and your experience, if any, in politics? you know, for the last 20 years, i have been running a nonprofit here in indianapolis with no city, state federal funding. no government dollar gifted. no grant dollars. no stimulus dollars. i have been an employer for years. i ve been a small business owner. i have been showing in the correctional facilities a viable and working reentry program. i ve got a lot of very simple, easy answers. they re not going to be easy to implement. they are going to be strong in building our community back to an empowerment base and a strength-based community like i have been doing here in indianapolis for years. rupert, is that enough to become the governor of an important state like that? jesse ventura is the example we brought up, but he ran a large city. you haven t done that yet. shouldn t you start there? you know, i love being able
floodplain. we can enter into a mitigation project and by doing that we can reduce future disaster damages. so you take federal money, fema money, and offer the people a price for their house. how does it work? are people normally, they have chosen to live there, are they receptive? guest: in some cases they are. the important thing is it is voluntary program, on the part of the homeowner and on the part of the local government that is the owner of the property if the project guess through. so, there is no one forced to sell their home and no one is forced to buy their home. the program starts with declared disasters. when we have a disaster it is declared by the president for all the grant dollars to come to the state of illinois a percentage of those can go to hazard mitigation so when we have a disaster we take advantage of that opportunity to