The hotel business has picked up rapidly, but we don't think the industry has added enough new employees to keep up with the level of staffing.

Before they had dance contests and pie eating contests ... it's not like it used to be.

I want to make it clear to those immigrants who are here illegally, we're not going to go around to factories (or elsewhere) asking for your cards. I don't want an immigrant here illegally violated by a (criminal) act of someone else, afraid to call the local law enforcement agencies for help. We will not deport you. We will go after the person who did the crime.

It's our goal that hotel workers can make a decent living by working only one job.

The problem is there's been so much growth, so fast. I live in La Costa, and it's going nuts.

I was glad I could lend a helping hand.

Someone had her arm, someone had another arm and I had a leg.