Mark Herron Quotations

We want to provide consumers a quick and convenient place to pick up a bottle of wine. Like some of our other popular proprietary brands, Thousand Oaks will be a high quality, great-tasting wine available only at 7-Eleven.

From my point of view, he's falling on the side of exercising his First Amendment right to voice his opinion. He's not using the mechanisms of campaigning to do it. He's just writing some letters.

I think the Ethics Commission didn't give proper consideration to the investigation previously done by the deputy city manager, which concluded that he acted within the discretion given to him as chief of police in both instances.

We want to make 7-Eleven a destination for wine consumers by offering quality, value and convenience. Wine sales are growing and, with the addition of our affordably priced premium brand, Thousand Oaks, we expect to increase our share of the expanding wine market.

We believe it would be appropriate for the commission to exercise its discretion to determine that the public interest would not be served by proceeding further.

There are going to be a lot of groups that have problems with it.

There's no special private gain that's going to inure to him because of the vote. His share of the company is so infinitesimal.

There would be a cost for expenses of the commission, for commission staff, for computers, ... But it would be approximately half of the cost now because there would not be duplication.

A lot of people are going to be caught in this trap that they're creating.

There's a real risk there. They're creating a huge constitutional issue here.

There's an acknowledgement that Mr. Anderson violated the election laws, but there's also a statement that when he was acting, he thought he was acting consistent with the law.

The benefits to the people of the state of Florida of having a fair, relatively politics-free reapportionment would outweigh the costs,

None of our guys took part in the golf tournament.

I'm just going to wait and see what they tell me. Whatever they say, we'll do it.

I don't think this situation is covered. It is measured as the difference between the first and second candidates. It is not measured between the difference of if you have a runoff or not.

The dictionary definition of 'nonpartisan' says it's not controlled by any one political party.