It's a dense city built of 150-year-old wood, and these fires engulf structures very, very quickly. It's not just an issue of minutes that matter in response; seconds matter. These brownouts have affected response times.

Every one out of the rack is the same. With wood, it depends on how good the wood is.

It's a little different because in junior college, we played in a wood-bat league. So playing with metal here, it's going to be a change. But I'll just have to adjust to how the hitters are. The metal-bat game is obviously a lot different in the way you approach hitters.

This is a very serious campaign violation, and we are urging the appropriate authorities to investigate and take action immediately before this front group has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to buy this Assembly race for the candidate of Sacramento insiders.

Our campaign has been extraordinarily aggressive early.

There are people all over this nation who want to participate in what Gavin is trying to do -- to have a more progressive, aggressive, creative Democratic Party.