We wait 45 hours to rescue miners and it's too late, but the Legislature under the prodding of our governor acts in eight hours.

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

He was asking the citizens to have the gumption that the Legislature and the governor don't have.

In 1907 Rollin Woodruff, Connecticut's governor, was a member. Throughout the years we also had members of the legislature and former first selectmen in the Grange.

I'm going to come out now and make statements, 'Do we dare have a Democratic governor and a Democratic Legislature?' If that's the case, hand over your wallet. 'Cause the government's going to have you living on an allowance,

There's no other governor who's done that. There's governors who came and left, but he came and stayed. The miners I've talked to praise him for that.... He's the best governor we've ever had.