Everybody in the city knew from 1996 on that there were extensive plans for the redevelopment of Broadway and the oceanfront, ... The argument that people there didn't know until two or four or five years later is, to my mind, ridiculous.

They shouldn't be involved in the process and they're not.

The guys made a huge improvement. Last year, I told them they were like eighth-graders wrestling at the varsity level. I'm proud of them for getting where they are.

All we do is change our goal now. It was to win region; now it's going to be to get some individuals through the region meet and maybe Lower State.

MTOTSA, their idea of compromise is you walk away and deal with whatever legal problems you have from breeching the contract,

What we see is a plan that has been working, ... It is turning the town around. People returned to the Long Branch beachfront in significant numbers this year for the first time in 30 or 40 years. We needed to get investment in the infrastructure of the area the city didn't have the money to pay for. Without a redevelopment zone the size we ended up declaring, it wasn't going to happen.