After the 9/11 disaster and subsequent market downturn , Indiana lost 120,000 jobs , tax revenues dropped , and O'Bannon had to cut social services and other services in order to spare education . In 2001 he worked with the state legislature to formulate a major restructuring of the state tax system . His opponents blamed him for various problems arising in the second term , including a slow response by his environmental agency to a big fish kill , and problems at two state centers for the developmentally disabled
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September 11 attacks
Frank O'Bannon