13 Quotes by Jay Stewart

Many of us who work in the private sector, your boss would pretty much tell you to cancel your vacation. The public already has a perception that too many of our state leaders don't feel the rules apply to them. This type of activity does nothing but buttress that perception.

What you're seeing is a frontal assault on business as usual - the politics of insiders using the system to benefit themselves and their friends.

You can have a great law, but if public officials don't want to comply, you're not going to get access. You have the law on the books and the reality on the ground, and sometimes they're not the same thing.

With our school district and location, we could have double the amount of building easily. We're protecting our commercial and industrial land.

The system can't work when you don't have full disclosure.

People understand we're not deviating from our plan. We're sticking to it.

Something large-scale is likely to happen there someday.

There's a point in time, if the person's putting in six, seven, eight hours a day, that seems remarkably like a full-time job. You probably want to have their full attention all the time. If you're demanding a whole lot of responsibility and effort and giving part-time pay, are you getting the proper management that the community deserves?

It strikes me the governor is making himself a pretty easy target here. What is the public supposed to make of a lobbyist being your campaign spokesman?