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The Governor and State Cabinet will be sending a letter to the BP claims administrator, asking him to start getting money into people’s hands. Frustrated with months of delay, CFO Alex Sink and Governor Charlie Crist today said they would send a strongly worded letter telling the administrator to start paying claims before people go out of business.

Sink brought up the matter as teh Governor and Cabinet were being briefed about the oil spill. “We have businesses who are about to fail and shut their doors through no fault of their own. Maybe Mr. Feinberg can come and talk to us at the next Cabinet Meeting, or we ought to send a strongly worded letter just imploring him to get on with it because our people are hurting out there, and he’s been at it for two months now, ” Sink said. then the Governor chimed in “CFO, I want to echo your comments.  I think it would be more than appropriate for us to co-sign a letter to Mr. Feinberg, encouraging increased urgency as it relates to legitimate claims, that business owners have along the coast as it relates to the oil spill because it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to hang on.

The Governor and Cabinet could ask the claims administrator to appear before them in two weeks.