from connecticut, governor dannell malloy, and from governor, governor jack markell. as well. >> john markell, obviously chris christie is having problems dealing with unions. you hear from this from a lot of governors, democrat and republican, but you actually have had a very good working relationship with unions in your state and you've been able to strike some pretty good deals and have a great success rate because of it. >> well, we're working hard, and frankly, it started well before i became governor. we went out and went to probably a hundred schools and talked to teachers. and we recognized that the only chance of success was to create a partnership, not to have this as a wedge issue. so it's a partnership with teachers, with their union, with parents, with the disability community, with the business community. and let's focus on what it's really going to take to help these kids achieve their potential. and so far, we've been working very well together. >> and governor of connecticut has long been one of the better states as far as k-12 education, but a lot of

he's jack markell governor of delaware. >> there's a direct linkage between ipos and jobs. and one of the most important things for creation of jobs for a company is after they go public. so a lot of companies are deciding that because it's so cumbersome to go public, particularly when you're smaller, it has become so expensive, that instead of going public, instead of doing an ipo, they're going to sell. i can understand from the owner's perspective why to choose that, but from the perspective of the economy it's not a good thing. >> susie: governor markell what is the biggest obstacle from going public? >> over 10 or 15 years there have been a number of mtion changes that made it burdensome and expensive for companys to go public. the beftd known is the sarbanes oxley. >> it's important to protect the public, but when smaller companies have to start complying with all of these rules -- i think what we will then see is more companies choosing to go public, and then creating >> susie: so what specifically would you propose to turn this situation around? >> my particular foc

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