(NEWS CENTER) --  The governor was quoted last week as saying that he finds many middle managers in State government are "as corrupt as could be" in their thinking, when it comes to changing the way government works.

  We talk with NEWS CENTER political analysts Phil Harriman and Ethan Strimling about whether there will be any fallout from that comment; and about how Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Olympia Snowe are trying to reach out to fellow party members in advance of the GOP state convention.