In 1998 this case started as licenses for bribes, and if anyone would have said when we first heard from a wire tap about fundraising that we would be here today talking about a verdict against the governor, I would have said they are crazy.

He refused to take the bribes. I heard him tell that story more than once. I heard him say they would beat the White Sox. They had a better team.

[A different member of the group, a candy wholesaler, said he vaguely remembered the] licenses-for-bribes ... I don't remember any details or anything about it.

I was even a little stunned when I first heard.

The first thing I heard the day I got hired, I asked, 'So, what's our tradition?' ... They said, 'Well, you better beat North Myrtle Beach.' So I've been stressing about this one a little bit. We had some problems in the first half, but our kids played hard and refused to lose.

The strip was a little more risqué when it first started.