They looked at states that had no marine mammal exhibits, aquariums, whatever and that had weak, dare I say easily influenced state legislatures, and they picked South Carolina. So they got a bill introduced into the state legislature that to ban the exhibition of marine mammals in South Carolina. When that first happened, I laughed, but I learned very quickly that it was gonna happen. And there was a large hearing in the state. It was in the Senate Judiciary Committee, I think. And I had two good friends on that committee. (laughs) And Anheuser-Busch took the lead in trying to stop the law from being passed because at the time they owned Sea World. They hired the former lieutenant governor as their chief lobbyist. We brought in several aquarium directors, John Prescott, I remember, from New England Aquarium, and had a hearing.
