Quote of the Day

“Today we are in a disaster because we didn’t do what Kenny Guinn had spent months researching and tried to pass. I remember he’d go into meetings with his clipboard saying ‘We’re going to have huge deficits if we don’t pass this’ and today we have a $2.5 billion deficit.” — Jan Jones, senior vice president of Harrah’s Entertainment, on the late Gov. Guinn and his futile attempt to pass a gross-receipts tax. Jones ran against Guinn in the 1998 gubernatorial race. (Guinn won.)