the saying we used to have in the village of kibbelee, you struggled with the italian name i noticed, the guy from ohio expect figure it out. what we used to say is when the roof leakser it leaks on republicans and democrats. the job of local government is to fix the roof. you go to congress and there's a number of people who talk about why the roof is leak, who made the roof leak, and kick the can down the road about fixing the roof. the problem solvers, in a our point is, in a very divided government, divided nation, to have the conversations and move the needle toward consensus. i would say as a former mayor, i ince, i do, the decisions you make have real impacts on real people instantly. and when you live through that for 12 years, when you are the point of contact for your constituents on just about everything from potholes to criminal justice, and all things in between, you recognize that the decisions you make impact people. when you are so far removed in congress too often you think that your decisions don't. the minute you lose that connection, you lose the humanity of our de