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"An awful lot of folks still either grew up on a farm, grandma and grandpa had a farm, or their goal someday is to move out to an acreage after they retire even though they’re working in the city. So we bring back a lot of memories and a lot of connections to their past that people enjoy watching. "
- Patrick Gottsch, President and Founder of the RFD-TV who just signed Don Imus discussing the appeal of RFD-TV to people that live in urban areas of the country. - Thursday, November 29, 2007.
"It’s voluntary for the agencies to turn those debts over to us, to collect them. Some cases we get them 722 days old, when they turn them over. You not going to collect them."
- State Controller Kim Wallin on the inefficiencies within State Government that leaves the State with 35 million dollars in receivables they are likely not to be able to collect. - Wednesday, November 28, 2007.
"I was just recently, within the last year, on a major accident, on my fulltime job as a battalion chief, with an undocumented, unlicensed, uninsured person who killed several people on our freeway in Southern Nevada. That’s a tough issue so I can see both sides of it. I’d have to see the details. I think there’s some merit to the licensing but I’m not sure how far we want to go. "
- John Oceguera Assembly Majority Leader on the idea of giving drivers licenses to illegal aliens so they could get insurance - Tuesday, November 27, 2007.
"Certainly, it’s not another seat we needed to have in this election cycle. We have now 23 seats that we have to defend in this election cycle."
- US Senator John Ensign on the news of Trent Lott imminent resignation from the US Senate - Monday, November 26, 2007.
"What we are doing now is promulgating, more seriously, the present policies which would have precluded an unencrypted, un-passworded, thumb drive, from being taken out of the office.
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- Dr. Milton Glick, President, University of Nevada, Reno on the loss of a thumb drive containing students’ personal information.
- Wednesday, November 21, 2007.
"I’d look to what we did between 1776 and when we organized our Constitution and then up to 1913, we didn’t have it.(an income tax). But we didn’t have an empire to maintain and we weren’t in the welfare business and we had tariffs and we had excise taxes, we had some user fees.
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- Presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul (R), on how he wants to get rid of the IRS and income taxes over time.
- Tuesday, November 20, 2007.
"They got very lively. They heckled, they booed Wolf Blitzer when he let Obama and Hillary Clinton go at it for too long; saying bring the other candidates in. If Senator Edwards was going after Senator Clinton too much they booed him. They really inserted themselves into the debate.
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- Anjeanette Damon, Political Reporter Reno Gazette-Journal on how the audience stole the show at the Nevada Democratic debate in Las Vegas, where she viewed the action from the debate floor.
- Monday, November 19, 2007.
"I think it’s unfortunate that a lot of the expenditure side and tax side discussions are driven by politics, not policy, and with an election coming up that is very important both on the national level and for the caucuses that are coming up. It’s who can make comments that can get them press. I’m sorry, it’s sounds very cynical but that’s exactly the way I see it.
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- Carole Vilardo, Nevada Taxpayers Association, on negative comments directed toward Governor Gibbons for his handling of the current, potential, budget crisis. - Thursday, November 15, 2007.
"The Reno Tahoe event is an absolutely stellar event, from a marketing perspective, which is my end of things. It’s a match made in heaven. They’re out there marketing this great Northern Nevada area to the world and showing off all the great attributes it’s got and drawing more and more tourists to this area and that’s exactly what we want to do and so it’s a perfect vehicle for what we want to do and it’s really a step up for Red.
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- Dave Claflin, VP Marketing, Red Development Inc., on why his company is investing 1.6 million dollars in the Reno Tahoe Open golf tournament over the next two years.
- Wednesday, November 14, 2007.
"I like him a lot and he does a lot of good things. He’s a fantastic cheerleader for the system. But this is government 101 and these kinds of things have happened for as long as we had governments. Because their revenue, no one’s ever been able to figure out in the entire history of the world how to decouple government revenue from the economy. And when the economy waxes and wanes, government revenue waxes and wanes. That’s just a reality that I believe that those who govern us need to be aware of and prepare for.
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- State Senate Bob Beers, on Chancellor Jim Rogers initial refusal to offer potential budget cuts to the NSHE budget that were requested by Governor Gibbons.
- Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
"( Laughter) That’s the first I’ve heard of that. I’m sure Mayor Geno would be happy to hear that. No, I haven’t considered that at all. But thanks for the offer. (Laughter) The pay is better.
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- State Senator Maurice Washington responding to rumors that he would be running for Mayor of Sparks.
- Monday, November 12, 2007.
"From my standpoint the health of the State is a hell of lot more important than whether he gets a second term or not. His political future is problem, not mine.
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- Jim Rogers Chancellor, NSHE, who is pushing for a corporate tax in Nevada on what would happen to Governor Gibbons chances for a 2nd term if he didn’t veto any corporate tax passed by the Legislature.
- Thursday, November 8, 2007.
"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.
