Good Morning fellow Bloggers,
I happened to see a small item in the paper that the Alabama gubernatorial candidates were coming to Prichard City Hall where I live and speak on their various platforms this morning. Well, political amateur that I am and the fact that I am pretty vague on who is running, I went; Now, right now in my area, Mobile is about to wind down on their Mardi Gras festivities. So most of the folks here are off, but their minds are on partying; So, it was only a handful of people, most of them the Black Alabama Mayors who sponsored this and the city employees of Prichard. One of the candidates,Robert Bentley, said that he wouldn't take a salary upon becoming governor until he got the unemployment situation in this state taken cared of. Another issue that came up was the gaming issue that is unresolved. First of all, there is NO gambling in this state bar the Indian casino in Atmore and Shorter, and the neighboring states love to see us when we buy lottery tickets and go to the casinos; shoot, we have buses going down to Biloxi every hour on the hour here! They want to change it so that we can keep our money in Alabama!! oh I was probably the only one who was cheering and Amening that because I think it's a dang shame we need to leave this state to spend money benefiting other states. Yet, Alabama, has little funds to do jack and what they do have they usually do a lot good with so we need results and the ones that showed up, I must say came away mighty impressed; Yet in my haste to take pictures, and texts coming in,my cell phone made some noise and I almost got the boot from the police there; So I happily gave my cell to them because I wanted to be there. The only thing I had an issue with was they took questions from the mayors there and the moderator took only ONE question from the rest of the audience. And I couldn't get mad on that question because it was one I was curious on and that is the prisoner's right to vote, which has been passed but seems to be left under the jurisdictions of the county registrars which I feel is not good. Another fellow named Johnson, I liked him; He works for a state agency called ADECCA, which he mentioned plenty, he talked well, but I won't lie, I was impressed with what he said, and Arthur Davis, man, I was blown; the man speaks well, he talked on changing the state constitution which was done back in 1901. He feels it doesn't benefit many, is outdated and needs to be overhauled; I totally agreed and the others there had to agree as well. Plus the bingo and gaming issues was addressed by the men; but one thing that hurt me a bit was not one mentioned nothing about that tanker situation that is still in limbo in Washington. www.comebackhometomobile.com although I know he is a friend of the President, he also stated that they didn't agree on everything(Cap and Trade one, health care another)but I hope Obama comes to our state and stump for him if he gets past the primary. Well I have to go; I got a parade to hit.
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