Mark Blum credited as playing...
Mike Summers
- Dan: [the following evening at the bike shop, after Mike Summers's visit to the Conner home; he walks in the door] Can I help you?
- Mike Summers: Yeah, Hi, I'm Mike Summers, your state representative. How are you doin'? Yeah, I'm meeting with small businessmen in the area, trying to get a sense of what their conse...
- Roseanne: [Roseanne comes in from the back of the shop and sees him] Hey!
- Mike Summers: Oh hell no!
- [he turns and runs out the front door, with Roseanne hot on his tail]
- Roseanne: Hey! Wait up!
- Mike Summers: Hi, I'm Mike Summers, your state representative. How'ya doin'?
- Roseanne: Great.
- Mike Summers: Good, I'm going door-to-door, trying to get to know my constituents.
- Roseanne: Oh, door-to-door, huh. That takes a lot of time. Why don'tcha just go down to the unemployment office, and see everybody all at once.
- Mike Summers: We can't let this area's work-force lay idle. That's why bringing in new business is my number-one priority.
- Roseanne: How?
- Mike Summers: Through tax incentives. See, we're gonna make it cheaper for out-of-state businesses to set up shop right here in Lanford.
- Roseanne: So they get a tax break?
- Mike Summers: Yeah, that's why they come here.
- Roseanne: Well, who's gonna pay the taxes that they ain't paying?
- Mike Summers: Well, you... you will. But you'll be working... good, steady employment.
- Roseanne: Union wages?
- Mike Summers: Well, now, part of the reason these companies are finding it so expensive to operate in other locations is...
- Roseanne: [Roseanne cuts him off] Soooo, they're gonna dump the union, so they can come here and hire us at scab wages, and then for *that* privilege... we get to pay their taxes?
- Mike Summers: [pause] Is your husband home?