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 department under those kind of conditions. We had a relationship with the
 county commission particularly because they were a peculiar group of people
 who were governing a very, very fine county in the state of Florida, and were not
 competent to do so. We had problems with them all the time, and it got to almost
 a name-calling situation. As a result, very few roads and very little money was
 spent in Pinellas County after the construction of 66th Street, which was a very
 important thing which I did, right off the bat, after we took office. But that is about
 all they got after that, simply because of their refusal to cooperate and to do
 things that needed to be done for the good of the whole community. As a result,
 they suffered.

B: When you say the whole community in that context, you are referring to the
 whole Pinellas County area?

C: I am talking about, basically, the whole county of Pinellas, because what was
 good for one part may not have been good for the other part, as far as they were
 concerned. It is a long, narrow county, beginning with Tarpon Springs on the
 north and going through St. Petersburg on the south where the Sunshine
 Skyway Bridge starts. It is not a very wide county, and a lot of their interests are
 not the same. People in Tarpon Springs and Dunedin and Clearwater do not
 have the same interests, or did not have the same interests, as the people in
 south Pinellas County, and so there was always a break in their relationships
 over there. It was difficult to deal with them when they were fighting among
 themselves. As a result, I had thirteen other counties in my district which also
 needed a lot of work and a lot of roads, a lot of bridges, so we concentrated
 basically on those counties while Pinellas County was trying to get their act
 together to get something accomplished.

B: Were there people in St. Petersburg that you did develop a good working
 relationship at any point with?

C: Some of my dearest friends and long-time friends and college friends were
 people in the Chamber of Commerce and the business community, and they
 could not have been nicer. They could not have been more cooperative. They
 were doing everything they could to get the county commission to cooperate and
 the different areas of the county to cooperate, such as beaches and [Key] Largo
 and St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Tarpon Springs. But they never were able to get
 all of the groups together on a project that was important to all of them. As a
 result, we did not get a heck of a lot accomplished in Pinellas County. But there
 were some fine, fine businesspeople, commercial people, over there who still are
 there and are still good friends.

B: Any names that occur to you?

C: Raleigh Green, Jr., obviously, was one, who became the CEO of Florida Federal,