People are still going to meet in restaurants. They may just have to pay their own way.

The whole idea behind public financing was to hold down the cost of campaigns and encourage more people to participate. Now they've escalated campaign fund-raising to levels we've never seen.

Sit around the bars, talked to people, ate in the restaurants, and chatted with the old ladies on the street. Fishermen are pretty much that way.

People are just loving restaurants. And we're fortunate to have all the factors in place in terms of the economic vitality of our city in order for the resurgence to occur.

Local restaurants have always had their regulars, but there are new people coming to town who may not have found those local gems yet.

When voters go into the voting booth and they read what's being proposed, it's going to be like common sense to them. It's a basic conflict of interest for legislators to draw their own districts.