I did everything I could, gave it my all, but I wasn't able to 'do the doors' this time like I did the first five elections, and that was the big difference. I wasn't surprised I lost, simply because I wasn't able to do the doors.

So after 20 years we will have spent $30 to 40 million with really nothing to show for it.

We're building a Huber center. We're going to build something for drug and alcohol abuse treatment. I'm saying let's look at the third leg of this stool, that stool can't stand without that third leg.

The cost of putting these deputies on the road, it's really a transportation service we're running now. A statewide bus service so to speak. This is a problem. It's going to continue. It's going to get worse.

transient, adj.

In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office, this desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that I will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

We believe Mr. Campbell is simply ready to take some time out to smell the roses before accepting any new challenges.