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 [...]
Jim Clark: Dissecting Rory Reid’s Education Plan
From the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza: Is the Democratic Party changing its stance on education? Previous Bonanza articles described former Washoe County Schools Superintendent Paul Dugan praising Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Rory Reid for his proposal to decentralize Nevada schools and transfer budgeting as well as hiring/firing authority to school principals. Reid’s education plan, called “Leading [...]
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 [...]
Teachers Back Rory Reid Despite Difference Over Higher Taxes
From the Las Vegas Sun: (Anjeanette Damon) Does the teachers union think it might eventually get a tax increase out of Democrat Rory Reid? One of the gubernatorial candidate’s biggest backers is the Nevada State Education Association, which represents 29,000 teachers and other education workers throughout the state. The group’s top objective: more funding for [...]
Republican Candidate Brian Sandoval Promises No Tax Increases
From 8NewsNow.com: LAS VEGAS — After very little sleep, gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval returned to the campaign trail one day after the Primary Election. Sandoval is the frontrunner going into the General Election. In person, Sandoval is everything you hear he is. He is charismatic, articulate and conservative. The former federal judge insists there is [...]
Rory Reid: Budget Ideas Do Not Include Higher Taxes
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Group Proposing Nevada Tax, Government Changes
Democrats offer Nevada a gruesome future: CARSON CITY, Nev. — A study group appointed by majority Democrats in the Nevada Legislature is proposing sweeping changes to raise taxes and reshape state government to improve the quality of life in the state over the next 20 years. A preliminary report due for discussion Friday by the [...]
Video: Brian Sandoval – Politicians
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Governor Gibbons Tells Builders No Regrets Over No New Taxes
From the Nevada Appeal: Gov. Jim Gibbons told members of the Builders Association of Western Nevada on Tuesday that he has no regrets about his no-new-taxes stance even if its unpopular. “It may not be popular to say no new taxes, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to watch more people get laid off, [...]
