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

We talked about it on the way over to Police Plaza. But the mayor has a job to do, and you can't let politics stop you from doing your job.

It's an exciting time, but he's been focused on not only winning re-election but also on governing, ... Other than what he's laid out in his campaign speeches, he hasn't shared other more sweeping ideas he may have.

The suggestion that the mayor is limited to doing only what he proposed during his re-election campaign is absurd.

Talks are continuing, and we are making progress.

We just received the document and are reviewing it. Some of it we agree with, and some of it we don't, but we aren't going to discuss the negotiations publicly.

First was to create a rationale for it by convincing people that the city wasn't doing well under the mayor's leadership, ... and second was that he could do better. He had to clear the first to make the second relevant, but he never came close on either.

You can only talk to him so much about socks.