From the Nevada Appeal:

Gov. Jim Gibbons and Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, both took their shots in speeches Thursday night as the governor officially called the 24th special session of the Legislature.

Gibbons renewed his unyielding opposition to any tax or fee increases.

“I will veto anything coming out of the Legislature that calls for a tax increase to fix our problem,” he said in a 15 minute television address.

That said, he put the burden on lawmakers to find a way to take another $275 million out of the current two-year budget, directing lawmakers to “consider all reasonable options they deem necessary to address this shortfall.”

Buckley, saying it’s hard to respond to any Gibbons recommendations when she had just heard them, levied sharp criticism of how the governor has handled the budget crisis.

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