In the article, it stated that his "lab" used expensive chemicals that had to be refrigerated. Assuming that it wasn't a meth lab, this sounds legit.

As far as some of his other comments, he seems to not have a clue. He apparantly thinks that Florida should have never been developed due to hurricanes. But here are some facts:
1) Hurricanes hit Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, and the Carolinas too. Florida has a few more, but we do not have all of them. Florida also tends to have better building codes because of this.
2) California has earthquakes. Kansas has tornadoes. The north has ice storms and blizzards. Washington has volcanos. Washington DC has democrats. Every place has something. Your only option is to leave the planet.

He also had a gripe with the pricing structure of the phone company. This is stupid. Capitalism works great where you have a choice. In order ot have a choice true of phone companies, you would need multiple sets of lines running around. There is also no choice in sewage, water, or electricity. The infrastructure is too expensive to install duplicates of everything. So it is much better to have a monopoly, and regulate it so that they do not abuse their monopoly power.

Just my $0.02