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Editorial: Just what exactly will pop his cork?

Monday, July 8, 2002 | 8:49 a.m.

Today's pop quiz on current events, editorial page readers, involves answering what policy dispute prompted Gov. Kenny Guinn to say the following to a reporter from the Associated Press: "Sure, I'm disappointed. But I still use the old theory of Ronald Reagan -- that when somebody agrees with you 80 percent of the time, they are your friend, not your enemy. In this case, I just happen to disagree with him."

Who was the individual and what was the policy that Guinn referred to?

A. Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins and the medical malpractice crisis.

B. President Bush and the Yucca Mountain project.

C. Health and Human Services' Secretary Tommy Thompson and new Medicare rules.

If you picked A or C, you're wrong. Guinn actually directed those nice words at President Bush, a fellow Republican, who wants to bury 77,000 tons of nuclear waste in Nevada. We know Guinn prefers accommodation to confrontation, but it is dumbfounding that he would be so understanding about someone who wants to bury man's deadliest waste in his state. If that's friendship to Guinn, we'd hate to see what qualifies as being an enemy to the governor.

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