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"We are collecting too much money. It belongs to the public and I would think that most of my colleagues would agree that we don’t need to collect it and then turn it around and send it back to them in a check. That doesn’t make sense. We just don’t need to collect it in the first place. I think we ought to roll back any tax that we increased…you just have to be fair. "
- State Senator Randolph Townsend (R) Washoe 4, discussing the $300 million tax rebate and rolling back taxes because our state is collecting too much money. - Thursday, November 10, 2005.
"It is a cliché. It is not the crime; it is the cover up that always ends up being the biting issue. "
- Clay Jenkinson, Presidential Historian & Jefferson Scholar, discussing the controversies Bush and past presidents have had and the current indictment of Scooter Libby. - Wednesday, November 9, 2005.
"She doesn’t have to do anything. She is choosing to do that (resign) because my wife and I have been married for 21 years. We have a true partnership and an incredible relationship, and my wife’s position is the same as my position which is we as a family need to think about what our family can do for the state of Nevada…I am not having my wife do anything, my wife is more then well equipped to make her own decisions."
- New Attorney General for the State of Nevada George Chanos discussing his wife’s resignation as Chief Deputy Attorney General in charge of Consumer Affairs. - Tuesday, November 8, 2005.
"By having this energy super highway, which is the best way to think of a DC Transmission line, you have created economies of scale. We can develop a whole lot of wind projects feeding into the line. So we think it actually makes wind power more economically viable to have it attached to a project like this."
- Scott Farris of Northern Lights, discussing a plan to build DC Transmission lines through the eastern part of Nevada. This project will use several different types of energy sources. - Monday, November 7, 2005.
"I am a little disappointed in some of the casino operators they really withhold the effort. With all of the hard work you would think that the private sector would step up and take advantage of it. "
- Las Vegas Mayor, Oscar Goodman, discussing the developments in the downtown Las Vegas area. - Thursday, November 3, 2005.
"You know we have a beautiful highway landscaping redevelopment in our downtown. We have desert tortoises and beautiful paintings of flora and fauna. These punks come along and deface it. I’m saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb. "
- Oscar Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas, discussing how he would solve the problem of “taggers” defacing freeways with graffiti. - Wednesday, November 2, 2005.
