And the philosophy has to be, do we want to grow government and it take care of all of our needs or do we as a community want to take care of our own needs? And The fact that [the governor] turned down these funds is because there are a ton of strings tied up to all these funds. You have to do and to implement those funds, it is expensive, but you have to do things that you don't want to do as a state, possibly. (24:07–24:14)
CLAIM
Asserts that the governor declined federal funds due to numerous conditions attached to them.
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