This special session will provide a focused way to deliver on that promise without the influence of other issues,

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

I made a promise to craft this, to put something on the ballot. And I've done that. I'm not going to go against my constituents.

I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

reflects an insensitivity to the victims [and] the victims' families.