Shows he has a problem with the process.
Rick has a history of this going back to his days as the state's Ag Commissioner. He's pretty loose making highly questionable loans with other people's money, got his hand slapped, but kept doing it anyway via other means. The state comptroller is still trying to clean up that financial mess. Same behavior concerning TTC, his own "private" slush fund to subsidize jobs and his dirty little secret called the Franchise Tax designed as a work around to gain revenues that a state income tax could bring if he thought he could sell it to Texans (no dice).
You’re like the gossipy old man hanging around the water cooler.