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"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.
"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.
