Hi stonecutter—I tell you, I was absolutely appalled at the Editorial in the Press-Register on Oct 7.  How unfortunate that we have a news media outlet that is so biased!  Can you imagine, the Press-Register ridiculed our elected officials for being honest, having integrity & guts?  Isn’t that the most insane thing you’ve ever heard of?  What the Press-Register should have done is ridicule the City of Mobile for denying so many people the right to vote!
My sincere appreciation to all of our elected officials for being the HONEST, MORALE, and ETHICAL individuals that they are!  We need more people like YOU in our local governments!

Now that the voting is over.  I am overjoyed with the turnout we had in the Moffett Road area, and that we were able to defeat the City of Mobile’s unethical, immoral (an possibly illegal - we’ll see what the Alabama Supreme Court has to say soon on this) denial of the right to vote to most of the citizens living in the affected area.  I’m very grateful to our elected representatives that joined with us to protest the unfair annexation attempt.  Every one of them needs to be re-elected and kept in office because they did what we elected them to do!!  I’m only sorry the majority of residents in the Tillman’s Corner/Theodore area lost due to being denied the right to vote because of The City of Mobile’s underhanded gerrymandering of the election.  Now maybe we can get on with the incorporation of the City of Semmes that has been in the planning stage for months.  Thanks to Steve Nodine, Sam Cochran, Mike Dean, Chad Fincher, Jack Tillman, Ken Megginson & all our other supporters!!!

Everyone needs to make a list of names that have unduly influenced this pillaging of Mobile County and then track their political careers.  That includes lawyers, judges and golf buddies!

What Sam Jones is doing is divisive. Instead of promoting citizens of all races, creeds and genders to work together and pull together in these difficult times, he’s walling off black neighborhoods with gerrymandered lines, promising them the world (that he cannot keep). Once these black citizens vote his way and he has income from the businesses he coveted, he ignores them.
This is carpetbagging at its worst.
Slavery was abolished in 1865.
Equal rights was passed in the mid 1960’s.
Mr. Jones and his overseerers (like Mr. Bacon) are doing a great disservice to the black community of this area.
There should be a black leader who stands up for the people and exposes this for the greed and corruption that it is. But they are probably promised the world too, or promised power/money for bringing in the votes.

Are the names and addresses of registered voters in these targeted areas a matter of public record?

“A Change You Can Believe In”

If a white mayor tried to pull off this annexation by gerrymandering the lines to exclude predominantly black neighborhoods, there would be riots in the streets and the Fed’s would be all over this.  An incredible injustice is being done to all of the citizens of Mobile County that goes all the way to our fundamental right to vote.

I tell you what—I was with Renee, it was unbelievable.  This guy zoomed up in his car and jumped out and started running toward us, screaming and cursing at us.  Renee told him to please stop cursing us.  Then he was screaming that we were soliciting and that their neighborhood had rules that your couldn’t solicit.  We told him that we were just passing out information and were not selling anything.
Then this lady drove up in a red SUV and started yelling and screaming at us.  She accused us of being in cahoots with some guy named David that I’ve never heard of.  Then they started screaming that we stole their signs.  It was a circus to say the least. 
We left and road a few blocks and found some others that we were there with.  And both this man in his white car and this women in her red SUV came up again screaming at all of us. 
Anyway, I just think that it’s funny that I can’t find anything in their subdivision rules that says we can’t talk to the residents.

You can go to http://probate.mobilecountyal.gov/ and on the left side of the page and click on “Records Search”—then when the new page opens up, click on “Search Real Property Records”.

Then under “Name Search” type in Kings Branch and search (top right corner).  A list of 79 items will come up—choose the PDF for the 3rd one on the list “RESTRICTIONS, RELEASE OR AMENDMENT OF SAME” and you’ll see the restrictions for this neighborhood.

I cannot find anything about “solicting” mentioned at all in this document.  Also, noteworthy, is the statement that an amendments have to be filed with the Probate Court.  I do not see any amendments that have been filed.  So, I’m thinking this is the current record.

You will have to “login”—it’s easy to get a login if you don’t already have one.

Renee, if I had a cell phone with me when someone did what Mr. Bacon (president of the King’s Branch Homeowner’s Assoc. and the other big guy, I would have called MPD right then and there.  What the first one did to you is assault under the law.  You had every right to be there, and he had no right to verbally assault you in public.  The president of a homeowner’s association also has no say over how the rest of the homeowners vote.  I’m not sure if they have any covenants against political signs, but if there were any pro-annexation signs, then he to is opening himself to a lawsuit.  He can do what he wants in his yard, but has no legal standing to tell others what to do outside of possibly some covenants against any political signs in the neighborhood.  I think I would have my attorney make a call to Mr. Bacon first thing tomorrow if you say any pro-annexations signs in the neighborhood at all!

There should be a law against a president of a homeowner’s assn who doesn’t allow his neighbors the freedom to choose; the freedom to weigh all the facts (not just the facts he allows into the neighborhood). I feel sorry for his neighbors. I certainly wouldn’t want to live in a neighborhood where I didn’t have basic American rights, such as the right to plant a political sign in a yard that I own and pay for with my own money.
Sounds like the Gestapo, to me!
Is this what Sam Jones ultimately wants of all the citizens he’s land-grabbing? Complete control over their votes and no “choice”?
UNAMERICAN!