I'm amenable to making whatever changes we need to make it a stronger bill because I believe this needs to stop.

This particular neighborhood is actually dying. We keep hearing 'public purpose' while in this case private investment has been a public purpose.

She had to represent her constituents.... I think all these commissioners do the same thing.

It is simply unthinkable that someone would beat another human being for sport. We need to send a message to these abhorrent criminals that being homeless does not make you target practice.

It just takes one cargo container with one weapon of mass destruction to destroy a whole city. We're a coastal state, so we could see a lot of damage. It's something that's always bothered me.

What we're trying to accomplish is to stop individuals from perpetrating crimes of assault, killings, murder against those who are the least of us. We have a growing epidemic of people killing people just for fun, and that's not acceptable.