The second draft

John Ford is a man of his word and did fax the second draft of the legislation document (exhibit 78) to McNeil's Atlanta office. This draft too came directly from Senator Ford's office as per the fax marks on the bottom of the document.

A phone conversation on Oct 11, 2004 (exhibit 23) talks about this second draft.

"Did you get the fax?" asks Ford.

"I looked at it and we still got some issues there, man. I'm going to sit down and look at it hard," says McNeil.

McNeil says they have made some progress and the document is getting there. McNeil tells Ford he's in Chicago at the moment, but will be back later this week to go over the changes. In case you're wondering, McNeil wasn't really in Chicago.

"If you need to make changes in whatever section, we'll make those changes," says Ford.

The two of them meet up in McNeil's Memphis office on October 15, 2004. Exhibit 25 shows the video footage of this meeting. Before the meeting starts, Ford gives McNeil Titan football tickets. They are box seats. The two men then get into the draft details.

McNeil still has a problem with the draft.

"I need it to be a little more exclusive to us," says McNeil.

According to McNeil, he wants Ford to tweak the document to make the legislature more exclusive to them. In other words, they would get preference over any other company --just in case some other company decided to move in on their turf. Of course, that will never happen as E-Cycle's business model doesn't make sense --but Ford doesn't think about that. Instead he's focused on making E-Cycle happy.

"We can change it the way you want to change it," says Ford.

Later on Ford, repeats this...

"We file this bill, we want to have all the right language in it. This is a draft. We can change anything we want."