What you're doing is, you're paying $22.8 million for the privilege of putting up $100 million. At that point, you'd ask why would you need the middleman?

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Scripps is a science institute. We don't want to be suing the county.

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[Scripps] would have never bet its institute on this. They didn't do it on Mecca, and they're certainly not going to do it here.

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Scripps is not being difficult in this. We've tried every which way to come to agreement with the county.

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