Roads must be built here in Manatee County. To give $100 to make you look good politically, when people here are dying on roads, it doesn't make sense.

We need to get roads built, ... We need to get funding fixed for Boone County. I'd much rather see them spend time on those issues than I would fighting off political battles.

We want to make a statement that we believe in Manatee County and we believe this is the place to work, live and play.

Manatee County real estate has exploded in the last three years.

When the mediator calls you, it's a good thing. We want a contract as bad as the county does.

[When the Grimes County Economic Development Committee was looking at the details of such a plant locating in the area, certain benefits were obvious.] In the short term did not really see what they could do for power needs in Grimes County, ... We knew early on Mid-South and Entergy could benefit, but I probably didn't think we could have the storm of the century.