I've never received this kind of contributions before. I have received smaller contributions as alderman and always thanked those contributors as well.

Should an alderman elect to resign, they can do that at any time. The resignation would be received in a formal meeting of the board. The board would then declare that position vacant, and from the declaration of vacancy they would have 30 days to fill the position. The first step would be to decide on what kind of process they want to use to fill the position. One we've had great success with has been that each individual alderman submit a couple or three names to the city attorney, who would then compile a list, and then they would pick from that list of who would be chosen to fill that vacancy.

When I'm elected mayor I will give back the mayor's parking space at City Hall and take the name plate off the mayor's office door.

We feel pretty comfortable. We believe we're in a horse race. I have personally sent a thank-you card to every contributor.

It saddens me people feel the way they do about us. It must be changed.

I challenge each member of the council to donate a month of their (council) salary to pay for the gifts.