81.   For years, the Legislature has stubbornly refused to change the system, despite repeated criticism from within and without Texas.

82.   Freshmen who took PAC money denied that they were making it harder to change the system.

83.   Fulton County judges said they had long recognized there was a problem, yet had not moved to change the system.

84.   Having witnessed the good the school finance system has done in Edgewood, Rodriguez cannot understand why the wealthy districts are trying to change the system again.

85.   He changed the system.

86.   He needs it in order to change the system from the inside.

87.   He has to get on the ballot first, which he probably will not unless the system is changed.

88.   He said he is powerless to change the system because the subsidies are federally-controlled.

89.   He said there was no need to change that system, saying it had worked well.