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"I think Lorraine Hunt will surprise a lot of people. The media is not giving her too much credit at this point, but look at her history…In Clark County she is very popular with both Republicans and Democrats. She ran last time against (Erin Kenny)
a very popular person with a lot of money, and had no trouble before this period of time, and had endorsements that you wouldn’t believe, two full pages in the newspaper, and a million eight compared to Lorraine’s six or seven hundred thousand dollars and she (Lorraine) beat her by ten points… So, you just can’t leave somebody like that out, she is going to be very tough."
- Governor Kenny Guinn discussing Lieutenant Governor Lorraine Hunt’s campaign for the 2006 Governor’s race. - Thursday, February 2, 2006.
"It caught me completely off guard, I have disagreed with a lot of people over my ten years in politics, (with) Democrats and Republicans, but we disagreed on the issues not personal attacks. I was really, quite frankly, taken aback. I think it may have just been because he was taking so much heat from seniors and others who needed the program, that since he really didn’t have any defense he just started personal attacks, that is all I could figure out. "
- Barbara Buckley, Assembly Majority Leader (D) Clark District 8, discussing attacks from Nevada Attorney General George Chanos. - Wednesday, February 1, 2006.
"The Culinary situation is fascinating, for 30 years our team members have chosen not to become signatories to the Culinary Union, they prefer to work just directly with our management team and not have a third party represent them and it has signified the strength of our relationships with our team members is that for the second year in a row we were named one of the 100 best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine and that in large part is determined by employee interviews that are conducted by Fortune Magazine. "
- Lesley Pittman, VP of Corporate & Government Relations for Station Casinos, discussing the challenges Station Casinos Inc. has faced from the opposition of the Culinary Union. - Tuesday, January 31, 2006.
"The most phenomenal tug of war ensued which we sort of stayed out of because it was pretty funny, at the end, not particularly the Assembly Democrats but all the Democrats said we want a certain amount of that carved out for all day kindergarten and they end up getting 22 million dollars. So it was ironic that two years before the Governor proposed 26 million, the legislature didn’t want to deal with that, two years later it comes back and got 22 million.” "
- Mike Hillerby, Chief of Staff for Governor Guinn, discussing the funding challenge for saving all day kindergarten. - Monday, January 30, 2006.
"You don’t do a tax bill that is perfect, that is impossible, and we always end up going back the following session to make corrections. You are not going to be able to do that with this constitutional amendment. "
- Carole Vilardo, President. Nevada Taxpayers Association, discussing the new 2006 Property Tax Restraint Initiative. - Thursday, January 19, 2006.
"My approach now is the same approach that I have always had and that is to go out and meet the folks and see what is on their mind, keep in touch with the people who are most consequential to the life of the campus, the faculty, the staff, the students and their various representative bodies. "
- Joe Crowley, Interim President of UNR, discussing the morale issues at UNR and how he will handle morale problems. - Wednesday, January 18, 2006.
"It is a witch hunt and there are no witches to be found."
- Bob Cashell, Reno Mayor, discussing the TMWA Audit results. - Tuesday, January 17, 2006.
"They are going to have to make some tough decision, and I don’t know if the legislature has the intestinal fortitude to do it. They are going to have to go in and say that, ‘effective today, anyone that is in the system we will keep in the system, tomorrow we start a 401K system for all new people coming in.’ "
- George Harris, discussing the public employees’ retirement system retirement plans and how they will have to be limited in the future. - Monday, January 16, 2006.
"For a man that took $11,000 from now discredited Congressman Cunningham who had to resign in disgrace from the United States Congress and took tens of thousands of dollars from former Majority Leader Tom Delay, for Mr. Porter to attack me, I think that is the height of nerve and I think he needs to clean up his own backyard before he starts poking into mine. "
- Congresswoman Shelley Berkley, ( D ) Nevada, discussing Congressman Jon Porter’s attack on her and Senator Reid in regards to the Jack Abramoff money scandal. - Thursday, January 12, 2006.
"Many of these Senators, this is the last time they are going to get on National television until their obituaries are done.
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- Larry Matheis, Executive Director, Nevada State Medical Association, discussing the Samuel Alito hearings for the Supreme Court nominee. - Wednesday, January 11, 2006.
"Well actually the question really isn’t about the actual dollars, the question is the actual hypocrisy. We need to make sure that Washington, when they address this issue of abuses of powers, we look at both sides of the aisle and I can appreciate Senator Reid, he is a friend of mine, and I know he is trying to do the right thing, but the funds he is keeping are moneys from the Indian tribes that literally were taken illegally, at least the way they were presented to members of congress, as a form of taking care of the tribes. "
- Jon Porter ( R ) Congressman 3rd Congressional District, discussing his opinion on Senator Reid and the Abramoff money scandal. - Tuesday, January 10, 2006.
"I have heard both sides of the issue and actually I’m not in favor of taking private property for private use. Eminent Domain and condemnation procedures should be used when property is taken for public use, but I have a lot of problems with taking private property for private use. It is not fair to the owners of the land."
- Michael Cherry, District Judge -Candidate for the Supreme Court of Nevada, discussing his feelings on Eminent Domain. - Monday, January 9, 2006.
"We are considering litigation both with regard to the child protective services system, which involves children like Adacelli Snyder, and also in terms of the foster care system and its protection and care of children who were taken away from their families and that includes children like Jushai Spurgeon who has all but been forgotten now, but a three month old child who was scalded to death while in protective custody for Clark County."
- Bill Grimm, Attorney with National Center for Youth Law, discussing Clark County problems regarding child protective services. - Thursday, January 5, 2006.
"I would like to repeal the state part of the gas tax, I don’t think most Nevadans know this, but we pay the second highest gas tax of any state in the nation. I think Sharron Angle and Don Gustavson were right, I don’t think all those (tax) increases from 2003 were necessary and that is shown in our eight hundred million dollar surplus right now."
- Richard Disney, Candidate for Assembly District 26, discussing some of the laws he would like to repeal if elected. - Wednesday, January 4, 2006.
"This is 2006 not 1956 and there is a whole transition of time that has gone on where woman are expected today to go out and achieve their goals and I want to support my wife in everything she wants to do. I want to make sure that I am there to make sure that her goals that she has, that she can achieve, without any arbitrary interference or obstacles."
- Congressman Jim Gibbons, Candidate for Governor, discussing the controversy over his wife possibly serving as First Lady of Nevada and a Congresswoman at the same time. - Tuesday, January 3, 2006.
"We ended up behind the eight ball trying to get a hold of some of the legislators because we didn’t expect to present this at the last legislature. So, we wrote emails, we sent letters to each one of the legislators and told them about the state park, but it was just strictly a political backlash that we ran into, we didn’t even get to present our facts, didn’t get to talk to a lot of the people before we were shut down by a powerful southern legislator. "
- Andrea Robb-Bradick, discussing how the Assembly Democrats shut down a bill to establish a state park in Esmeralda County at Monte Cristo because they were retaliating against the Republican Legislator from the area that voted against the tax package. - Monday, January 2, 2006.
