My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.
My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.
When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts.
If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.
I'll give you a great example of an issue that no one brought up during this Florida primary, the fact that we're going to have a Chinese made oil rig put in place about 60 miles off the coast of Florida.
I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.
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