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"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
