And I was the only governor that year to defeat an incumbent governor in the United States. And one of the big reasons was, is that we had a terrible problem in Wisconsin. Tony Earl raised more money to increase welfare payments without requiring any kind of causal relation. any kind of response whatsoever. And so people from all over the Midwest, all the way down to Mississippi, were coming to Wisconsin to get on welfare reform. (00:28–00:37)
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