Silver City2004

Dickie Pilager:
['accidentally' conducting an impromptu press conference] I repeat - I'm not raising taxes. We can't just keep throwing the taxpayers' hard-earned money at these perceived - and some of them I admit are real - so-called social problems. We have to get our priorities straight. Education is a priority. Affordable housing for our working people is a priority. Health care is a priority. Our economy is a priority. The environmental - the whole environmental... arena - that's a big priority. Building new roads and maintaining the present - keeping the infrastructure in place, where it belongs, that's a priority...

Nora Allardyce:
What isn't a priority?

Dickie Pilager:
[stumped] What's not a priority... is those matters which are of less of a - not that they're not important but - if you're going to have a front burner, which is where you want your priorities, it's like... cooking... there needs to be something sitting on the back one. And that's where your other organizations, your church people and your... organizations formed to help these things, will be happy to pitch in if only government would get out of their way...