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"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.
"They used some kind of line item veto.
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- Judge Dianne Steel, candidate for Supreme Court on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on PISTOL, the Eminent Domain petition, was not appropriate.
- Thursday, September 28, 2006.
"Our Constitution is now six times the size of the US Constitution.
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- Ross Miller, Democratic candidate for Secretary of State commenting on the need to change the Initiative process to make it more difficult to qualify for the ballot. - Wednesday, September 27, 2006.
"It’s the last for at least a decade.
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- Governor Kenny Guinn speaking of the increase in taxes in 2003 Legislative session.
- Tuesday, September 26, 2006.
"To the extent that I believe the people of Nevada spoke, by signing that petition, I think we should have listened.
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- Judge Nancy Saitta, Candidate for Supreme Court on TASC being removed from the ballot. - Monday, September 25, 2006.
