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"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.
"I talked to Mayor Bloomberg yesterday morning for about a half hour on it. He is so excited about it. He’s put nearly four hundred of his schools in New York City into this Empowerment program. It gives parents choice of schools. It gives the teachers and principals the ability to control not just the curriculum for these students but the budgets for the school and it gives the teachers pay for performance based on meaningful standards by which they can be measured.
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- Governor Jim Gibbons, in his first interview following his State of the State speech on his Empowerment Program.
- Tuesday, January 23, 2007.
"In the past, because we haven’t had a professional in this office, one that has a lot of management accounting experience, experience acting as Controller, they haven’t used the Controllers office the way they should. The Controller is the CFO of the state.
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- State Controller Kim Wallin on why she wasn’t brought in on the budget process.
- Monday, January 22, 2007.
"My intent was not everything needs to be a new law. Sometimes we should do it because it’s the right thing to do without codifying it.
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- State Senator Valerie Weiner on the success in getting unhealthy foods out of school vending machines, snack boxes and lunches on a voluntary basis.
- Thursday, January 18, 2007.
"For years we’ve had programs with thousands of profoundly gifted children, around the country, where we counseled them on how to deal with schools. So the schools would meet their needs and so in a sense we were always bargaining with the schools trying to get them to meet the needs. Well now we are the school. Now we’re on the other end of that.
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- Bob Davidson The Davidson Institute who along with his wife founded the Davidson Academy for the Profoundly Gifted.
- Wednesday, January 17, 2007.
"I’ll turn the phone off. That’s probably Senator Titus calling on the phone right now. So I’ll put it away.
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- State Senator Bill Raggio, joking in response to his cell phone going off during his interview, when he had been asked about Senator Titus, who on the campaign trail, had heavily promoted full day kindergarten and in a previous answer he had said he didn - Tuesday, January 16, 2007.
"That is so Jim Rogers!
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- Marlene Lockard Capital Strategies on NSHE Chancellor Jim Rogers two word memo resigning his post by writing “I Quit” He rescinded his resignation before the three day grace period was up and continues in that position.
- Monday, January 15, 2007.
"In terms of political image, Governor Gibbons really has a challenge. The challenge is to get out of your comfort zone with some of the choices who are in your back yard, people you might have know for a long time, to stretch out a little bit and make some choices from the South. It is important. Obviously 70%of the population or more lives down here in Clark County so it makes no sense politically for him to circle the wagons, as it were, with so many choices from the North. "
- John L. Smith columnist, Las Vegas Review Journal discussing Governor Gibbons’ appointments. - Thursday, January 11, 2007.
"I think Garn is doing a good job. And I think he is new to the position and everyone needs to take a breath and let him do the job. It is easy to be critical. We are all Republicans and I am hoping that we’ll all work together and move forward. And I can tell you that the caucus supports Garn whole heartedly, as do I, as leader and I am looking forward to working with him in that position. "
- Heidi Gansert, Assemblywoman, (R) Washoe #25, discussing Republican Assembly Minority Leader Garn Mabey’s performance. - Wednesday, January 10, 2007.
