Shelley Berkley: “I am going to join my colleague from Nevada in praising Assemblyman Joe Dini. This is an extraordinary man. We know him…”

“I am going to join my colleague from Nevada in praising Assemblyman Joe Dini. This is an extraordinary man. We know him very, very well. I am very proud to stand here and speak on his behalf. Assemblyman Dini, as we have heard, was born in Yerington, Nevada, in 1929. He went through school in Yerington. He went to the University of Nevada in Reno. He is truly a homegrown and cherished possession of the State of Nevada. He has served his constituents in Yerington very well. He has served the people of the great State of Nevada very well. I, too, have a number of remembrances of Joe Dini, having also served in the Nevada State Legislature with him, but I would like to harken back to the time that I was a freshman. Mr. Dini had already been speaker of the Nevada State Assembly, and he was going to become speaker again. But during my first term as a young assemblywoman in Nevada in the early 1980s, he did not speak to me very much during the session. Every time I saw him, I was a bit in awe, and I used to step back, and I thought perhaps the less interaction we had, the better.”