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Published Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 | 3:28 p.m.
Updated Friday, Sept. 17, 2010 | 4:15 p.m.
Earlier this week, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid opened the door to the possibility of raising taxes if he is elected in November.
But when pressed today during an interview for "To the Point," Reid refused to step through it.
Reid said he would work to pass his own budget, reiterating his position that now is not the time to raise taxes.
“I haven’t changed my stance at all,” he said. “I’m going to sign my bill into law and my bill has no new taxes.”
In an interview Wednesday after a campaign rally with former President Bill Clinton, Reid told reporters it would be accurate to say he might sign a budget that raises taxes, but that he wouldn’t propose any increases himself.
Reid said today he is a “pretty persuasive guy” and he’s confident he can convince lawmakers to pass his budget proposal.
He has proposed balancing a $3 billion shortfall through consolidations, cutting administrators and continuing the furloughs of state workers implemented in 2009. He also said the economy will turn around enough to inject an additional $600 million into state coffers than is currently projected.
During the interview, Reid also slammed his Republican rival Brian Sandoval, saying that lobbyists were able to “walk into a federal courthouse in Reno” and come out with their candidate.
Sandoval was recruited to run for governor, in part, by two of the state’s most powerful lobbyists.
The full interview airs at 6:30 p.m. Saturday on News 4 in Reno.
I don't think Nevada can afford Reid, any Reid...
Tax and spend just like his soon to be ex-senator dad.
Privatize Firefighters, that will balance the budget.
Yeah, privatize the police - that will balance the budget.
or we could end the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan and use the money to help States like Nevada and Michigan climb out of the ditch
curtis4governor.com
Hey, LV Sun, your liberal bias is showing again! LOL! I just wanted to beat the Repetitive Right to the punch.
"He (Rory) has proposed balancing a $3 billion shortfall through consolidations, cutting administrators and continuing the furloughs of state workers implemented in 2009. He also said the economy will turn around enough to inject an additional $600 million into state coffers than is currently projected."
The savings associated with the consolidations are unrealistic--the consolidation that would yield savings in excess of the combined budgets of the agencies consolidated.
The $600 million attributed to economic turnaround is a fantasy. No projections show any substantial improvement for a couple of years at least. Unemployment is high, spending is low.
Rory doesn't add up.
Silly proposition since he'll never be in a position to make such a decision....
Nevada needs another Gov Chis Christie.
Does Rory Reid stand for anything except "I'll say anything to get elected?" Advertisements with hip-hop music, claiming Sandoval was "recruited by lobbyists," and that Sandoval is "Jim Gibbons in a nicer suit." A desperate twit of a powerful, but washed up, Senator who believes he is anointed to be governor. I played soccer with Rory's gimpy brother, Leif, and Leif said Rory would be governor. This was 1986.
Roy Reid is a joke; a new CNN/Time poll showed that Sandoval now has a 27 point lead on him!
Roy is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't.
If History is any indicator, he'll have to raise taxes to pay for all of his wasteful spending.
Spending other People's money and putting them into bigger debt seems to be a Reid family tradition.
@ Steve7952,
Right on! We need a Governor with the Kahonas to stand up to the Service Employee Unions and the Dems in the state legislature and say enough is enough with their wasteful spending.
Just would like to know: What is/are Sandoval's specific plan(s) to balance the budget, bring in new industries, and overall increase revenues in this state? I'm not saying he doesn't have a plan (or plans); I'm just not seeing it explained clearly in my news outlets.
The public employee unions have ruined this state, and many others. Nevada best bet would be to file bankruptcy, and start over with non union employees. States are having these problems, thanks mainly to Democrats during the Kennedy Johnson era who made it legal for unions in the public sector. Until this problem is fixed, these budget issues will not go away, unless you tax the masses through the nose.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. One Reid has done enough damage to our home. We have to get rid of that one and not elect another.
Why is Sandoval in hiding?
What is Sandoval hiding?
Why is Sandoval scared of Rory Reid?
SAVE NEVADA,
VOTE RORY REID.
Brian Sandoval, come out, come out, where ever
you are.
Hey teamster,
Your guy seems to be losing more support, why is that?
Is it because he's a Reid and willing to raise taxes?
Or is it because anything that comes out of his month is a turn-off?
Or is it both?
teamster-obviously never met a liberal he didn't like.
Rory will lose by a landslide and will join his brother in the "honorable" profession on being a lobbyist in DC.
Harry will lose and move to North Korea where he'll fit right in and replace the ailing Kim Jong Il.
Harry will win by a landslide and Rory will
win by a hair.
Greedy, lying republicans will lose again.
Rory REID will raise taxes and his whole family is in the lobbyist business from D.C. to C.C. Look at the Union contracts under his term at the county and tell me he is going to cut. Enough said.
Teamster, Rory Reid talks about saving the state, yet he has done more to damage the state through FAT union contracts then anyone in Nevada s history. Whats odd is that firefighters do not support him. I for one cant wait to Brian is in and guts these unions starting with the firefighters union.
I will vote for both of them, and I will encourage everyone I know to do the same. Rory Reid is a good man with an understanding of the state's financial crisis and what is at stake here regarding further cuts to an already bare bones educational system, etc. He is intelligent and knows that taxes may need to be raised when he becomes governor, but he will be fair in doing so. Look how far we have fallen under Gibbons, Sandoval offers more of the same for everyone (except the wealthy). Vote for Reid!!
cpo.......
Sandoval is another greedy, anti-union
republican. Sandoval only supports rich, greedy
republicans and their kids, that's why he
supports private schools for rich kids.
Rory Reid's education plan covers all kids.
You greedy, anti-union republicans have done
enough damage to our state and country.
SAVE NEVADA AND OUR COUNTRY,
VOTE HARRY AND RORY REID.
Well, let's see... Rory says what his plans are, and gets slammed, but it really doesn't matter if he has a viable plan or not, no matter what he says, he has to fight "sins of the father" syndrome. Sandovol says nothing, and leads just because he's not a Reid. Lobbyists pick the pretty poster boy with all the substance of a plywood campaign poster. The campaign poster itself could beat a Reid in this state,... why don't the Sandoval supporters get him to disclose his plans and defend them? Because evidently the voters of NV are lazy enough not to care.
We can't afford the Reids any longer!
WE ARE BROKE file bankruptcy FIRE ALL EMPLOYEES, CANCELL ALL CONTRACTS, start over, paying only private sector compensation AND NOT A DIME MORE
Your commissioners like tom collins who loves to take money from poor citizens who make 20K and give it to cops, ff, SEIU, make them millionaires in retirement
AREN'T YOU PROUD? And so happy as tom and friends whiz the warm water from heaven on you.
Nevada pays 1 billion dollars a year over the private sector to public union employees. STOP IT
These greedy, anti-union low lifes, like gbigs,
don't care about American workers unless they
are making minimum wages.
Greedy republicans ruined our economy by sending
all of our jobs to COMMUNIST CHINA.
REPUBLICANS SUPPORT COMMUNIST CHINA OVER
AMERICA.
THROW EVERYONE OF THESE GREEDY, LYING,
REPUBLICAN THIEVES AND CROOKS OUT IN NONEMBER.
@gbigs
Why don't you tell us which unions FDR gave raises to...
@ mistermoose
Great idea ! Then you can go back to the sweat shops : work for little pay, 12 hours a day,no benefits,no holidays.
All those things the unions fought for so a "scab" like you can have a comfortable life.
Way to go Harry. Oops, I mean Rory.