I might have set the priorities, but these [projects that were to be funded through the bond bill] were for other agencies and for things that are really needed in the commonwealth, like a new taxpayer system and a new Registry of Motor Vehicles system.

I always had a couple of goals. One was that I wanted IT to be apolitical, and it was now becoming a huge political football.

And, two, the kind of things that I took the job to do in the state were not things I was spending my time on anymore. I was spending my time on political stuff, and it's not really where I wanted to devote all my energies. It wasn't going to really advance the agenda of the good IT work that was being done.

So I thought, at the end of the day, I was becoming too much of an impediment to things, and I wasn't enjoying it anymore.

And then the whole investigation and that type of stuff -- it definitely took its toll on me from a personal standpoint and a family standpoint, and I just didn't want to continue to do that.