That was over the line. A blatant effort to promote the initiative.

When you go to Washington, you get no satisfaction. You come back and you put in an amount of money -- half of which is supposed to come from the feds -- what are we doing here?

We still have an opportunity, but I believe the best opportunity has passed us by. I assume after what was said here this evening nobody is going to want to see something pasted together over the weekend and thrown on your desk on Monday. I certainly don't. Not any more. So now were talking about November.

I think that we don't want to let this thing hang out there forever, but I don't want to be driven by a date.

However, the governor's proposing a lot more spending than we are. It's unclear how he plans to pay for it.

We don't even have a computer capable of doing this, much less the personnel or a plan.