Ted Power, Publisher Reno Gazette Journal, on whether newspapers are now in direct competition with television stations.
- Wednesday, October 31, 2007.
"In my school system we met with students to try and find out just exactly the way they wanted to learn, that they would learn best. And it was amazing; they said if we could podcast our reports, if we could instant message our teachers. If that’s the way that they are going to learn, then that’s the way we need to teach them.
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- Linda Williams AASL Chair of the No Child Left Behind task force answering the question “Is the internet the greatest threat to students reading books”.
- Tuesday, October 30, 2007.
"Across the United States 12% of the population, those over the age of 65, are using 42% of the health care. So a minor shift in over age 65 population causes a significant shift in utilization. And that’s what we anticipate in the next several years in our community.
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- Jim Miller, President & CEO Renown Health on why there is guaranteed growth in the hospital industry. - Monday, October 29, 2007.
"Who doesn’t hate that but the reality is they have come and we have to absorb them and then we have to find a way to streamline the entry process for people who have the credentials and have done the hard work. They have to be rewarded.
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- Clay Jenkinson, Presidential Historian, on the complaints of legal aliens who are unhappy that illegal aliens might get a path to citizenship ahead of others who have applied legally.
- Thursday, October 25, 2007.
"At this point the Governor is just asking for recommendations. So to write letters and go to the media and say we are not going to do it then it’s going to be up to the Executive branch to make those decisions.
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- Vinson Guthreau J3 Strategies, on the Governor’s request for potential budget cuts and the response from the Chancellor and the Chairman of the Clark County Commission. - Wednesday, October 24, 2007.
"I find myself in a very strange position, defending the Chancellor. I don’t normally do that.
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- Howard Rosenberg, University Regent, discussing his support of the Chancellor’s request that the Rainy Day Fund be used instead of the Governor’s idea of potential budget cuts.
- Tuesday, October 23, 2007.
"Well I’m not going to tell you about the conversation, but it’s been widely reported that he wasn’t happy, and I think that’s accurate. He hoped that people would stay neutral for longer but I’m 45 years old and I can think for myself.
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- Rory Reid, Chairman Clark County Commission, on whether his father US Senator Reid was displeased that his son came out in favor of Hillary Clinton for President.
- Monday, October 22, 2007.
"Especially when you bounce it off the law that says if you have a conflict in Nevada you’re supposed to not vote, not quit.
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- State Senator and President of the Nevada Mining Association, Mark Amodei, on why he doesn’t have to resign his Senate Seat over potential conflicts between his State Service and his day job.
- Thursday, October 18, 2007.
"I think we should be getting a better, more allotment from Federal land sales when we auction off land to provide for further growth. We should be putting more of that money into infrastructure.
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- Robert Uithoven, Political Consultant, on how not to raise taxes to pay for Nevada’s financial needs.
- Wednesday, October 17, 2007.
"And it’s going to be more significant whether we like it or not.
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- Ty W. Cobb former advisor to President Reagan, discussing China’s investment strategy in the United States with China’s 1.2 trillion dollars in foreign currency reserves, a lot of which will be used to buy up American companies.
- Tuesday, October 16, 2007.
"Remember that children and families aren’t just hungry at Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s really great to help this time of year, every time of year, and we’d like to see the churches and other community groups involved.
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- Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie, on the plight of homeless children and families across the State. - Monday, October 15, 2007.
"I’ll put that blame on me. Because as a party we haven’t been registering as diligently as we should, and we are now.
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- Sue Lowden Chairman Nevada Republican Party on the threat to the seats of State Senators Bob Beers and Joe Heck due to the increase in Democratic registrations in their districts.
- Thursday, October 11, 2007.
