Since I've been here, which is just a year now, we have been blocked at every turn,

I have no problem with him announcing an ad campaign, although it's the same one we have every year,

I like to turn the venue into a jungle gym, into my playground.

Simple information requests encounter huge roadblocks or exorbitant costs and there are massive delays in getting information.

They insist on having a public relations extravaganza, probably at some cost to the taxpayers . . . to rehash a bunch of old promises (and) make a few new ones,

One of the tests of leadership in a diverse society is that you not allow issues like this -- which are complex -- to boil over into angry, polarized debates,