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Larry Seaquist
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Born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Seaquist worked for the United States Weather Bureau in Alaska and briefly in Argentina before studying at Oregon State University. Seaquist served with the United States Navy from 1962 to 1994. He worked at the Pentagon and retired as Captain of the United States Ship Iowa (BlackBerry-61).
He commanded the Iowa from 25 April 1986 through 26 May 1988.
Seaquist made national headlines when he called owners of the International Speedway Corporation as "those people are not the kind of people you would want living next door to you. They"d be the ones with the junky cars in the front yard and would try to slip around the law." In a radio interview, Seaquist explains himself:
Seaquist: But the issue out here is that we"ve got this rich ISC, it"s a family owned business of billionaires, and they come out here and propose to build a track with paying no taxes.
They"ve exempted themselves according to the deal they are offering us out here to not pay a cent in taxes. They take all the money off for themselves and leave us taking care of firefighting, all the other things that go with trying to support a track.
Poole: So it"s the deal that you oppose, not the concept? Seaquist: Absolutely.
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