David shreve

When you privatize government operations, contract them out, and make the assumption that the marketplace is going to do the work for you in terms of making it efficient and managing it in a frugal sense, you're usually disappointed - because it's not going to happen. You've still got to be a good manager. You've still got to watch how the dollars are spent as if they were your own. And we don't do that nearly often enough.

What we want it to mean is that we want our government to be frugal and to watch the bottom line and to concern itself with its customers - in other words, taxpayers - as we imagine businesses to do, you know, that their bottom line is a concern for pleasing their customers and so that sales remain steady and rising over the years. Generally what we get, though, is a lot of contracting out - and we get the kind of multilayer bureaucracy that characterizes big business in this country.

David's track record of success is well-documented, and we are confident that he has the talent to represent over-the-air broadcasting inside the Beltway and around the world with distinction.

Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy Castro and David Allan Coe to perform. Tommy and his band played here last spring and now David.

I know what its like, ... I know what these men are going through. I know every one of them, and it pains me that Im not over there with them.