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... storms that we discussed.

So Nolan reached out to Lamont with an urgent plea and said, quote, "Please, Governor Lamont, don't leave town until we have a deal on the storms." He said, quote, "Pressure is extraordinary with downgrades from credit rating agencies." So, um, Governor Lamont responded saying that he talked with, um, the Office of Consumer Counsel, Clare Colman, and that he's waiting for a few documents and a very serious proposal from Eversource.

Joe Nolan then texted back to Lamont that he wanted to hire Johnny, quote, "Hire Johnny," which is a reference to former Lamont Chief of Staff Jonathan Dock, to quote, "Bang this out." So the context there is there needed to be a deal negotiated between Eversource and the State of Connecticut to recoup the storm costs, and Eversource wanted to hire Jonathan Dock as sort of this mediator-

Sure.

But are they anything more than words? Because on another call to investors, Joe Nolan, the CEO of Eversource said, quote, "If I had a buck for every time they'd say," they being politicians, "would say, 'Hey, nothing personal, Joe.

You know you're our friend.' But you have to do that." Obviously, quote, "They're getting attacked.

Utility issues are front and center.

Hmm.

It was hard enough just to like get the concept through.

So this is the thing that happens with, even see this at the state legislature.

It's like a bill gets passed the first time, and yeah, it's on the books, but then there's no enforcement mechanism.

There's no real teeth to it, and then they have to go back session after session and amend it and strengthen it.

So that's kind of what they're doing here in Hartford.

Um, and I think that it's a good thing.

Yeah.