We'd like to get our share of that lottery construction money.

A county that's maybe fiscally conservative and looks very closely at its tax rate ends up getting penalized.

It does make it difficult. I've had to struggle with taking special-interest money or grassroots money. The only special interest I represent is the voter, so I think I've done the right thing.

If I look at the operations, they don't seem to be making money. It's making losses at the operating level.

Money is the power of the impotent

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.