You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.
So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.
I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.
I think the people I met in the course of this campaign realize that those commercials frankly are not reflective of who I am, who I've been and how I'll serve the city of Los Angeles.
I think what we want to do is make sure that the people who are buying handguns have a clean record and at a minimum aren't people who have been convicted of criminal activity in the past, even if it is a misdemeanor activity.
Look, I'm a grown-up, I know people do things out of self-interest and opportunism. I'm going to have to work with people who weren't with me.