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"We’re not training enough physicians in this State and in this Country. Secondly they’re headed towards the same baby boomer cycle the rest of us are and thirdly they’re under threat as far as their income. When you have, let’s say, a family practitioner making less than $100,000 a year. He’s a small businessman having to take all those risks, the attractiveness goes away.
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- Ed Epperson President and CEO Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare on the need to support physicians.
- Tuesday, April 24, 2007.
"I have some problems with toll roads. I think they’re more of an Eastern mindset than a Western mindset and whatever we do, there has to be mass transit component, because I do have people telling me they want to get out of their cars.
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- State Senator Maggie Carlton Clark #2, on The Governor’s proposal for public private partnerships to alleviate the 3.8 billion dollar roads shortfall.
- Monday, April 23, 2007.
"We'd much rather spend our money on education
and other things than building more prisons.
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- State Senator Mike McGinnis looking for ways to ease the prison overcrowding crisis by perhaps releasing non-violent offenders, people who are in prison for drugs, and giving them counseling and rehab.
- Thursday, April 19, 2007.
"If the gaming people would support it: a tax on a room, my understanding, for every dollar room tax, would make about 45 million dollars per year.
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- Assembly Minority Leader Garn Mabey (D) on one of the ways he would support raising revenues to meet the 3.8 billion shortfall for transportation with mainly tourists footing the bill.
- Wednesday, April 18, 2007.
"There’s always a possibility that we could go into one, two, three, four special sessions, one dayers, till we can get some kind of consensus built with the Governor.
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- State Senator Randolph Townsend on what it may take to meet the needs of our growing State.
- Tuesday, April 17, 2007.
"He’s not going to slap a tax on people and say “eat this”.
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- Mary Lau President Retail Association of Nevada discussing how she believes Governor Gibbons will allow a vote of the people to decide if they want to raise taxes for roads. - Monday, April 16, 2007.
"You certainly see this new coalition for roads, with signs going up. You see all the lobbyists scurrying around, we need this money. But they’re the same people who supported him for Governor when he was saying “no new taxes” so they’re kinda in a box themselves.
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- Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus on whether a new coalition of business and construction is having an effect on the Governor’s thoughts towards any tax increase for roads. - Thursday, April 12, 2007.
"I find it hard to believe that the Governor would veto the DSA. That would cause a special session. That would cause schools to delay starting time. I’m hoping that instead of issuing threats that we can work together and improve the education budget.
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- Barbara Buckley, Speaker of the Assembly on the Governors threat to veto the Distributive School Account if it contained funding for full day kindergarten.
- Wednesday, April 11, 2007.
"I would like to give this Governor a chance to succeed. I respect the Office of the Governor and I think too much attention is being given to extra curricular events around the Governors office. My purpose is, once the election is over, put elections behind and try to work towards common goals.
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- Bill Raggio, Senate Majority Leader discussing the adverse press Governor Gibbons has been receiving lately.
- Tuesday, April 10, 2007.
"If Mr. Rogers wants to dispute the facts, well let him come in and dispute the facts. But I’ll tell you he’s getting $153 million dollars more, in my budget, after these reductions, than he was before.
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- Governor Jim Gibbons in response to University Chancellor Jim Rogers refusal to reduce his requested increases in the NSHE budget.
- Monday, April 9, 2007.
"Moveon.org is very upset with the way Democrats are acting in Congress and they are actually getting motivated to say ‘Hey we elected you people and you are not acting the way we asked you to do.’ So I think there is a lot of discontent and I think the results this week show it."
- Randi Thompson discussing low turnout in the Las Vegas 2007 Municipal Elections held this week.
- Thursday, April 5, 2007.
"I’m not saying what they did and how they did it was correct or even how they approached Congress when they were questioned on it but they are still at will attorneys and the President and his administration has a right to hire and fire."
- Congressman Dean Heller referring to the 8 fired US attorneys - Wednesday, April 4, 2007.
"Everyday, at the Legislature, when I walk over there, I am stopped by somebody or some group saying, please get the Governor to raise taxes or raise fees for my program. And they are good programs. You don’t have to denigrate the worth of them. But he, to this point has said no repeatedly and that’s one of the things that I don’t think we hear enough about. That pressure on this Governor, to raise taxes and raise fees is immense and he’s withstood it to this point. "
- Steve Robinson Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Gibbons - Tuesday, April 3, 2007.
"I feel very blessed that I found something that worked because at age 21 that’s about the last thing you want is to be in a wheel chair the rest of your life."
- Andrea Whittemore patient at the Whittemore/Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease being treated for the past 8 years with an experimental drug for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Monday, April 2, 2007.
"While it’s really not appropriate, probably, for Governor Gibbons to be over here every single day, it is really appropriate for his staff to be here. And we would certainly welcome that.
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- Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie discussing how frequently the Assembly Democrats would like to be visited by the Governor’s Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff.
- Thursday, March 29, 2007.
"It’s the name of the game in politics, hypocrisy. Don’t do as I do, do as I say.
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- Bill Bilyeu commenting on State Treasurer Kate Marshall putting her name and picture on a State government newspaper insert after complaining about former Treasurer Brian Krolicki’s appearance in TV commercials during his tenure. - Wednesday, March 28, 2007.
