Nevada Newsmakers

Host: Sam Shad
Co-Host: Marlene Lockard, Capital Strategies

Guests:
Danny Thompson, AFL-CIO
Pundits:
Dick Gammick, Washoe County District Attorney
Garrett Gordon, Lewis and Roca LLP
Amy Curtis-Weber, Executive Director, Washoe County Democratic Party


"They pay about 50% of the State budget, in some form, from gaming; slot tax, gaming tax, property tax, sales tax. Almost half the money comes from them. The problem with what they’re trying to do is if you are reliant, right now, on 50% of your entire budget from one source and now you’re going to do something that will make that 70% and they have a bad day like 911??? "

- Danny Thompson, Secretary-Treasurer Nevada State AFL-CIO, on why he doesn’t support the teacher’s initiative petition to raise the gaming tax by 3%.