Comments on: Langford Wins Birmingham Mayorship

by: Danny

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:47:27 +0000

William, I would like to have done that already but have been too busy elsewhere. I still would enjoy it.

Re comments 7 & 9… as Roy pointed out, if every voter who didn’t vote for Langford voted for Cooper, Langford would still be the winner with more than 50% of the vote.

by: Roy

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:42:10 +0000

OK, it can’t be Valerie’s fault. Even if everybody who voted for Abbott instead voted for Cooper, Langford still has 50.3% of the vote.

by: comment

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:16:47 +0000

thanks Valerie Abbott for electing Larry

by: William Wyatt Wallace

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:15:57 +0000

Somebody with some free time should figure out exactly how much money was spent/raised per vote, because Carole Smitherman was definitely pulling and and putting out some money to only get 3% of the vote.

by: OldCloverdale

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:17:05 +0000

Looks to me like 2,752 votes were wasted on the bottom six candidates.

I wonder how many would’ve voted for Cooper.

by: William Wyatt Wallace

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:15:33 +0000

Yea I can’t believe how open it is that Langford got an apartment just for the sake of having a birmingham address and still managed to get elected, glad I don’t live in Birmingham.

by: random comment

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:48:40 +0000

Birmingham continues its slide into corruption.

by: ALmod

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:38:03 +0000

The man’s most recent and most notable accomplishments are raising taxes, building a broke theme park, helping to screw up a sewer system, boycotting Saks, and losing one of Jefferson County’s oldest and most notable businesses. Let’s not forget that he was mayor of Fairfield when we got Richard M. Scrushy Parkway. You like how Fairfield looks and functions? That will be Birmingham in 10 years. He’ll do SOMETHING, alright. And if we thought Bernard Kincaid didn’t play well with others, wait until you see Larry Langford.

The people that I truly fear for are those like my husband who work in Birmingham but do not live there. They can’t vote, but I assure you that they’ll be affected. Langford is guaranteed to raise some taxes in the name of some swell-sounding but ill-fated entitlement, and the voters of Birmingham will go right along with it. My guess is that he’ll go after sales tax and/or the occupational tax first. (Because the best people to tax are the ones who can’t do anything about it by voting against you.) Meanwhile, the commute to Birmingham will be that much more dangerous, because Langford doesn’t exactly have a stellar record when it comes to curbing crime. Langford’s specialties are taxes, entitlements, and business endeavors that should be privatized.

I wouldn’t be so disturbed if I weren’t aware of Langford’s real motives. He only became a Birmingham resident so that he could run for mayor, which says that he’s using the city as a political step stool toward a gubernatorial run. While I doubt that he’ll come close to the governor’s seat, the last thing Birmingham needs is a mayor who isn’t there for the sole purpose of bettering Birmingham.

by: Brian

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:50:55 +0000

Just when you think things can’t get any worse in Birmingham… They elect Langford as mayor. Brilliant.

by: Will

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:49:26 +0000

So, let’s see. Langford wins, gets indicted, is convicted, is removed from office, making Carole Smitherman the mayor. The next few months should prove very interesting.