We've been letting the candidates sell themselves to the workers and to the neighborhood people.
He said the board spent $800,000 a year in legal services trying to prevent neighborhood people from being displaced.
Increasingly, neighborhood people felt intimidated when they tried to use the park.
The few neighborhood people who drifted through Monday morning had no objections.
"They used to ask us for money because their pay is so low," a Westerner said of neighborhood people.
Hundreds of neighborhood people moved from one table to the next, resumes in hand.
But things are still better than they used to be, neighborhood people say.
And neighborhood people are accustomed to being pressed for directions.
The soldiers began to go through our neighborhood killing people.
Without them, the visits would have been impossible; few neighborhood people had cars.