I mean, it was. People don't know what the commission does, and it's hard to raise money traditionally. So you run as a clean elections candidate, because in the past, Utilities had gotten involved in our campaign, which was horrible situations before I was there. So in order to stop that, and we had a code of ethics passed, we all run as clean elections candidates. (33:37–33:44)
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