Alabama’s Priorities
Today we can vividly see two of Alabama’s top priorities: college football and cowering from winter weather.
This article in the Huntsville Times reveals that several local government meetings have been postponed or canceled so that attendees can watch Alabama play in the BCS national championship game. This is not the way a leader leads, and certainly not how elected or appointed public servants should lead. Sometimes leaders don’t get to have all the fun that the troops have. Sometimes you have to work weekends. Sometimes you have to work during the national championship game. If you’ve been elected or appointed to perform work for citizens and you shrug it because of a football game then I question whether you should hold office.
Meanwhile, we can go back to our other top priority, fearing and obsessing over every detail of winter weather. Somewhere in the upper midwest this morning a school bus accumulated more snow on it’s hood during the drive to school than we’ll see all winter. Life continued as normal. We, however, will go ahead and close everything based only on a forecast.
Grow a pair, Alabama. And if you can’t, you can borrow mine.
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