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"I still think it’s good to elect judges just by what we saw with the Supreme Court overturning the 2/3rd majority requirement to raise taxes and the last judge that overturned that was just voted out. Nancy Saitta just went in because the voters spoke. They were upset about that.
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- Richard Disney, Conservative activist, speaking against appointing judges.
- Wednesday, November 22, 2006.
"It’s like the guy that says if we don’t have kindergarten we’ll save a 100 million dollars. Well the next argument is, well if you don’t have first grade we’ll save 200 million. Pretty soon we can do away with the whole damn system and we’ve saved a lot of money except everybody goes to prison where we really spend a lot of money.
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- Jim Rogers Chancellor of NSHE speaking in favor of all day kindergarten.
- Tuesday, November 21, 2006.
"We are going to just have to prove that we are good to our word and I don’t think there’s any amount of public relations, I don’t think there’s any amount of talking that’s going to overcome it until they see how we behave once we’re a part of their community.
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- Pat Mulroy GM SNWA on the concerns of White Pine County citizens regarding water issues.
- Monday, November 20, 2006.
"You have to appreciate where I’m coming from with this, serving on the State Democratic Party board, but I don’t see a problem. Don’t even show up to the legislature. It’s a long drive. Stay home. Let Barbara do her thing. Not a problem. I’m absolutely OK with this.
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- Teresa Benitez-Thompson Community Activist responding to the discussion of the problems Republican Minority Leader Garn Mabey will have in the Assembly in the upcoming session. - Thursday, November 16, 2006.
"It kinda bleeds out the sides and as soon as an area is defined and redevelopment starts then you really start to see a lot of remodeling, you really start to see other entrepreneurs jumping into the market, being creative with other ideas and so our hope is that we are just the cornerstone of redevelopment and that whole area around Sparks really starts to transform.
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- Par Tolles, President Trammell Crow Nevada, discussing the three phased redevelopment of downtown Sparks they are pursuing and what happens on the periphery. - Wednesday, November 15, 2006.
"They’re not just Democrats, they’re Union Democrats so whatever the various unions at the County want, they’ll get. With Tom Collins, Guinchigliani, Brager I think there (will) be open season.
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- Tom Mitchell Editor Las Review-Journal on the effect of adding Democrats Chris Giunchigliani and Susan Brager to the Clark County Commission.
- Tuesday, November 14, 2006.
"It’s incalculable really. I remarked not to long ago to a reporter from the New York Times that Nevada has had a history, really, of having very great, very powerful United States Senators from Pat McCarran through Paul Bible. But no one has ever attained what Harry has attained. He, in his position, will set the agenda for the United States Senate. It’s just an incredibly powerful position.
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- Frank J. Farenkopf Jr., President and CEO American Gaming Assn. discussing Harry Reid's ascension to Majority Leader of US Senate.
- Monday, November 13, 2006.
"I hope that nobody thinks the 2007 Legislative session is a forum for revisiting what happened in Election 2006.
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- State Senator Mark Amodei speaking to recent post election comments by State Senator Dina Titus regarding Governor Elect Jim Gibbons.
- Thursday, November 9, 2006.
"I never would want a day to pass when a student needed help or assistance and they didn’t get it because either I wasn’t available or they couldn’t get the support that they needed.
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- Andy Kelly, Hug High School Principal, responding to the question of why he allows students direct access to him without going through layers of bureaucracy.
- Wednesday, November 8, 2006.
"We own certificated water rights, we’re using them right now on the ranches. We’re growing substantial crops. What we’ve also agreed to do, though, is to keep some of those water rights there. We’re not going to move all the water rights; that’s crazy. So we’ve made commitments to Lincoln County and to Clark County, to keep some of that water there to use for mitigation.
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- Harvey Whittemore Developer of Coyote Springs commenting on the water rights he owns in Lincoln County and what he’s currently using them for in Coyote Springs. - Tuesday, November 7, 2006.
"As much as Democrats like to think that they’ve got the machine going this time,
I don’t think anybody beats Republicans on “Get Out the Vote”. How they do it, I don’t know but they do a marvelous job at it.
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- Bob Crowell, Kummer Kaempfer, on who has the best ability to get out the vote.
- Monday, November 6, 2006.
"If I had 20-20 hindsight I would have walked through this rainstorm, become soaking wet, in the only one suit I had that day and let it go at that.
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- Congressman Jim Gibbons discussing the events of October 13th when he chose to wait out a storm in a restaurant bar. - Thursday, November 2, 2006.
"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.
