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Who is Mayor Lee Sullivan and what was his background?
I was the mayor of Whoville from 2000, protecting, if I may say, all the little Whos.
Mayor Lee Sullivan wasn't just a politician. He'd had a long career in law enforcement,
My last tour of duty was as chief of police, Panama City Beach. They had encouraged me to retire so they could get a kinder, gentler police chief. I took my retirement in 1997, and then I ran against the mayor that encouraged me to leave, so I replaced the asshole who replaced me.
Fair enough. That seems fair enough. Mayor Lee is the kind of guy who's always sure he's right. And he really liked getting rid of things. He's very well known for his campaign against crawfish.
The state of Florida decided that this specific crawfish was an endangered species crawfish. If this crawdad was on your property, basically you just needed to kill yourself because you couldn't do anything with your property anymore.
What was Mayor Lee's campaign against the endangered crawfish?
Here he is on a local TV program during his election campaign.
We're going to spend a lot of money and people will have jobs, government jobs, to save this thing. Lord knows I'd have been in prison when I was a young'un. There's no telling what we did to them.
Mayor Lee wanted to blast those crawdads off the face of the earth.
I was encouraging him to fill it up. Okay, put dirt in it. Kill the crawdad.
And now he was planning to do the same to Joe Francis. From Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment, I'm Vanessa Grigoriadis, and this is Infamous. You're listening to episode two of our five part series, Boy Gone Wild.
Join us as we make the rounds with sorority girls, college cuties and the girl next door. Beautiful, real college girls, unbuttoned and out of control.
So when we left off last time, 2002, I'd just seen Joe Francis get arrested. We were at the Holiday Inn in Panama City Beach. Reminder, you're sometimes hearing an actor play Joe Francis.
Next time I come to town, I want this hotel renamed the Joe Francis Holiday Inn.
I met up with Joe again the next morning. He looked tired, but he was otherwise his usual arrogant self.
They made me fill out a questionnaire where I had to check off what kind of car I had. I was like, is there a box to check for a plane?
This time, we're going to find out what happened the following year when I wasn't there. And remember, more recently, Joe issued a blanket denial to all the questions I asked him. So we're not hearing his side of the story.
he felt like he had found the promised land. He had found fertile ground. And so the next year, here come JoJo with his jet and his motorhome and all his minions.
Jo not only decided to return to Panama City Beach, he returned full force. And Mayor Lee was not okay with this.
Now, we had Laveela and we had Spinnaker. And if you wanted to see boobies, you could go down there and the girls were having wet t-shirt contests and showing boobies and everything was good. And I mean, that was all right because they had to be 18 to enter. But that wasn't good enough for Joe, don't you know?
I don't think Joe has anything to do with the holiday inn this time, but pretty much everything is the same. There are shooters, there are girls, there's filming. And obviously, Mayor Lee doesn't like this filming, particularly on his roads. You weren't supposed to drink on them, and you definitely weren't supposed to have a peep show.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Mayor Lee Sullivan and what was his background?
1:09–2:24
2
What was Mayor Lee's campaign against the endangered crawfish?
2:24–7:08
3
How did Joe Francis defend his Girls Gone Wild filming legally?
7:08–9:57
4
What was the public confrontation between Joe Francis and Mayor Lee Sullivan?
9:57–12:46
5
How did law enforcement respond to Girls Gone Wild's activities in Panama City Beach?
12:46–14:30
6
What was the significance of the Greta Van Susteren debate between Joe Francis and Mayor Lee?
14:30–16:04
7
Who is Adam Buff and what role did he play in investigating Joe Francis?
16:04–17:31
8
What event ignited Mayor Lee's crackdown on Girls Gone Wild?
17:31–27:34
Speakers
11 identified
Mayor Lee Sullivan 4 min
Adam Buff (Sheriff's Special Investigations Unit) 2 min
Unidentified Speaker (Brief Interjection) 1 min
Riley Perez 1 min
Joe Francis 1 min
SimpliSafe Advertiser 1 min
Quince Advertiser 1 min
Lawyer for a woman who was filmed 1 min
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