The Mayor of Tuskeegee's Comments on Bush SSI

[BamaLefty]

This quack (Democrat!) actually got on local TV and licked the feet of Bush for all of Central Alabama to see. He looked so cheesy doing it too.

But here is my real point- Why did he feel the need to do this? Tuskeegee and all of Macon County is equally Democratic as the Bronx or San Francisco. Can we get a REAL Democrat to run and level this guy? Sure, it would have no outcome on my life no matter who the mayor of Tuskegee is, but c'mon... I hate to see such a blue county have such a foolish leader. He basically endorsed the financial rape of his electorate.

And when Tuskeegee voters fire him, do you think that Bush would like appoint him as official brown noser to the President? :puke:

Macon

Kerry 82.9% -- 7,800
Bush 16.7% -- 1,570

[Frances]

1. It would be interesting to know

the story behind this.

[quaoar]

2. That would be Johnny Ford

He's a Republican. He served six terms as mayor, switched parties and served six years in the Legislature before running for mayor again last year.

[BamaLefty]

3. Really???

I thought he was a Dem? Sorry about that.

Anyway, why does he need to run as a Repub in Macon County? I would think that a conservative would be blistered there. :shrug:

[quaoar]

4. He doesn't need to be a Republican

But he's been around for so long and has been in office for so long, it didn't make any difference to voters when he switched parties.

[AlabamaYankee]

5. At least his seat stayed Democratic

He flipped to Republican while he was still in the Legislature, and the party hoped they could keep the seat by banking on low overall turnout for the special election, and getting the Repubs in the Auburn area who had been gerrymandered into the district to vote in larger numbers.

They failed miserably.

[southlandshari]

6. Party affiliation in Tuskegee

doesn't mean a whole lot. There were about 11 candidates for mayor in the last election, which Ford finally won in a run-off. The local population has not been well served by many politicians in who knows how long, regardless of whether they had a (D) or (R) after their name.

This isn't just special to Tuskegee. Lots of small towns are the same. People vote for who they know and (hopefully) who they trust.

I hope Ford will deliver on some of his promises. I work quite a bit in Tuskegee, and everyone I know (all black, but very much across the spectrum in socioeconomic class and background) there voted for him.

[southlandshari]

7. Link?

I'm not asking because I doubt you. I just have lots of friends in Tuskegee and would really like to see/hear what Ford said. I think just about every friend I have there voted for Kerry and for Ford last Fall, so this is interesting.

Ford was mayor a long, long time ago, been all over the place in the state legislature the past couple of decades or so, and just recently came back "home" to try to help his struggling town. He just won the mayor's seat a few months ago.