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downtown Clearwater —— we were eventually rejected for
office space. Not because of lack of any financial wear—
with-all to pay for the office, but because in each and
every instance the Church of Scientology, which was
following me around all the time then, were going to
these office building and providing booklets like they
provided to the prosecutors office on all the individuals
involved in this Lisa McPherson Trust, and persuaded
these office buildings that we were troublemakers, that
they shouldn’t rent to us, that there will be pickets
outside of their building by the Church of Scientology
and they all refused to rent to us. So there were also
people who were called by the Assistant City Manager’s
office in Clearwater suggesting that they should not be
dealing with Stacy Brooks, Bob Minton, or Jesse Prince.
We believe that this was due to pressure by the Church of
Scientology on these officials.

Q Was that purpose for coming into town, to try
to shore up a place for the Lisa McPherson Trust?

A Well, the purpose was to try to find a place.
At that stage we were not able to because even though
some of these buildings were a third empty, nobody had a
lack of space, it’s just they wouldn’t let us rent
because of these reasons. I decided the only way we
could go forward down here was to buy a building. So I