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"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.
"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.
