He's going to be a contender to win state.

And no other legislator I know did.

I've got seven boys that can run. We haven't had that before.

The guys are determined to put the first half behind them and are playing up to their capabilities in the second half.

I feel pretty confident that I'm going to get both of these teams to state. I'm far more optimistic for both of my teams to make it than I've ever been.

Other than not making the playoffs, things couldn't have gone any better. To go through the struggles we did in the first half and being able to persevere and come back and be in the mix and taking that thing all the way down to the wire was great.

When I found out, I was willing to run a (legislative) repeal as part of HB213. But a UPEA lobbyist said I shouldn't.

If you look at our times, they look about as deep and as fast as last year.

From the perspective of my own conscience, morally this is the right thing to do. We need to let the state employees know that we (in the Legislature) are tightening our own belts, too.