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"She (Lorraine Hunt) has to, she is far behind in the polls. I think Mr. Gibbons has a pretty comfortable lead so obviously anybody behind him is going to have to start that attack, whether that be on Education First or something else I fully expect that, this should come as no surprise to anybody. "
- Alfredo Alonso, Firm of Lewis and Roca, discussing the Hunt Campaign’s attack on gubernatorial candidate Jim Gibbons. - Wednesday, April 19, 2006.
"I think that term limits are unconstitutional especially in the state of Nevada and I think it should be challenged. It should go all the way up to the Supreme Court and challenge the validity of term limits."
- Maurice Washington, State Senator ( R ) Washoe # 2 discussing term limits. - Tuesday, April 18, 2006.
"Personally, from my experience serving for the last eight years I don’t think you can legislate ethics. I have served with some extremely ethical people and I have served with people whose ethics I find very questionable. I think the voters can tell where people line up and the voters are pretty good at separating the ethical and the unethical people, so I am not sure it is just about laws. I think it is about a climate where we all have to take more responsibility for our actions. "
- Sheila Leslie, Assemblywoman ( D ) Washoe District 27, discussing legislation promoting ethical behavior for office holders. - Monday, April 17, 2006.
"To put somebody under term limits and just say be in there, be out, nice to see you, next group, in, out, I’ll tell you it is going to be the lobbyists and the bureaucrats that will run the state under that scenario. I have seen it. I will guarantee you that is what is going to happen and that is not good for Nevada. "
- Randolph Townsend, State Senator ( R ) Washoe # 4, discussing Nevada legislature term limits. - Thursday, March 30, 2006.
"It is terrible for me to read as I am reading his obituary and I am listening to people talking about him, that this is so frequently mentioned, when other things that this noble wonderful man did for our country are second and tertiary to the mentioning that he was involved in the Iran-Contra. When this is a man who fought against it, fought against the ideas, fought against going forward with some of the policy and indeed was unaware of many of the things that occurred that are now referred to as Iran-Contra."
- Marybel Batjer, who spent seven years working for Casper Weinberger at the Defense Department, who died this past week. - Wednesday, March 29, 2006.
"I forecast, at our current pace, the known entitled land, we’ve got about six more years and then what I think will happen then is we will go back downtown and we will go vertical and we will see new high rises come into play in downtown at that point in time."
- Tim Ruffin, Senior Vice President, Colliers International, discussing the future of development in Reno. - Tuesday, March 28, 2006.
"Immunity is amnesty, we feel very strongly, and the President just this morning was talking about it, as they were swearing in new immigrants. Anything that allows people who are here illegally, I mean we do live under a rule of law, that allows those folks to skip ahead of line, ahead of those who have been waiting outside of the country going through the processes, is certainly not going to be something that we are going to support. "
- Scott Bensing, Chief of Staff, Senator John Ensign, discussing the controversy over immigration reform. - Monday, March 27, 2006.
"Well, that has been part of the problem, because of the numbers we don’t really know, but I need to make it real clear that that tax cap needed to happen…Now we need to find out exactly how much of a hit, we know that it is going to be less than what we originally thought before the tax cap and that coupled with the rising cost of construction fees and supplies have really hurt us with regards to having the money that we need to deal with older school and with new school construction. "
- Paul Dugan, Washoe County School District Superintendent, discussing the effect the property tax cap will have on the Washoe County School District. - Thursday, March 23, 2006.
"Yes, I am sure that we did. This was all done by NSA at the time but I know we had the results of those wiretaps, or the intercepts because they are really not wire taps that is a misnomer that the press often uses because it is a totally different process, which is of course classified. "
- Ed Meese, Former U.S. Attorney General, discussing wire tap and intercepts done without going through the FISA court, during the Reagan administration. - Wednesday, March 22, 2006.
"When I became a Democrat people were marching in the streets for civil rights, Martin Luther King was alive, the Vietnam war was going on, and to me at that time that is what the Democratic party represented the party of social change, the party that stood up for what was right. Unfortunately, over the ensuing years I think they have lost their way. After looking good and hard at things after the last election and being involved in the party politics it occurred to me that I really had more in common with the Republican Party, and I switched last July to be a Republican. "
- Dr. Paul Mozen, ( R ) candidate for Assembly District 26, discussing why he changed his party to the Republican Party. - Tuesday, March 21, 2006.
"I am not supporting either of the initiatives. If someone wants to vote for me, I am more than happy to have them vote for me if that is the way you want your government handled. However I do warn you, if you have someone running for a representative office such as Assembly District 26 and all they talk about are initiatives, you need to ask yourself if they are the type of person you want representing you because that sort of shifts the responsibility off of them. You have to say okay what do you really stand for and if they can’t come forward and say how they are going to be as representatives of the people then you have got a problem. "
- Ty Cobb, ( R ) candidate for Assembly District 26, discussing Prop 13 and TASC initiatives and how he feels about the initiative process. - Monday, March 20, 2006.
"We settled with Enron because it was quite clear that in the long run our customers, our owners, the state of Nevada, would be better off if that uncertainty, that potential problem, could be put behind us we could start focusing on the things that matter not a fight about things from the past.
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- Walt Higgins Chairman & CEO, Sierra Pacific Resources, discussing the Enron settlement of $90 million compared to the $330 million they were supposed to pay to Enron
- Thursday, March 16, 2006.
"You can build infrastructure, you can't build water and I am wondering what those extra million people are going to drink.
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- Chris Wicker, Chair, Washoe County Democratic Party, discussing growth challenges in Nevada.
- Wednesday, March 15, 2006.
"We are also seeing a lot of these creative financing packages that these car dealers are doing, that people can't make the payments when it comes time to start making the payments and that is when you start seeing the cars being destroyed.
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- Brian Kunzi, Director, Insurance Fraud Unit Office of the Attorney General, discussing a new trend in insurance fraud where vehicle owners become upside down in their vehicle loans so they decide to report the vehicle stolen and destroy it so they can mak - Tuesday, March 14, 2006.
"The real issue is not robbing Peter to pay Paul, it is we have got to find
other funding sources so we can get this all done so the economy doesn't
flounder on a poor transportation system and that's where the energy should
be focused rather than this north and south struggle over these kinds of
things.
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- Derek Morse, RTC lobbyist, discussing the challenges our state is facing for road development and the North South rivalry over state expenses.
- Monday, March 13, 2006.
"The voters in rural Nevada know Jim Gibbons very well, so a lot of them mentioned him. But I spoke to a lot of voters that also said ” I am keeping my mind open here”. You know they have been voting for Lorraine Hunt, also they are getting to know Bob Beers more and some of his conservative messages appeal to some people out there. I think it is still open for people in the Republican Primary.
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- Anjeanette Damon, political reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal, discussing the campaign for rural voters in the 2006 Governors race.
- Thursday, March 2, 2006.
