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"Quinn resides in Chelsea, Manhattan, with wife, Kim Catullo, a lawyer.[27][28] The couple married on May 19, 2012,[29] and spend their summer weekends at a home that they purchased in 2004 in Bradley Beach, New Jersey.[30] Her former partner, Laura Morrison,[31] was chief of staff to former State Senator Thomas Duane"

Air Force One -- behind, yes, barbed wire. What else, in Cattle Country?It's not often a President of the United States visits out here in the sagebrush but Elko, Nevada -- my neck of the sage -- was honored today when President Bush arrived aboard Air Force One for a stirring speech, which he said he was happy to deliver "in a part of the country where the cowboy hats outnumber the ties." "Laura sends her best," the President said. "I wish she were here in Elko with me. We were both raised in a part of the world that's...

November 13, 2005--Posted at 6:45 p.m. CST LITTLE ROCK--Governor Huckabee was in the national spotlight today, named by Time magazine as one of the five best governors in the country. In its issue this week, the news magazine says Huckabee has matured since he took office in 1996 and is a consensus-building conservative, a Republican who occasionally earns praise from liberal Democrats. Others in the magazine's Top Five list are Kenny Guinn of Nevada, Janet Napolitano of Arizona, Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas and Mark Warner of Virginia. The magazine named Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, Ohio Governor Bob Taft and South...

DENVER--Governor Bill Owens, a Republican, has been crisscrossing the country for years promoting the virtues of this state's strict constitutional limits on government spending. He has repeatedly urged other states to adopt restrictions of their own, based on Colorado's Taxpayer Bill of Rights amendment, known as TABOR. But this summer, Owens says, he will traverse his own mountainous state pushing the opposite message. Midway through his second term, Owens is working to persuade Coloradans to suspend the limits he championed and let the state government spend $3 billion more in tax money than TABOR would allow. Owens thus becomes another...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson(202) 863-8614 LAS VEGAS – Victory 2004 announced today the schedule for the “Leadership Matters” tour in which 20 Republican Governors will crisscross the country touting President Bush’s strong and steady leadership. The Governors will meet President Bush in Las Vegas, NV, this Thursday, October 14th to launch the two-day tour. The Governors, traveling in 7 teams, will rally support for the President by highlighting that leadership matters when choosing a President. The tour will stress the President’s steady resolve and clear, consistent vision on today’s critical issues. The Governors’ schedule is as follows. Cities...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.DMV can't ban effort, ruling says CARSON CITY -- Leaders of the campaign to recall Gov. Kenny Guinn said their chances of gathering enough signatures to put the recall before voters were bolstered Thursday by a secretary of state's decision. Secretary of State Dean Heller ruled the Department of Motor Vehicles cannot have a blanket policy preventing the gathering of petitions inside its offices. He also threw out a DMV policy that requires signature gatherers to give advance notice of where and when they intend to carry out their activities. Heller, the...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Petition allies too busy to collect signatures RENO -- The recall effort against Gov. Kenny Guinn is slow going in Northern Nevada, organizers concede. Even some Reno-based political allies of the petition drive said they're too busy to help collect the 128,109 signatures from registered voters required by Nov. 24 to force a recall election. Janine Hansen, a Reno member of the Independent American Party, said she has petitions available for signing in her office, but hasn't organized any Northern Nevada effort. "I've got too many projects going," she said. Tony...

A fringe group of ultra-conservatives upset with Kenny Guinn's approval of the largest tax increase in state history has filed papers to begin recall proceedings against the popular Republican governor. Emboldened by recall efforts in neighboring California, organizers now have 90 days to collect more than 128,000 signatures, or 25 percent of those who cast ballots in the 2002 general election. Chairman of The Committee to Recall Governor Guinn, Tony Dane, admits it's going to be a daunting task to come up with so many signatures, but he says it's possible. In response, Guinn issued a statement saying, "Nevadans expect...

High Tax Republicans Replacing 'Tax and Spend' Dems? Wes Vernon Monday, Dec. 2, 2002 WASHINGTON -- A new tax revolt may be in the works. Only this time, the "bad guys" are Republicans. Taxpayers in several states are complaining the GOP politicians they put in office are acting like Democrats when it comes to spending their hard-earned dollars. Nevada is a case study, a microcosm of the political minefield now facing states from coast to coast. Gambling is no longer Nevada's "silver bullet," Nevada Taxpayers Association President Carole Ann Vilardo tells NewsMax.com. And so, a Governor's Task Force (so named...