Some of these bills have been before the Legislature before and we get very, very liberal people who kill these bills off, and then we have to go the initiative route. But that could take another year and the question is, should the public not be protected for a year?

This is simply staffing up the campaign to serve the needs of the candidate. We're simply adding a team of individuals who have won four statewide races in a row.

We are in the process of finding authors to sponsor these types of private-public partnership legislation that would allow us to utilize this valuable tool for infrastructure.

We believe there are literally billions of dollars available in the private market to greatly enhance our infrastructure, particularly in roads, that can be brought to bear.

Usually it's a workplace action or incident. More times the executives are concerned about unknown third parties, people that may have threatened the company in some way.

And I look at some of the other people here and make fun. I'm a more middle-of-the-road fan.

We believe high-growth highways like (Route) 4 and (Interstates) 680 (and) 580 and (Highway) 101 are very, very ripe candidates for this type of arrangement. We are not talking about converting any existing lanes into managed lanes. It would all be new. Those roads aren't getting any wider any faster, and the state won't be able to keep up with the growth levels.

There isn't a person in this industry who isn't appalled by these events.

We work a lot of stalking cases.