GOP Reacts To Reid Budget Plan
From KOLOtv.com: Trailing in the polls by double digits against a candidate that’s been keeping a low profile, the Rory Reid campaign hopes the budget document he released Thursday will at least start the debate, putting some life in what has been a very quiet contest. It may or may not have accomplished that, but [...]
Rory Reid Releases Nevada Budget Plan
From the Reno Gazette-Journal: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid presented a plan to bridge Nevada’s $3 billion projected shortfall without raising taxes Thursday, although the much anticipated $2.48 billion plan falls about $500 million short of the deficit. Reid said that the plan fails short because he believes that the state’s economy will turn around [...]
Rory Reid Calls For Reform And Consolidation To Balance State Budget
From the Nevada News Bureau: (Sean Whaley) CARSON CITY – Democrat gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid told the Nevada News Bureau yesterday there are other options for moving the state out of its current budget crisis besides increasing taxes and cutting programs. In an interview at a local coffee shop, Reid pulled out two pieces of [...]
Sandoval Sticks To Script: Cuts Will Balance Budget
From the Reno Gazette-Journal: (Ray Hagar) Despite facing a potential state budget deficit of as much as $3 billion next year, Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval stayed on message Saturday, saying he would not support raising taxes if elected. Sandoval spoke at the opening of the Republican Reno Victory Office, which will help coordinate GOP [...]
Rory Reid, Brian Sandoval Agree: Don’t Raise Taxes In 2011
From Nevada News and Views: (Victor Joecks/Nevada Policy Research Institute) – Bookmark this interview. We may need to reference it during the next legislative session. Over the weekend, the Las Vegas Sun posed 10 questions to gubernatorial candidates Rory Reid and Brian Sandoval. The second question concerned taxes, and both candidates said that they wouldn’t [...]
Sandoval Continues Promise Not To Raise Taxes In Campaign
From the Reno Gazette-Journal: Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval stuck to his assertion that he would not favor raising taxes if elected, despite a looming state budget shortfall that could balloon to more than $3 billion. Sandoval, of Reno, made his comments Tuesday during a taping of the “Nevada Newsmakers” television program. “The focus has [...]
Muth: Legislature’s Kick-the-Can Budgeting Got Us Into This Mess
From Nevada News and Views: (Chuck Muth) – Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval has said no-new-taxes, even though he hasn’t signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. And Democrat gubernatorial candidate Rory REID has said no-new-taxes, even though he hasn’t signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Yet Carson City’s lobbying corps is threatening legislative candidates, telling them they’ll [...]
Governor Gibbons Cites Progress In Implementing SAGE Commission Recommendations But Many Proposals Still Await Action
From the Nevada News Bureau: CARSON CITY – Gov. Jim Gibbons is touting his successes in implementing recommendations from his SAGE Commission on ways to improve efficiencies and save money in state government, but many of the proposals remain in progress or will require action by the 2011 Legislature. In a press release issued first [...]
Nevada Governor Gibbons Says No To Federal Insurance Plan
From KXNT.com: Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons says the state will opt out of administering a new high risk insurance pool as required by the federal health care reform law. In a letter sent today to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Gibbons noted that the $61 million provided by the federal government to implement [...]
Gibbons, Lowden Lead Tea Party Rally
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: CARSON CITY Led by Gov. Jim Gibbons and U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden, dozens of mainly Republican politicians turned out Thursday at a Tea Party rally attended by about 600 people to plug their candidacies and express opposition to higher taxes and national health care. “Your constitution has been [...]
Sebelius: Correction, Sandoval DID Sue To Raise Taxes!
From SlashPolitics: After that new anti-Brian Sandoval ad — produced by the Committee to Protect Nevada Jobs — came out on Monday, I wrote an analysis of the piece that concluded parts of it were untrue. Specifically, I took issue with a claim in the ad that said Sandoval used the courts to raise taxes. [...]
Nevada Gov. Gibbons Will Join Suit Against Health Reform, Announces Private Council
MyNews4.com reports: Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons announced Tuesday that he has appointed principals from the Nevada law firm Hutchison & Steffen to assist in a lawsuit against the federal health care legislation passed recently. Gibbons signed an executive order authorizing Mark Hutchison from the Las Vegas law firm to move foward in joining the suit [...]
