We view the vote as an overwhelming endorsement of the merger.

It's quite a ringing endorsement to get a recommendation to have it back on the market with a unanimous vote.

There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.

It's a little overwhelming. Our goal was to just get to state and then once we walked through that door, take everything one more step at a time. Now for us to get fourth, it's a great feeling.