We need disclosure as to who is funding the Protocol Foundation. People need to know who is influencing the governor on contributions to this -- a trip he's going on.

Nobody is minding the store. If you don't have any agency monitoring and no enforcement, people think they can get away with it.

If you're just talking to rich people, you're probably not going to hear a lot about health care for the poor. But then again, they're probably not talking too much policy at these events. Most of the wealthy people who attend know the rules. They're not supposed to talk policy or ask for things. That doesn't mean they can't call up later on when they have a problem.

If it passes, it's almost a resurrection for the governor. It shows he can govern again. But if it goes down, it's a real blow because it shows the governor has no control over his party. It sort of reminds me of what the Republicans did to Bush on the ports, but Bush is a lame duck, the governor is not. He's their best hope in the state for this year.

This isn't campaign money — it's government access money, and that's what we should call it. If you have strong convictions, you're not going to give to both sides.

You really feel for them. The volunteers talk about their own personal experiences of being oppressed in Iraq, ... Their accounts range from being brutalized to being shot, and in some cases, the exiles say their family members have been murdered.