We are impressed with him, and we feel that he'll work very well with the local government.

It's good to have a new face [in the Senate] as opposed to someone who's already been around.

We have never funded beyond about a half million dollars a year that we had committed to, this foundation school district that we have been funding annually. We have never funded these kinds of numbers.

In a sense, PART has stepped in to bridge the council of government divide and provide a platform that's critically important to us from both a transportation and land-use planning perspective.

It's really the best kept secret in state government.

The special votes did not improve National's chances of forming the next government, indeed they made those prospects slightly worse by having one seat fewer in parliament than was true on the election night.