I'd be committed to a balanced budget. I'd like to see exactly what money's being spent on, different line items in the budget.

There's a lot of potential here in Flint Township and I'd like to have the opportunity to take us forward.

Those fees, those taxes, those licenses -- for a small business owner I think it's a burden to put on their backs.

If you don't take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given...where are you going to live?

My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.