For the most part, we are still a service economy. But I see a lot of new businesses with a need for higher skills moving into the market, and I think that will naturally spill over into other applications and create more need for skilled workers.

This service has created hundreds of new jobs and injected millions of dollars into our local economy.

Our unions do a large amount of organizing in parts of the economy that historically and recently are places where people of color and immigrant workers have found jobs. Some of them are entry-level jobs. Throughout history immigrants have found work as janitors, and our unions have helped them raise families, send their kids to college, and that's been the American dream.

I was a banquet waiter at the Beverly Hilton hotel. You learn a lot when you're in the service industry-the jerks of the world really come to the fore. It's a valuable learning experience to be in the position where you're of service to someone who sometimes doesn't even know you're there.

Anderson and McDermott were two names I was told are high on the list.

I'd say it's iffy for a 2.