When they're a little disorderly, when they repeat what others have said, I don't think that helps their cause. The governing body tends to turn them off when that happens.

He goes out there everyday. That helps your cause when it comes down to who's going to be on your team. A lot of times that's underrated in the public's eyes.

I was nervous and a little bit intimidated. It was a new setting with new rules.

It shouldn't be intimidating because the (City Council) puts their pants on just like everybody else.

When you prohibit a drug, even the most dangerous drug, two things it doesn't do -- it doesn't cause the drug to be any better and it doesn't cause less people to use it.

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call [my husband] because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years. He'll say, 'Christa, just hang in there. People are going to try to do a good job for you.