A few hundred dollars and for that you're trying to shut down the defendant by preventing him from collecting on an account that was voluntarily entered into.

People go negative when it's a close race.

It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.

We might contract with them to sell excess water.

The narrow legal issue in this case is whether the transactions we're talking about here are loans or not.

You have to think the race is potentially close, in which case you unload the big guns.

The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be intrusted to man.