1.   Charter reform is a factor.

2.   Fine said she is outraged that charter reform might be dominated by people who live and work outside the city.

3.   Fleming, who helped found the elected charter reform commission movement with Mayor Richard Riordan, has said repeatedly that he prefers charter reform to secession.

4.   He also gives the movement credit for charter reform, saying the impetus was to avoid breaking apart the city itself.

5.   He also quit as pro tem in a dispute with his colleagues over charter reform.

6.   I think a lot of it came from the secession movement and is moving into the area of charter reform.

7.   It took three years to have charter reform and we should spend more than a few weeks on it.

8.   Jeff Brain of Valley Voters Organized Toward Empowerment, the group seeking the cityhood study, said it would not take a position on charter reform.

9.   Other critics, especially defenders of the public schools, dispute the very premise of charter reform.

10.   The former students of Harrison Charter are the poster children of charter reform.