Sweet talk on Valentine's day

"I need to talk to you this stuff, man," says McNeil. "You need to explain to me about this fiscal note, man."

This was opening of a conversation (exhibit 47) between McNeil and Ford on Valentine's Day, 2005 and Ford is about to sweet talk his way through the explanation.

The fiscal note is an evaluation on how much a particular piece of legislation will cost. Basically, they want to know whether or not the legislation will be a liability or an expense to the state. But Ford always has his client's interest at heart and promises to take care of it.

"It will take a few days to look at it, don't worry about it. They probably didn't understand," says Ford.

What Ford is referring to are storage costs and other costs associated with the legislation that he thinks aren't important and just need to be clarified.

"Look at the storage fee," he tells McNeil. "They act like they're going to sell these things and they have to pay to storage, but they already paying for storage."

Ford goes onto to clarify the reasons. McNeil doesn't even need to say a word.

"It would reduce their costs. It would be a cost reduction in terms of storage and management. I'm going to have them to check percisely what they are doing. That's why I put it off for 6 weeks...I'll put all that in perspective this week," says Ford.

But Ford is going to do more than put the legislation off, he's going to do some checking around on behalf of ECycle.

"I'm meeting with Roscoe and AC in Nashville tomorrow. I'll mention to them about the computer. If there is a problem, I'll find out," promises Ford.

"That's solid," says McNeil.