So I needed six votes here, and I needed five votes here. I needed 11 people to raise their hand, and I could get untold millions of dollars. And I did all of the lobbying for that. Let me go back. The Zoo Commission had been through holy hell with Mehrtens building the zoo, his termination, and they took a real backseat. I think after I’d been director for four or five years, they probably decided, “Eh, this kid might know what he’s doing.” And even though I really wanted their involvement, unlike Mehrtens who kept them at an arm’s length, I wanted them involved, but they didn’t. They just said, “You do it. You know what’s best,” you know.
