I think this is scare politics. The business community had no problem with this.

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.

Although we're always open to ideas from the business community, this isn't on the mayor's second-term agenda.

He was active and participatory in the community, and he was active in politics, ... He was one of those people for whom his country and community were more important than his party.

We know we need to come into Denver and prove that Southwest deserves to be a part of the community. We have a fantastic customer-friendly product and we?ll make the market very aware of our presence. But also, we?ll be involved in the Chamber of Commerce, local event sponsorships and other ways we can give back to the community.

The community must initiate this. It cannot be done by PAT. Jeff Stephan, executive director of the Carnegie Community Development Corporation, had a group there that evening.