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"I think he’s got to be animal, vegetable or mineral, under the Constitution.
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- Mike Griffin, Former District Court Judge, on whether the Vice President Dick Cheney is a member of the Administrative Branch of the Government as he is not a member of the Legislative or Judicial Branches. - Tuesday, June 26, 2007.
"People are stepping up to the plate and contributing like they never have before because they recognize the opportunity for the Democratic Party in Nevada, that the Caucus represents to grow the party, to bolster our infrastructure, to turn the state blue.
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- Jill Derby Nevada State Democratic Party Chair on how well party fundraising has been going in support of the Nevada Caucus.
- Monday, June 25, 2007.
"It creates a system, an organized system, where ads are reviewed for content and what the state bar is looking for is whether or not the ads are deceptive or misleading."
- Constance L. Akridge, Jones Vargas discussing the guidelines for attorney advertising in Nevada. - Thursday, June 21, 2007.
"There is always this tension that kind of runs beneath the Board of Regents with some of the members and the Chancellor since he was appointed Chancellor in 2004. "
- Lenita Powers, RGJ Higher Education journalist discussing the upcoming Nevada Regents Meeting. - Wednesday, June 20, 2007.
"My concern was not about the bill, clearly the bill was good for Washoe County it is great for downtown Reno which I represent. My problem was that there was a much easier way for Mr. Raggio to have handled that. "
- Sheila Leslie, Assemblywoman ( D ) Washoe District 27 discussing flood legislation that was addressed in the Special Session. - Tuesday, June 19, 2007.
"The State Supreme Court is probably the busiest state supreme court in the country. "
- Justice James Hardesty, Nevada Supreme Court,discussing the large amount of appeals in Nevada. - Monday, June 18, 2007.
- Not Available - - Thursday, June 14, 2007.
"The caucuses in Nevada, if you will, are party building. This is the way that we get ready for the general election in 2088, to build up our strength and our infrastructure. "
- Jean Hessburg, Caucus Campaign Director for the Democrats - Wednesday, June 13, 2007.
"With all these term limits and everything I’m seeing more rudeness and arrogance, at the Legislature, than I’ve ever seen before.
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- Bob Cashell, Mayor of Reno on his treatment at the 2007 Legislative session.
- Tuesday, June 12, 2007.
"The candidates aren’t spending time here like they are in New Hampshire and Iowa or even South Carolina. Part of that is it’s just a “shlep” to get out here. And part of it is just that it’s new but really on both sides it’s a game of chicken.
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- Molly Ball, Political Reporter Las Vegas Review Journal,on why the Presidential Candidates are, for the most part, flying over Nevada.
- Monday, June 11, 2007.
"It used to be that it was all unhealthy companies, but that’s changed dramatically. The Harrah’s transaction, the Stations transactions are both very healthy companies. That certainly private equity (companies) said the stock market isn’t valuing them appropriately and we can access the capital to buy that company, run it for three, four, five years and then either flip it in an IPO or sell it to somebody else.
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- Former Harrah’s Corp Chairman Phil Satre, on why major gaming companies are being taken private and what will happen down the road.
- Thursday, June 7, 2007.
"Hey we’re going to eat something. Recognizing you have to eat something, let’s try to make it something that’s easy to swallow. Frankly the Las Vegas Convention Authority has a lot of money. So diverting 20 million is like me buying you a cup of coffee.
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- John Griffin, Kummer Kaempfer on gaming agreeing to help fund road construction by diverting funds from the room tax money that would have gone to the LVCVA.
- Wednesday, June 6, 2007.
"That concern was thoroughly justified. But hey, we’re who we are and long speeches is what we do, I guess.
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- State Senator Bob Beers commenting on Majority Leader Bill Raggio’s concern about long speeches slowing down the process.
- Monday, June 4, 2007.
"I think there is a major crash happening in 09. We’re up against the spending caps. We’ve done absolutely nothing; in fact they did something worse than nothing by putting a tiny little bit of money into the deferred liability for the Public Employees benefit system. That train is headed off the track in a big hurry. The problem is both the Legislature thinks they did something, the public thinks they did something. So we have a huge crash coming.
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- Mike Hillerby, Wingfield Nevada Group on what to expect in the 2009 Legislative session.
- Monday, June 4, 2007.
"It is very, very, volatile. There are some folks up there that absolutely, positively, don’t want to know that thing is five miles over there, in their county.
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- State Senator Mark Amodei, speaking of a major residential project that is planned for Storey County that has a lot of opposition that only wants commercial and industrial development; leaving Washoe and Lyon counties to house people. - Thursday, May 31, 2007.
"I have a very good relationship with Walt Rulffes in Southern Nevada and Paul Dugan in Northern Nevada. In fact they are both going fishing with me this year and we’ll talk about education. K through 12; K through 16.
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- Jim Rogers, Chancellor NSHE speaking of his efforts to work hand in hand with K through 12.
- Wednesday, May 30, 2007.
