11 Quotes by Joe Alexander

Our time frame with this is on Nov. 15, we need to submit a plan on how to consolidate 26 county offices to Washington. We're going to be gathering input from farmers and others on the best way to do this.

June and July we were looking at terrible crops, and then I think we benefited from hurricane rains and had a better crop than we thought, which dropped the prices.

(The delay) has come from chambers, but that is the only guidance I have. The conclusions of law will not be issued today.

Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here, and I won a lot of money here. That's the name of the game.

You're pretty close to the station. So, you are taking a lot of valuable land for parking.

The more people who know about it, the more help we can get. We can't do this on a small piece of land. We need a lot of space and it's going to need a lot of time.

That rigging slipped down underneath that horse as I came off and I was dragged once and a half times around the arena. I was looking up at the belly of that horse the whole way.

If legislation took over and worked we would loose half the force and then we would have to take half the people to do the same amount of work and that would present a problem.

In places like Ford County, Piatt, Douglas and DeWitt counties, (agriculture) is a large economic driver.