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"I’ll take a half a loaf on the deal and let’s get on down the road.
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- State Senator Mike Schneider on the chances of getting SB 2 passed which asks for over a billion and a half new dollars to get K12 funding to the national average.
- Tuesday, February 20, 2007.
"You look at the three billion dollar need in transportation, certainly a need, no question, and people don’t even blink yet we get the one billion figure again in education and all of a sudden the study is torn apart.
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- Lynn Warne President Washoe Education Association discussing the latest adequacy study claiming a billion dollar shortfall in K12 education funding. - Monday, February 19, 2007.
"I don’t think it would damage him in any way as far as the Legislature right now. "
- John Griffin, Kummer Kaempfer, discussing the Wall Street Journal article about Governor Gibbons being the subject of an FBI probe.
- Thursday, February 15, 2007.
"That’s the other challenge of my job, is to make the Republicans consequential.
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- Randi Thompson, political analyst referring to the lack of mainstream media coverage of the Assembly Republicans agenda. - Wednesday, February 14, 2007.
"We think it’s vital for everyone involved. Because K 12 is the largest part of the budget and we think that relationship needs to stay at a level that will really make a difference. Currently it’s not there.
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- Terry Hickman, Executive Director, Nevada State Education Assn
on his inability to meet with Governor Gibbons.
- Tuesday, February 13, 2007.
"There’s no perfect system. What we have though, is the worst system. What we’re trying to do is make it better. Where the criteria for election of a judge is, that they be able to raise the most money and run the most negative campaign. I think that’s the worst system.
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- Rew Goodenow, President State Bar of Nevada, discussing reforms the State Bar would like to see put in place for the election of judges. - Monday, February 12, 2007.
"No where does it say the road has to be built and the ribbon has to be cut and the trucks running on it. If it’s part of the plans, if they got to grade it, if they got a fence on it, if it’s even in their master plans to be built, that constitutes using it.
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- Kermitt Waters Attorney defending the PISTOL initiative, against concerns that all lands purchased through Eminent Domain would revert to the original owners if the road was not built within 5 years.
- Friday, February 9, 2007.
"It is the good old boys network. It’s the people who want to dictate exactly how everyone votes in the Legislature, rather than having them represent their district and vote what their district wants. It’s those folks who are angry at Ty both in the Democratic and the Republican parties.
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- Paul Mozen, Health Care Consultant, on the ongoing brew ha-ha over Assemblyman Ty Cobb not following tradition by not voting in favor of the election of Barbara Buckley to become Speaker of the Assembly. - Thursday, February 8, 2007.
"I have sworn affidavits from people who say under penalty of perjury “I was at a party at Lake Mead and they showed us how to forge signatures”.
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- Danny Thompson Executive Director/Secretary AFL- CIO who claims to have uncovered massive fraud in the TASC initiative, not from the proponents but from the people they hired to collect signatures.
- Tuesday, February 6, 2007.
"It’s called taking power away from them, of course they’re not going to like it.
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- Randi Thompson, on remarks made by the State Superindent of Education and the School Superintendents of Washoe and Clark Counties on why they said “What is this?” the day after the State of the State, in reference to the Governors Empowerment Program. - Monday, February 5, 2007.
"Most of his allies are running for the Democratic nomination to be President; which says something about, maybe, some problems that he’s got.
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- Larry Matheis, Executive Director Nevada State Medical Association, discussing President Bush’s chances of getting immigration reform through this Congress.
- Thursday, February 1, 2007.
"Out of respect, not only for my office, as a constitutional officer, I was invited by the Governor, but as respect for the Governor. You know we are all united now. We’re looking out for the best interests of the state and we should be working together.
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- Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada Attorney General, on why as a Democrat, she attended the Republican Governor’s Inaugural Ball.
- Wednesday, January 31, 2007.
"There’s a real need for electronic filing, the public clearly wants to look at this information as is evidenced by yesterday and so we’ve got to have electronic filing so they have immediate access to the information.
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- Ross Miller Nevada Secretary of State responding to charges that he had not filed his financial disclosure forms on time when in fact he done so but it hadn’t made it to his web site due to an overworked staff and staffing shortages in his office. - Tuesday, January 30, 2007.
"Well you’ve got guys like Richardson who are Westerners and I know Dick here, is very supportive of Kucinich.
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- Alfredo Alonso, The Law Firm of Lewis and Roca, teasing Republican Dick Gammick over the Democratic Caucus in Nevada and who might win in an upset over Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
- Monday, January 29, 2007.
"Harrah’s Reno is such a small part of that overall company so maybe if they spun it off to a medium sized company, to where Harrah’s Reno would be a big dog in that plan then we’d get some money and remodel and do things like that.
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- Bob Cashell, Mayor of Reno, discussing rumors that Harrah’s Reno might be divested due to the upcoming leveraged buyout and his hope that the name could be franchised.
- Thursday, January 25, 2007.
"That’s the fun of the Legislative session.
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- Assemblywoman Bonnie Parnell on how the Legislature could push through full day kindergarten.
- Wednesday, January 24, 2007.
