We feel confident that the Tampa Bay area and our community can produce a successful Republican convention.

You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up.

We lost out by a flip of the coin. This time that's not going to happen.

They are deserving of any type of honor they receive. I think it's fantastic. Their teams are family. That's the atmosphere they create with the children.

They've become real Americans. They fit right into the mainstream.

There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general preparedness thing. We drill annually because a disaster situation stretches our resources and goes beyond our normal scope of day-to-day operations.