“I believe the 13 years that I’ve been here, people, regarding that mistake, I think that the 13 years I’ve been here that I’m a ‘yes’ man in the aspect of I’m a very strong community advocate, I volunteered a lot, I’ve made sure we could give back to the community in anything I did, I’ve valued people,” Smith said. “If you’ve gotten to know me or been around me often, I’m not a malicious person. I usually will give you the shirt off my back before I have a shirt. I try to get to value people and I think that my lifestyle and my personality is one that will stand the fact that I can say, ‘look, I made a mistake. But I want you to judge me on what I’ve done, how I’ve proven myself and I will go forward from this and prove myself even more worthy…’”