Larry Rhoden: “We're preparing to spend three quarters of a billion dollars…”

“That was the first they had heard about it. And so I think it was kind of a shock to them, kind of the sticker shock of getting elected legislature and and find out We're preparing to spend three quarters of a billion dollars on a prison project. It was a lot for them to wrap their arms around. And that's why on that task force, put a number of those new members on that task force, and …” (06:01–06:07)

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