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"The vast majority of the people who are coming across and being suicide bombers are not, almost none of them, are Iraqis…This is a war between two ways of life.
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- John Poncy, CEO of Special Operations Consulting, discussing some of the experiences he and his employees have experienced while serving as security in Iraq. - Wednesday, March 1, 2006.
"You know we have dealt with this somewhat in the National Governors Association, it has been an issue on their plate for sometime and I guess what I would say is that the endless litigation has to end somewhere. There are legitimate cases, certainly many of them but what businesses faced over the last 15 or 20 years has got to come to an end and a fund is the best way to do that.
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- Steve Robinson, Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Guinn, discussing in being in favor of the Federal Asbestos Bill
- Tuesday, February 28, 2006.
"I think unfortunately she has brought it on herself. I think Kathy shouldn’t have decided to run for office again. It would have been the gracious thing to do but I also felt that she should resign, and I think you have to have ethics in your own party too. Unfortunately Republicans have a tendency to eat their young and Democrats have a tendency to stay with them regardless of their character.
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- Mary Lau, President/CEO of Retail Association of Nevada, discussing Paul Adams request that Kathy Augustine not run for office as a member of the Republican Party.
- Monday, February 27, 2006.
"She accused me of lying. She said to a reporter, who read to me her statement that ‘it was a matter of character that I didn’t show up there.’ That wasn’t a matter of character, it was a negligent thing. I felt badly for it, it was surely to my harm that it happened but to stoop to the level that you are picking on me over whether or not I have character because I missed an airplane, in my estimation, is the kind of thing that really has been the hallmark, it has been the centerpiece, and she has constructed a series of centerpieces of her campaign that are all negative, they are all like that. I can’t wait to get in a discussion of the real issues because I think what will happen is we are going to find that the person she wants to be today is so dramatically different from the person that has been serving in the legislature.
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- Jim Gibson, (D) Mayor of Henderson, candidate for Governor, discussing attacks from State Senator DinaTitus - Monday, February 27, 2006.
"There was a quarter million dollars thrown in to study chewing gum, 7.5 million (dollars) in one bill that studied psychic teleportation. There are a lot of problems with earmarks and we simply have to get rid of them. "
- Dawn Gibbons, candidate for Congress, discussing Congressional Earmarks and Pork-Barrel spending. - Friday, February 24, 2006.
"It was a responsible thing to do. For those of us that believe the legislature, the elected officials, they and the Governor should have the last say in terms of what that budget looks like and are accountable to the people. "
- Alfredo Alonso, the firm of Lewis and Roca, discussing Jim Gibbons coming out against TASC. - Wednesday, February 22, 2006.
"Of course it’s not having the impact it should have, if it was having the impact it should have a lot of these people wouldn’t be in office. Let’s face it, the forms themselves are a problem, the disclosure laws are a problem, but that said, the voters don’t look at that stuff."
- Erin Neff, Columnist, Las Vegas Review Journal, discussing disclosure laws and gifts legislators receive and how they need to disclose gifts and campaign contributions. - Tuesday, February 21, 2006.
"It is happening now, at a time when there is a perception that everything is at stake. This is not Vietnam, this is not some routine national war effort, this is one where some how the very survival of the country is perceived to be up for grabs. So, this is a tradition that the Bill of Rights works when it works, but in crisis we do bend it and that always creates constitutional problems."
- Clay Jenkinson, Presidential Historian & Jefferson Scholar, discussing the NSA wire taps scandal facing the Bush Administration. - Monday, February 20, 2006.
"We need to start smaller class sizing and continue that at the lower grades, that has to be in particularly those schools who are at risk and we know there is a number of them in the state. So what I see happening is we need to continue with smaller class room sizes, we need to enhance teacher education and they need to be accountable more than any other place at those first three grade levels. "
- Bernice Mathews, State Senator, discussing the number one thing legislators should be doing for education in the next session. - Thursday, February 16, 2006.
"This endorsement by teachers in Nevada union politics, it is about education, teachers and parents and children and schools. I am the only educator in the race so I am delighted to have that endorsement, I don’t care what the R.J. says. The reason they chose me was because I have some good ideas on how to cure some of those problems the R.J. has pointed out, you don’t have to tell me about the problems because I see it everyday in the classroom."
- Dina Titus, ( D ) candidate for Governor. Responding to the Las Vegas Review Journal editorial about her being endorsed by the teacher’s union. - Wednesday, February 15, 2006.
"Minority Whip Harry Reid’s job was to basically be that bull in the china shop, he was there to land the hard blows and to take a few. As minority leader I think he has continued that rhetoric. I really believe there is tremendous acrimony between the Senator and the White House and I think that more or less paints a tone of everything that is going on now. "
- John L Smith, LV Review Journal Columnist discussing US Senator Harry Reid’s role as the Minority Whip. - Tuesday, February 14, 2006.
"Oh, probably about eight or nine hundred thousand if I have to. But I don’t think I have to."
- Lorraine T. Hunt, Lieutenant Governor and candidate for Governor, discussing the amount of personal money she is willing to spend on her race for Governor. - Monday, February 13, 2006.
"Four of five gubernatorial candidates have taken a position on TASC. I think that anyone that asks you, you the voter, for the right to lead you politically should tell you what their positions are on big issues of the day. "
- Bob Beers, State Senator, ( R ) Clark District # 6 - Candidate for Governor discussing his opponent Jim Gibbons position on TASC. - Thursday, February 9, 2006.
"Not only did she never write the story but the other thing that is really interesting here is that for months and months while this case was being fought in the courts it was being fought on the grounds that the reason they needed her evidence was this was a violation of the Agents Identity Intelligence act, i.e. the people leaking to her, the people talking to her, who the prosecutor wanted, were committing a crime of outing a CIA agent and in the end, when the indictment came down, that wasn’t even mentioned. It was all about perjury and obstruction of justice and it strikes me that the balance is different, you know the balance may be they are all crimes but it seems to me that outing an agent, the need for that information is far greater than what I would call the typical lying case, which is what this has become."
- George Freeman, Assistant General Counsel – New York Times Company, discussing the Judith Miller / New York Times case. - Wednesday, February 8, 2006.
"I think Jack Carter, at least so far, looks like his campaign is going to be about as effective as his father’s presidency was. "
- Larry Matheis, Executive Director, Nevada State Medical Association, discussing Jack Carter’s campaign for U.S. Senate. - Tuesday, February 7, 2006.
"We had 917 arrests last year with the first charge being methamphetamine. The problem with methamphetamine is it is so addictive. The other problem is the residue created by the cooking process is devastating to the home owners or the rental facilities where these labs may be set up. Often times when these labs are broken down they will be discarded along side the road, so it can be potentially hazardous for children or anyone else approaching them."
- Mike Haley, Washoe County Undersheriff, candidate for Washoe County Sheriff, discussing the growing methamphetamine problem in Washoe County. - Monday, February 6, 2006.
