John Hope Bryant: “I want to reclaim my time. The gentleman has changed my words. This is a debating technique which is very clever, but it…”

“I want to reclaim my time. The gentleman has changed my words. This is a debating technique which is very clever, but it does not work. What I said was the draft of the gentleman's bill which was circulated last fall after you guys won the election and had your Contract With America, had a retroactivity provision in it. Lo and behold, Orange County realizes it cannot live with the retroactivity provision, and the retroactivity provision, which would have affected your community negatively, was taken out. So all the rest of us will have to prosecute our cases for our towns and cities under the high standard, but your county gets to keep going under the low standard. My point is that the bill no longer applies retroactively, and therefore the gentleman's community of Orange County is protected, but all the rest of our communities are not. Vote for the amendment. At least give the taxpayers a break.”