The system can't work when you don't have full disclosure.

Many of us who work in the private sector, your boss would pretty much tell you to cancel your vacation. The public already has a perception that too many of our state leaders don't feel the rules apply to them. This type of activity does nothing but buttress that perception.

You can have a great law, but if public officials don't want to comply, you're not going to get access. You have the law on the books and the reality on the ground, and sometimes they're not the same thing.

It sounded like the budget address warmed over. If corruption is going to be treated as a minor, nagging issue that's not really that serious, then we're just going to continue to see more of these stories in the future.

It strikes me the governor is making himself a pretty easy target here. What is the public supposed to make of a lobbyist being your campaign spokesman?

People understand we're not deviating from our plan. We're sticking to it.