Marc Morial

As far as community groups and, you know, if somebody wants to come, you know, talk, raise an issue, I'm trying to hear you.

Now, that doesn't mean I'm going to agree with you.

So I was at, and I also was, I think I picked this up from my father, you know, being just a straight shooter with people.

You know, you come down and talk to me, you're going to get, you can get an answer.

It might be a yes, might be a no, but you're going to get an answer.

Right.

That's it.

I'm not going to play you and delay.

Oh, man, I'm trying to think about it.

I'm going to say, look, I don't think I can make that work.

Or, you know what?

Your idea is good, but it's half form.

Come back with a better idea.

So we you know, we did a lot of, you know, an open door policy with the business community, many of whom did not support me initially.

I had an open door policy and we we had a tremendous impact.

relationship with ministerial and faith leadership in the city.

We convened them on a quarterly basis.

We held a luncheon for them on a quarterly basis to talk about the affairs of the city.

We had a great relationship with labor, right?

Labor, again, you know, we had periodic, I believe in engaging with people on a periodic basis because, you know, I took the, I got to hear what they're saying.