it would be great if the conservation and environmental community outside of government would tell them, thank you, we appreciate you doing that, but if this ever happens to us, we would like all that money to come to us.

Even though they are not anyone's employee, per se, they are basically----

The standard review that they are using is a lot higher than you might even find in a court of law.

Good morning. First of all, thank you all for welcoming me here to Pensacola.

It is critical for the local communities, the local lawmakers and commissioners to have some say in that.

we have got $30 million that we are going to help diversify our economy with.

If you have been foreclosed on or you cannot feed your family, the promise of getting a payout down the road does not matter.

But, frankly, I do not think there is any salvation for Mr. Feinberg and the GCCF.

If there was a ground of understanding of what their expectations were, this would help.

I think that--let us move beyond that.

Well, again, and I do not want to put something--I am not committing to something, because I have not thought about it, we have not thought about all the implications, I have not talked to anybody about this yet, but one of the things we…

So I think it is critically important that the Gulf states are united in presenting a united front on why it is important this money be assigned, and the argument is this is not general revenue.

Well, just as an update on that, let me state that I am pleased by the unity and progress that has been made by numerous members that have been working on this.

I think the argument is, while we are glad the oil is not spewing and we are glad that you do not see it on the surface... we are concerned that there is a bunch of oil that is still unaccounted for.

I think what we are learning, and increasingly being confirmed to us, is that the problem here is we have a flawed process, a process that has no uniformity.

No, no, it is not. It is a good suggestion.

I think continued research is critical.

I think Florida has done a good job developing a consortium of all of our state universities.