I spent a lot of money and a lot of effort cleaning it up.

The world has a fascination with being able to buy a town. You can come in and name it after yourself if you want and be the mayor, chief of police and secretary of interior all at the same time.

Due to family reasons, I'm pretty much tied to Southern California for the foreseeable future. We can't move up there. It only makes sense to pass it on to somebody else.

It's come full circle. Now it's been fixed up, and I think it's actually ready to be sold on eBay.

seriously undermine the effort to close the soft-money loophole for 527 groups which resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in unlimited soft money being spent to influence the 2004 federal elections.

We did it as a last-ditch effort. We don't feel they should get this money, but we want the land back so bad that we're going against our principles. It's just too close to our heart. We can't stand the thought of it going to a developer for a whole bunch of homes.