Title and story sounds familiar remember the story “Pot Holes and Promises” Commissioner Mike Dean. Some thing must be in the water at their meetings.

Sounds like Mobile Mayor and Mobile county Commissioner Dean were taught at the same school. That gave them a different meaning of keeping your word. In our world that is called breech of contract. I still don’t understand how these officials continue to be voted into office. I haven’t met anyone that has admitted to voting or even approving of Mike Dean. Thank goodness we have State Representation that have kept there word. Back to the subject of keeping your word. If you have to deal with the County talk with Mr. Keggley County Engineer he keeps his word. God Bless

Well, I just think it’s a little too late.  The promise was made and if the City Council Members had a problem with it, they should have spoke up BEFORE the annexation vote.

I remember there was even a meeting between the school board and the Mayor presenting and outlining the details. 

I’m sure there were people “on the line” about which way to vote.  The Mayor promising that the City would give any lost tax revenue back to the school system could have swayed their vote to the “FOR” annexation.

So if the City Council doesn’t vote tomorrow to return the money to the schools, I would think that the City could have a lawsuit on their hands by the people of Mobile County.  AND, I would also argue that the annexation could be ILLEGAL and reversed.

As far as the “controversy” that is mentioned in the article is concerned, the city council has recently announced that the mayor works for them, so they should have stopped the annexations immediately when this promise was made without their approval.  Once again, money is the issue and not right and wrong.  The people lost out and are continuing to lose out.  Get a new set of leaders for Mobile.  Vote these out!

As far as the schools are concerned, Mobile has made it very public that the city is not responsible for the schools.  Mobile probably would not support the schools unless a federal or state court ordered them to, because it takes a lot of money to really have a first-class school system. If the city put money into the schools then they could not boost tourism downtown. You know that money is the root of all evil and Mobile can’t get enough of it. Hence, the offer to loan the school system money, instead of just giving it to them.

Every politician that I have ever seen elected to any public office has always been 2-faced.  They tell you one thing and do something completely different.  They use deception and half-truths to get you to vote for something that they want and then cut your throat.  A case in point is everything that the City of Mobile’s politicians have done to “grow Mobile”.  When the offer of annexation comes up again (and it will), everyone must remember what tricks that the city used to dupe people into voting for past annexations and vigorously and publicly block every lying arguement these elected officials use to brainwash the residents.  Politicians like Sam Jones and Fred Richardson are interested in showing the residents how little regard that they have for people and how they feel that their job position makes them all-powerful over all other citizens in Mobile.

City promises to make that money up until ThyssenKrupp revenue comes in

Saturday, October 11, 2008

“City Attorney Larry Wettermark said school officials won’t lose any money at all. Jones’ plan calls for the city to make up for any lost revenue for up to five years. By 2011, the school system is expected to get about $14 million in property taxes annually from the steel mill.”

How did the city council miss that little detail?

The council voted unanimously to go ahead with the annexation election knowing full well what promises were made.  How could they not?  Did none of them show up for all the hearings leading into the election?  Did they not read a newspaper, or watch the nightly news?

Don’t the voters know by now not to cast their votes on promises?  All politicians make promises they can’t keep.  Its not up to the city council to keep the mayor honest.

What does this tell us?  The council members don’t have a clue about what is going on around them. Most of them are basically out of touch.  Or, they are FOS.  lol

Anyone that happened to watch the news or read a paper knew about that promise leading into the annexation vote.  Sounds a little like the old good cop, bad cop routine.