mike bost: we had jerry costello there for many years. jerry was a conservative democrat. he represented the area well. the concern that had come up was that this congress or bill enyart was not keeping in touch with the people. they had become used to jerry costello's style which was constantly in contact. they knew him. all over the district, and in a short period of time, i realized that was not occurring. i actually talked to a democrat state legislator who said, i do not know him, and he was in the district, and that is not what these jobs are about. they are about servant's positions, and i was able to look at that and then springboard on some of the other issues out there. of course, we also have a videotape that was from my experience on the floor as a floor leader that we did not know whether they would use it or not, but we had to trick -- try to figure out how to build our name recognition. host: this is the one that got you the nickname of -- rep. mike bost: "meltdown mike." it is the second greatest rant according to cnn, so, basically, what had happened is ri

mike bost: we had jerry costello there for many years. jerry was a conservative democrat. he represented the area well. he was constantly in touch with people. the concern that had come up was that this congress or bill enyart was not keeping in touch with the people. they had become used to jerry costello's style, which was constantly in contact. they knew him. all over the district, and in a short period of time, i realized that was not occurring. i actually talked to a democrat state legislator who said, i do not know him, and he was in the district, and that is not what these jobs are about. they are about servant's positions, and i was able to look at that and then springboard on some of the other issues out there. of course, we also have a videotape that was from my experience on the floor as a floor leader that we did not know whether they would use it or not, but we had to try to figure out how to build our name recognition. host: this is the one that got you the nickname of -- rep. mike bost: "meltdown mike." yes. what happened -- it actually is rated as the secon

mike bost: we had jerry costello there for many years. jerry was a conservative democrat. he represented the area well. the concern that had come up was that this congress or bill enyart was not keeping in touch with the people. they had become used to jerry costello's style, which was constantly in contact. they knew him. all over the district, and in a short period of time, i realized that was not occurring. i actually talked to a democrat state legislator who said, i do not know him, and he was in the district, and that is not what these jobs are about. they are about servant's positions, and i was able to look at that and then springboard on some of the other issues out there. of course, we also have a videotape that was from my experience on the floor as a floor leader that we did not know whether they would use it or not, but we had to try to figure out how to build our name recognition. host: this is the one that got you the nickname of -- rep. mike bost: "meltdown mike." it is the second greatest rant according to cnn, so, basically, what had happened is right afte

>> let me explain, we had jerry costello for many years. jerry was conservative democrat. he represented the area well. he was constantly in touch with the people. concern had come up was that this congress, bill enyard was not, not keeping in touch with the people. they had become used to jerry costello's style constantly in contact. they knew him. went all over the district. and, in a short period of time i realized that was not occurring. i actually talked to a democrat state legislator who told me, said, i don't know him. i never met him. he was in the district. and that's not what these jobs are about. they're about servants positions. so i was able to look at that. then springboard on other issues that were out there. of course we also had a videotape that was from my experience on the floor as floor leader that we didn't know whether they would use or not but we had to try to figure out how to build our name recognition. >> explain, this is the one that got you nickname of meltdown mike. >> meltdown mike. >> explain to our viewers. it went viral. >> it did. it is ra