It's very important to have the buy-in of those stakeholders (so) he'll be able to work hand in glove with them. We'd like to see him roll up his sleeves and, as quickly as possible, get to know scientists who might have technologies we'd like to see commercialized.

We hope that the budget is such that next year, finally, these important investments can be made in our state?s future.

When the judge looked at the evidence and saw how blatant the stem cell opponents were in stealing the codes and information from our Web site, he said that it was an obvious and intentional attempt to confuse the public. They're willing to use every tool of deception and disinformation to accomplish their goals.

We've already seen a delay of nearly half a decade in investing in our infrastructure. To continue to delay it further is not a wise decision for our state's economy.

We'll print the petitions as soon as we can. It's time to get on and get signatures.

We are not comfortable using the public Internet, although there has been a lot of good work with [virtual private network] and public-key infrastructure technology.