I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.

These reforms propose to create competitive elections. Under the current system, the party in power draws its district to create lopsided and safe seats for candidates. Our reforms take the politics out of it and create competition in the elections process. We believe if politicians have to work to earn their seats, they'll be more responsive to their constituents.

The first instinct of power is the retention of power, and under a Constitution that requires periodic elections, that is best achieved by the suppression of election-time speech,

I am using my own computer. I am using a borrowed projector. The Power Point (presentation) I assembled. In terms of whatever complaints they have about presentations that were given at City Council, they were done objectively presenting the facts,

Were concentrating on areas where the power has been fixed and also concentrating on removing large branches from sidewalks.

We don't want them using power soakers.