crime is down. the schools are making improvements that they haven't made in decades. everything is going well except mayor gray's 2010 campaign is still haunted by a shadow campaign that jeffrey thompson did. and he admitted in court a couple of weeks ago, jeffrey thompson did, that he said mayor gray knew about the shadow campaign. and that's dogged the mayor for the last three years. even as the city's done so well on so many different levels under gray, he's not done well at all in the popular opinion polls. >> and thompson, you correct me if i'm wrong, he's the fourth or fifth gray campaign staffer to be indicted, is that correct? >> he wasn't a staffer. he was the money man. he was the deep pockets from city government contracts for health and other things. he's the one that provided the money. and he provided it to several people and two gray campaign staffers, vernon hawkins and genie clark harris, have also pled guilty saying they participated in this scheme. the mayor keeps saying as he