He said that the state needed to help the county more.
"The state needs to take action to deal with its financial problems," he said.
"If the state needs them, at that time they will help us."
"But it is the first step in something that this state has needed for many years."
Especially in this poor national economy, a state needs every edge it can get.
So it may be that other states just need time to catch up.
But he did say that the state needed fresh leadership.
States have needed people as workers because human labor has been the necessary foundation of power.
For example, a state may need to respond to an international crisis.
Democrats say the states need to be held responsible for how they spend their money.