Sen Hawkins
Sen Hawkins
competing dependable education revenue source trick
The trick is to find a dependable source of revenue for transportation. If not, you get education competing with transportation and that just doesn't work.
avoid normal people point practice
People take you out to dinner. It's just a normal practice down here, but I have made it a point to avoid doing such a thing.
certainly priority
U.S. 58 is certainly a priority for us.
areas excellent push
Most of us live in areas that would make excellent distribution centers. We need to push this through all the way.
care clean managing taken
What we are doing is managing people's business. This has nothing to do with clean air. The marketplace has already taken care of that.
dogs nature
Dogs by nature are not mean. Dogs - you have to make mean.
money plan takes
It takes money to do things. We have enough flexibility in the plan to do something about U.S. 58.
affect miss question sure
It's just a question of making sure we don't miss out on opportunities that would affect our part of the state.
areas economic help middle stability vital
It's a vital part of economic stability that can help areas in the middle of an economic upheaval.
lack membership
What we lack in membership we make up in charm.
accomplish both branch coming effort example executive help joint members parties textbook together work
We were able to work together and accomplish a whole lot. It's a textbook example of a joint effort between members of both parties in the legislative and executive branch coming together to help a region.
coming needs term year
Hopefully, we can put something in that's long term so they don't have to keep coming back. It just needs to be done and this is the year to do it.
budgetary envisioned solely
I don't think we ever envisioned transportation being solely a budgetary item.