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[Crowd noise and music] Female Voice 1: You obviously were re-elected. What kind of a message does that send to you? Richard Cordrey: well, I was very pleased with the turnout that we had. I was very concerned during the campaign,

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but I won as large this year as I ever won. I won in all the precincts, so they gave me a thought at least that maybe I'm doing

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something right, I hope. But certainly living in Sussex County and representing Sussex County you don't live on your laurels too long.

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You gotta prove yourself daily and that's way it should be. Female Voice 1: What specifics do you have in mind that you'd like to see done?

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Richard Cordrey: Well certainly we, I have several things that I'm interested for Sussex partially, my disaster bill that I had last year that I was wanting to set up

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a fund for disaster for municipalities. I'd love to get that one back in the Senate, which I'm planning on doing and

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working it in the House of Representatives. I think it's very important. I think one of the things we're going to have to look at that

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everybody's concerned about and that's liability insurance. I don't think we had maybe right for the people last year,

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but I'm hoping all the people who got together, the trial lawyers, insurance companies, and whoever has got

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something is year that we can live with. Female Voice 1: I just want to make sure that I'm not running out here. How're the road down here, are you pleased?

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Richard Cordrey: No, we're not. We're never pleased with the roads but it's not a simple solution. In other words we put a twenty extra million

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dollars in the roads this year and then one of the major problems we have is getting the department to be able to put enough work out to

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do what we've already spent. I had a project finished up two months ago. That's been on the books for two years. So we feel that they've got to step up

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the engineering part as much as we appropriating the money, Let's get the roads done that we've asked them to do.

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Female Voice 1: Are you pleased with the money you do get in Sussex for road repair? Richard Cordrey: Well, if you tell people up North, I said, yes, I think we do come close to it.

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The only problem we have, and we did it in this last bond bill is the fact that we have so many secondary roads. Our major roads in Sussex

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are in pretty good shape. But it's the secondary roads where we have to do it with a hundred percent, a hundred percent state money

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that it really causes a problem. I we could get a few more dollars in those projects and will be in great shape. Female Voice 1: Thank you, sir.