Preview: New Constitution Reform Push

Mobile Accr Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform is starting its new “Bring It Back Home” campaign to push for a major overhaul of the Alabama state constitution.

by Chad Petri

Published: Sat, October 24, 2009 - 2:27 pm CST Last Updated: Sat, October 24, 2009 - 8:41 pm CST

MOBILE, Alabama - There are many problems members of ACCR have with Alabama’s state constitution. Chief among them is what they say is a lack of home rule. They say, many times, issues that effect only one county, like Mobile, have to be voted on by the entire state through a constitutional amendment. ACCR members are calling for a constitutional convention to draft a constitution that gives more power to county commissions state wide and less to the legislature in Montgomery. They held a meeting in Mobile today to try and spread the word about their efforts; you can read my full story here.

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carl Says:

Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 7:38 am

I believe they ought to put in a pay cap for some of the state’s workers.Mercy,did you see they pay almost $300,000 a year to secretary of the senate.I could stand a year of that!

lovepeace Says:

Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:42 pm

AL patriot, I agree. The current rule allows exclusion of people who will be directly affected by annexation from the vote. That’s a bad way to grow a city…

pat s Says:

Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 9:39 pm

Whatever is written in to a new Alabama Constitution will be up to the delegates that will be elected by the voters of Alabama…so get active now and run for a delegate position when we get to that point.

Alabama Patriot Says:

Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:30 pm

Will this committee be looking into changing the piece that cities use to get votes for areas to be annexed? What I’d like to know is are the guidelines going to be modified to take into account the major increase in population in the 40-acre plots that currently only require 2 people per 40-acres to get the measure in question up for a vote? The current rules are vastly unfair to thousands of citizens in unincorporated areas when a city wants to annex a particular area. The current rules make it too easy to exclude thousands of people in the decision to approve a annexation push in an area. Recent annexations by Mobile have angered many people and caused major distrust of the city mayor and city leaders where little mistrust existed before. A change is needed to guarantee that people’s wishes will be fairly represented when potential tax increases are the direct result of a city’s actions. JMO