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"Is this the new level of discourse in American politics and Nevada politics? That the police union and the culinary union can hire private investigators to stalk me and my young children. To secretly videotape my son. To where he’s afraid to go to different parts of our house because he’s afraid of who’s watching him. That they’ve tried to access my children’s medical records. That we’ve received notice that they even intend to subpoena the Catholic Church to try to find out what address I use in my tithing.
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- Lynette Boggs-McDonald Clark County Commissioner on tactics used to try and prove she is living outside her District. - Wednesday, November 1, 2006.
"We’ve got 7700 known gang members in Las Vegas, that doesn’t include the gang members that come in from Southern California and other areas on the weekends and it’s literally by the thousands and these gang members are rivaling the gang members here in Clark County.
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- Jerry Airola, candidate for Clark County Sheriff, discussing gang violence in Las Vegas.
- Tuesday, October 31, 2006.
"As tough as this is to say on a TV show with political reporters and pundits, it has been my experience in these types of things that the less said the better. Paul Laxalt used to have a great saying, which is, that a crisis is often directly proportional to your response and I think in this case the more that they keep focused on their turnout and their ground game, which of course is going to be in full swing this week, I think both campaigns in fact, the less they talk about this and the less they’re involved in this the better for them.
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- Pete Ernaut, President R & R Partners Public Affairs, on what advice he would offer the Gibbons Campaign in this final week before the election.
- Monday, October 30, 2006.
"Isn’t that outrageous? It’s such a ridiculous notion. And it’s very unfortunate because Jon Porter personally knows better.
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- Tessa Hafen Democrat running for Congressional District 3 on being called a carpetbagger by the incumbent. - Thursday, October 26, 2006.
"This is politics at its nastiest. If you look at these races now, they can’t win them on the issues. They haven’t been able to stick anything. They haven’t been able get anything.
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- Mary Lau, President Retail Association of Nevada, defending Jim Gibbons. - Wednesday, October 25, 2006.
"You’ll end up finding small business people who will have to shut their doors.
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- Sean Higgins President of the Smoke Free Coalition explaining the consequences of question 5 passing. He supports question 4.
- Tuesday, October 24, 2006.
"We have enough challenges getting teachers here. Let’s remove one of them.
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- Jim Denton, Jim Denton and Associates, on why Education First should be passed. - Monday, October 23, 2006.
"The exasperating part for me is that all of our problems would be taken care of if our focus, as a Senator or as a President, or as anybody in the administration was on ‘a government by and for the people’ and in my view we have lost that focus.
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- Jack Carter, running for Senate against John Ensign on why he’s running. - Thursday, October 19, 2006.
"Can’t reduce what you haven’t had. They haven’t collected it yet so that’s not an actual reduction. There’s going to be no change in income going to the local Governments .
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- Mary Lau, Retail Association of Nevada, on why voting yes on question 8 won’t cost Nevada school districts money.
- Wednesday, October 18, 2006.
"We’re building two buildings close to 800,000 sq ft also, out at Tahoe Reno Industrial Center and we’ve got interest from 300 and 400,000 square-footers. Which, relative to a couple of years ago, that’s unheard of. Those are large deals for this market.
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- John Stirek, Western Trammell Crow commenting on the amount of interest in businesses moving to Nevada. - Tuesday, October 17, 2006.
"I don’t endorse that. I think that’s too much. I think 30% is way beyond. It’s more than the cost of living would be.
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- Supreme Court Justice Nancy Becker on the fact that
the Governor’s Judicial task force had recommended a 30% pay increase over time for Supreme Court Justices and District Court Judges. - Monday, October 16, 2006.
"I still am very skeptical that a 50,000 voter registration difference can be overcome but boy, if anybody gives it a great shot it’s gonna be Jill Derby she’s done an amazing job.
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- Billy Vassiliadis
CEO R and R Partners on Jill Derby’s chance to beat Dean Heller in CD 2
- Thursday, October 12, 2006.
"The devastation in the families that have autism across this country is unparallelled with any other disease out there. It’s 80% divorce rate, 67 children a day 3 an hour, are now becoming part of this epidemic.
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- Suzanne Wright on why she and her husband NBC/Universal Chairman Bob Wright founded Autism Speaks.
- Wednesday, October 11, 2006.
"It only makes sense that if someone is working full time, that they make enough money to eat. ‘Cuz they’re not driving a car or living in an apartment.
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- Danny Thompson Nevada State AFL-CIO on one of the reasons the minimum wage in Nevada should be raised from $5.15 an hour to $6.15.
- Tuesday, October 10, 2006.
"I as a tax payer and as a business owner I can’t afford the government growth that has been escalating under an Assembly that’s controlled by government employees.
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- Randi Thompson, candidate for Assembly District 31, on whether the legislature should take another look at future State paid government retirees health benefits. - Monday, October 9, 2006.
"Every single tax law that’s passed has heavily benefited the richest few people in America at the expense of the working class families of America.
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- Former President Jimmy Carter on his opinion of the Bush tax policy.
- Monday, October 2, 2006.
