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"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.
"Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins was the personality of the year. And not because of what he accomplished but because of what he proved wasn't going to happen. He proved that the paradigm that has gotten the last two or three Governors elected in Nevada wasn't going to work this time.where you go with the anointment process, or you go and suck up all the money and the political talent early in a small state and make it impossible for someone else to run, and he broke that this time because he dropped out of the race and is not running, he was supposed to be the anointed one."
- Anjeanette Damon, Political Reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal,discussing who is on the top of her list for top political personalityof 2005. - Thursday, December 29, 2005.
"The reason they (NCAA) kept coming after me, this is what people don't understand, was because they never got me. The NCAA when they go after a coach, usually that coach is fired immediately. The only two coaches that they went after that they didn't get was me and Dale Brown.The only reason I was able to survive them was UNLV went and had the Attorney General of the State of Nevada investigate their allegations, and they were all
false.
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- Jerry Tarkanian discussing the 25 year NCAA investigation he documents in his new book "Runnin' Rebel."
- Wednesday, December 28, 2005.
"I think Oscar Goodman is going to run for United States Senator against John Ensign."
- Earlene Forsythe discussing her political predictions for 2006.
- Tuesday, December 27, 2005.
"I think that the issue is that Mrs. Gibbons is looking to run for a political office and that should never be overshadowed by her supposed 'duty' as a First Lady, because we can elect a Governor who is not even married and we would not appoint a First Lady for him, so I don't see why just being married to him should make her automatically default to that obligation.
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- Melanie Scheible, Reno High School Student, discussing the remarks First Lady Dema Guinn made in regards to Dawn Gibbons running for Congress if her husband wins his bid for Governor.
- Monday, December 26, 2005.
"By Nevada law, compensation is a subject of mandatory bargaining. So, it is not an automatic pass through that we would receive the 2 and 4 (percent raise) that was approved by the legislature so that is now at the bargaining table along with other issues that we have been working on with the school district."
- Lynn Warne, president of the Washoe Education Association, discussing the raises for teachers that were approved in the last session have not been implemented yet. - Thursday, December 15, 2005.
"I am a Republican and I think my time in the legislature proved that I am a fiscal conservative, so I am for spending limitations, absolutely, just not that one. I guess I am always concerned when somebody takes on political fad versus political fashion, whether it is 2/3rds majority or it is term limits or any other little things that sweep down the pipe."
- Pete Ernaut, Partner and President R&R Partners Public Affairs, discussing the TASC initiative. - Wednesday, December 14, 2005.
"Right now the only thing that I hear from the Democrats is ‘we are against what the Republicans are for.’ and that might make great news, it might make spirited and loyal opposition, but it doesn’t put you in the majority and it doesn’t win you the White House. "
- Pete Ernaut, Partner and President R&R Partners Public Affairs, discussing campaign strategies. - Tuesday, December 13, 2005.
"It was our idea to change it into a golf course. It was a crime infested area where there was a lot of drug dealing. According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department it was the highest crime area in Las Vegas. We approached the city with the idea of doing a public private partnership converting it from a park that was full of vagrants and drug dealers to a golf course. They liked the idea and they put out a request for proposal which we submitted a bid, and we were the only people that submitted a bid and we were given the opportunity to develop it. "
- Bill Walters, CEO Walters Group, discussing the 1995 development efforts of Nature Park in Las Vegas. - Monday, December 12, 2005.
"Immigration is a good thing, or we wouldn’t even have a country, but we are going to have to start doing it legally and enforcing it.
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- Mary Lau, of the Retail Association of Nevada, discussing the issue of illegal immigration.
- Thursday, December 8, 2005.
"Mrs. Derby is a very nice lady but she has about as much of a chance of winning this race as she does the Kentucky Derby. In my view I think this is a race that will be won or lost on the Republican side.
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- Alfredo Alonso, of Lionel, Sawyer and Collins, discussing Democrat Jill Derby running in the second congressional district. - Wednesday, December 7, 2005.
"I think that everybody knows where the population of the state is, but everybody also knows where the resources are in terms of where your decision makers are and where the head of state government is. I don’t think there is much likelihood that anybody is going to undertake the fiscal issue of trying to move the state capital 450 miles south.
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- State Senator Mark Amodei, discussing the possibility of the state capital moving to Southern Nevada - Tuesday, December 6, 2005.
"We roll back taxes now, we are going to be behind in all of those categories you just raised. We are going to be at the bottom of the damn barrel in education, in social issues, and then watch the businesses come here. They will not come here if we cannot provide a decent educated worker, a skilled worker, to supply that business.
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- Marybel Batjer, Harrah’s Communications, discussing rolling back taxes in the next legislative session. - Monday, December 5, 2005.
