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TODAY’S NN&V HEADLINES
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Alden’s Non-Armageddon Way to Cut Higher Ed Budget (Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – Those charged with overseeing Nevada’s system of higher education heard several scenarios today if the current state budget crisis requires cuts of 22 percent, from closing campuses to huge student fee increases to massive layoffs.
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Angle chalks up wins in three combined straw polls (Angle for Senate campaign) – Sharron Angle (R-NV), a former state legislator who leads Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) in the latest polls conducted by Mason-Dixon and Rasmussen, continued strong showings in GOP straw polling being conducted throughout the state by sweeping 100% of the vote in Storey County.
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Harry is Bad.but Will GOP Nominee be Any Better? (Bill Parson) – Nevadans who have been active in the TEA Party, Town Hall and Liberty movements recognize that our great nation remains at risk from many sources. One of these risks is represented by the heated debates during the last ten months concerning the Federal Government’s involvement in Health Care.
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In 2010, We’re Here to Take Out the Trash (Not Become Trash, Ourselves) (Mark Noonan) – Danny Tarkanian has done a bad thing, in my view. The other day, I received a “push poll” from his campaign. For a political junkie like me, it was an interesting thing – I’ve never been “push polled” before.
Click here to read these stories at the Nevada News & Views site!
SURVEY SAYS!
Does President Barack Obama owe Las Vegas a personal and public apology when he visits the city in two weeks?
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TARK TALES
Putting the Muck in Winnemucca
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian rolled his Trash Talk Express into the rural town of Winnemucca last Saturday and proceeded to falsely slime fellow GOP candidate Sue Lowden once again over the “jobs tax.”
According to the Silver Pinion Journal on Saturday:
Tarkanian argued strongly for less regulations and taxes so businesses could do more to put people back to work. As an example, he pointed out legislation that restructured the tax code and increased a tax paid by large corporations – primarily casinos – to $100 per employee. Tarkanian’s GOP opponent, Sue Lowden, supported the legislation.
“In 1993 the legislature voted to tax jobs – literally,” he said. “With my opponent’s vote, they passed a $100 per head per year tax that only applied if an employer hired someone. I strongly disagree that we should create disincentives to hire people.”
Actually, it was the 1991 Legislature which approved and initiated the jobs tax, not the 1993 Legislature.
And Sue Lowden wasn’t in the 1991 Legislature. She wasn’t elected to the state Senate until 1992.
Danny, on the other hand, still hasn’t been elected to anything.
Ever.
TUBE TIPS
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Republican U.S. Senate candidates Sharron Angle, John Chachas and The Perpetual Candidate go Face to Face with Jon Ralston tonight. The program airs at 4:00 pm Monday through Friday on KVBC Channel 3 in Las Vegas, as well as NBC affiliates in Reno and Elko. http://www.lasvegassun.com/videos/face-face/
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Sam Shad’s guests today on the Nevada Newsmakers program will be Danny Thompson, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO. The program airs on KRNV-TV Channel 4 at 12:30 pm in Reno and on Cox Cable Channel 123 at 4:30 pm and 11:35 pm in Las Vegas. http://www.nevadanewsmakers.com/
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
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“When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you’re trying to save for college.” – President Barack Obama once again discouraging Nevada tourism at a town hall meeting on Tuesday in New Hampshire
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“The President is either out of touch, has a bias against Las Vegas, or both. . . . The government asking ‘the People’ to tighten our belts rings hollow, as it spends us into unfathomable debt.” – Republican congressional candidate Craig Lake
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“I just spoke to the White House and told them that while the President is correct that people saving for college need to be fiscally responsible, the President needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn’t be spending their money.” – Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada)
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“I am stunned that this President is so thoughtless and so heartless when he says these things. Doesn’t President Obama know that thousands of families in Las Vegas are suffering because of his failed economic policies? . . . In this instance, President Obama could have said Atlantic City, or any of a number of American cities that have casinos, instead he again singled out Las Vegas.” – Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons
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“There is no need for the President to lecture Americans on how they spend their own money, especially on the same week he introduces the most fiscally irresponsible budget in our nation’s history. Further, it is inappropriate to link college savings with people freely choosing to enjoy a vacation or plan a business convention to Las Vegas.” – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden
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“This is not the first time the President has found Las Vegas to be a convenient political punch-line. At the same time the President tells people not to come to Las Vegas, he has no problems coming to our state to raise money. . . . Discouraging people from coming to our state to make a political point adds insult to injury.” – Rep. Dean Heller (R-Nevada)
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“I wasn’t saying anything negative about Las Vegas. I was making the simple point that families use vacation dollars, not college tuition money, to have fun.” – President Barack Obama responding to all the criticism for he “don’t blow cash” remark in a letter to fellow Democrat Harry Reid late in the day yesterday
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