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"This idea of a wall is asinine, it’s dumb. Desperate people will go over and under it and the Congress didn’t fund the wall in its entirety so it’s just a cheap political vote.
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- Bill Richardson, Governor of New Mexico, Democratic candidate for President discussing immigration issues.
- Tuesday, March 6, 2007.
"I think there are some things that we should take more control over than we’re doing now and I recognize this may not be popular here in Nevada but I think some things particularly betting on college sports is troublesome to me. I think internet betting is troublesome, which is essentially completely unregulated.
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- Former Senator John Edwards, Democratic for President, in answer to the question “Do you believe the Federal Government should take a role in regulating gaming?”
- Monday, March 5, 2007.
"Did you forget? Were you asleep during the Governor’s State of the State that read like a Christmas ornament tree for $20 billion here, $50 million here? But the Assembly Democrats have their pulse on what Nevadans want and what the top priorities are. And they have every right to re-arrange that budget to fit those needs so that can be done; it is a matter of priorities and the Democrats have the right agenda.
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- Marlene Lockard of Capital Strategies discussing the Governor’s budget.
- Thursday, March 1, 2007.
"By the year 2020 it is indicated that they will be the largest visitor base in the world. No other country will have more people leaving that country to visit other markets than China. And that is something that we are perfectly positioned to take advantage of with our representative office in Beijing, but that is not the only market we need to work for.
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- Tim Maland, Director of the Nevada Commission on Tourism, discussing a marketing campaign the commission has implemented targeting tourists from China. - Wednesday, February 28, 2007.
"It’s not like a group of poor Mexicans are sitting in a rural village saying why don’t we gather every cent we have, give it some criminal who’s going to put us in the back of a truck with no ventilation, smuggle us across the desert, we may die and then go to a country that doesn’t want us, that doesn’t speak our language. One of the things we have to understand is as long as there is this magnet of 2, 5, 10, 20 to 1 disparity in wages, this is going to continue.
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- US Senator Joe Biden, Democrat running for President, discussing his thoughts on legal and illegal immigration.
- Tuesday, February 27, 2007.
"You’re gonna get me, you’re gonna play games with me North and South Nevada. I have got to be careful about this one. This is like San Francisco and Los Angeles. You go ahead and ask the question. Are we almost done I hope?
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- US Senator Chris Dodd Democrat running for President humorously ducking a question about Federal land sales in Nevada and where the money goes, including the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
- Monday, February 26, 2007.
"I look at the first 24 hours, they made it easier to raise taxes and within the first 12 days they did raise taxes. 8 billion dollars on our oil industry thinking that it’s going to lower prices at the pumps if we tax our domestic oil refineries and industries. It just doesn’t make any sense.
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- Congressman Dean Heller on his concerns about Democratic control of the US Congress.
- Thursday, February 22, 2007.
"We believe that the State of Nevada and other states ought to be investing in helping poor children in their rural sections, in the rural parts of their states, learn how to read.
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- Mark Shriver, US Save the Children discussing how his organization compliments what states are doing to improve literacy in rural areas like Pyramid Lake, Nevada.
- Wednesday, February 21, 2007.
"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.
