We had just lost the bid for Bell Atlantic and were told we had the best overall presentation, but still we lost. If we talk about jobs and if we talk about what has to be done as a legislative body, take it out of the abstract and make it personal. We're talking about jobs. This state is not going in the right direction, and it hasn't been going the right way for a long time. In the field of economic development there are competing states that are tough, and the only way you win is to be as tough as they are.
People do business with people, and that's a big piece of the how.
Don and I developed a grand plan. But we really developed something better than that. I would say the larger group that needs to understand what needs to be done is the business group. My view of Maryland is that the business group has to work even harder in getting its act together than government does. It's fractionalized into several associations, there is no oneness, there is not significant leadership, and that's what it's going to take.