**Politicos can provide a bureaucratic kick in the ass to whatever state agency is needing motivation.**
I don't think anyone down that way is being complacent right now. After Andrew, "Walkin' Lawton" Chiles sat on his behind saying "shucky darn" until a woman in local government asked "where the Hell is the cavalry?" Now THAT was complacency. The locals in SW Fla appear to be asking for, and receiving, state and federal assistance fairly rapidly.