You've asked an easy question with a lot of complex answers that you deserve. Excuse me, you deserve a. An appropriate answer, that question. Please, let me start with this. I inherited, when I became governor, a state that had been run by a Republican governor who had devastated our fiscal situation. had stagnated the state and left us in a terrible position. I had to rebuild after he left office. We had suffered eight credit downgrades. We had suffered no budget for two years. (37:28–37:39)
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Asserts that the previous Republican governor left Illinois in a poor fiscal state.
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