Howard Griffith actually said...

We all want to make the air cleaner. There are things that we can do, that we can accomplish to do that where Democrats and Republicans can ...

I think the short answer to that is they can't.

We need to get down to the local level as well because while the state of Virginia has issues--I don't know whether it's in the top ten--but...

Yes. What the franchisors in this context want is to have their cake and eat it too.