I don't want to blame it all on him because there had been like 13 other credit downgrades before he became governor. So add eight on top of that and you can see, I mean, We had the worst credit rating in the entire nation. We had all these bills to pay. So there were a lot of people who said to me, particularly people in the business community, who said, you don't want to … (11:26–11:29)
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