LOL BamaBob—Can you imagine what the City outline is going to look like on a map if these annexations are approved?  Crazy!

The old expression “crooked as a snake” will soon be replaced by “crooked as the Mobile city limits!!!”

The area where I live is 2 streets to the west and across the street from another part of the annexation.  Like I said they don’t want us because they know we are against it.  They are only going to try to include the areas they know will vote it in like they did the last time.  They only want the tax dollars from businesses to line some pockets not to help the city.

I am just worried that when they get all the business areas will they just automatically include us in the city because we are surrounded by the city.  That is not one bit fair.  We don’t want it and not allowed to vote.

LOL Rosie.  If Sam Jones could do that and get away with it, the first area would probably be Mobile Terrace now that he has the Schillinger WalMart, Target, Lowes, Home Depot and all the other businesses along Schillinger. 

The City of Mobile would look like Medusa on the map.

I wonder how the residents within the city limits would like it if Sam Jones decided to redraw the lines and excluded their neighborhoods and only keep the businesses without letting them vote.  He would probably do that if he could get away with it.  There is no difference really.

The funny thing is that to get to this “cherry-picked” neighborhood King’s Branch off of Moffett Road, the City is having to go through an older, established area with residents who have lived there for years.  They OPPOSE annexation!  They are even signing petitions AGAINST Mobile’s annexation efforts in their neighborhood.

All of the local business owners that I have talked to on Moffett Road are HOT (and not in a good way) about what Mobile is doing.  Unfortunately, they have their businesses there and do not live there so, “logically” for Sam Jones they do not have a voice and cannot vote.

I hope that if the Mobile City Council is stupid enough to pass the referendums for these annexation areas in their meeting tomorrow morning, that they will have to eat their words and stand in front of their constituents and have their butts booted out of office in the next election.

That’s the whole problem with this annexation.  The “yes” vote has already been cherry-picked and included within the annexation lines.  Those already living in the city either do not care, or do not understand this infringement on individual rights.
. If our county representatives do not stand up for us on this one, it will have to be battled in court!

I heard Sam Jones try to sugar coat the school board, saying they would make sure they didn’t lose any money, blah, blah, blah. I hope they are not that naive, to think that TK is going to be a big money maker for Mobile. If that was the case-Sam would be courting the businesses up 43-what’s left of them. The sad fact is, that most of the industry up there is dead or dying. This new steel mill is right on the Washington Co line, just a few miles from Jackson. If I was going to move here and work at the steel mill, would I want to live in Mt. Vernon, or Jackson? Would I want to drive 20-30minutes to Saraland, and an hour to Mobile, or drive 15 minutes to Jackson? Gee, tough choice-NOT! This steel mill is NOT going to benefit Mobile to the extent that he claims. I give it 10 years, tops, after it opens, before it is another deserted shell, like all the other plants that way.

If the city council votes in favor of this annexation as it stands now, they should each be named in the forthcoming lawsuits.  I wonder if they could be forced to pay for the litigation, if the lawsuit against them is won?