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"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.
"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.
