It was a corporate decision. They chose to buy out their lease (at the La Crosse mall) and leave.

Campaign contributions should have nothing to do with a decision like this and they didn't. A personal relationship with the secretary of the Interior should have nothing to do with a decision like this and it didn't,

I made the decision because of budget restrictions and we need the manpower here in the department, ... There hasn't been a decline in drug crime in the county, but I think we could put the officer to better use locally through our department.

This [decision to purchase the full license] speaks to the success of our other deployments.

It is an interesting decision that we haven't got an NPC panel refereeing us (tomorrow). We are the only first division team in the country not to get a NPC panel referee this weekend.

We're not a million miles away, but some of our decision making has been poor and we've got to rectify that. Under pressure, we've tended to do the wrong thing, and that has resulted in the concession of a few fairly soft tries.