Nevada Newsmakers

Host: Sam Shad
Co-Host: Paul Enos, Nevada Motor Transport Association, Inc.

Guests:
Former Chiefs of Staff to Governors: Mike Hillerby - Kenny Guinn during the years:2003-2006
Marlene Lockard - Richard Bryan during the years:1983-89 Also, Nevada’s first female Chief of Staff
Scott Craigie - Bob Miller January 1st, 1989 - August, 1993
Pundits:
Al Lachner, President of Nevada Comstock Communications
Martha Gould, political activist
Bill Brainard, Community Activist


"The problem is what happens to Medicaid, what happens in education and prisons, particularly. The numbers you are talking about now are 34% across the board. When 93% of the budget is Health and Human Services, Education and Public Safety and you’re saying most of those things are going to be off the table. You can’t come up with the kind of numbers that are out there and the last thing, I think, anybody wants is a federal judge running the prison system and K12 education system. "

- Mike Hillerby, Former Chief of Staff to Governor Guinn discussing the impending State budget and how Governor Gibbons can cut his way to balance that budget.