Our intent is to continue to seek ratification of the compact.

That's not the case, and everyone knows that. This governor has had good relations with Mexican governors. He hopes to meet with President (Vicente) Fox himself at some point in the future when their schedules are convenient. But there's nothing to mend here.

The governor's main concern with the legislation as passed is the automatic indexing, ... It will only ratchet things up and will tie the government's hands and will deprive it of the flexibility to address changing economic conditions.

They come at you from start to finish. We expected that, and we knew if we wanted to continue the streak, we had to keep playing, take that first blow and keep competing to get the win.

Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.

Apparently it wasn't our best hour. She got caught in a brief transition process.