"The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and Eugene City Hall is exacerbating this inequity..."

"Somehow a fiscal crisis never seems to emerge when they are giving money away."

"A flat fee is one of the most regressive taxing mechanisms imaginable."

"Capstone is the Walmart of student housing."

"It's not a conspiracy to open the budget and read it."

"Why is there never a mention of a gap or financial crisis at those meetings where City Hall is giving out millions of dollars worth of tax breaks and subsidies?"

"Almost every year, the assumptions and the proposed budget underestimate the amount of revenue...the FY2012 budget predicted an ending fund balance of $34 million, but the true ending fund balance was $43 million."