In keeping with the tradition of carrying on a conversation with oneself pioneered by Anthony Mauro, I'll give what is likely his response even though he won't
"We never told him not to vote for it, we only told him all the things we think are wrong with the bill and talked about all of our concerns."
"But we really left it up to him, he made that decision. We never said don't vote for this bill that we don't like and has lots of problems and we have never supported and where will the money come from and we hope this won't and we are concerned about and we...."
You get the point.
