Sweet Home Alabama

Interesting article about the incongruity between lawmaker pay raises and other public workers.

In 2004, Allen introduced legislation to pull books with LGBTQ characters, themes and authors from school libraries, and it was this bill that set the tone for his political career.

When asked what should be done with the books, Allen said he didn’t think they should be burned, necessarily.

“I guess we dig a big hole and dump them in and bury them,” he said at the time.

Friends had to quietly explain that Allen’s bill would ban, along with works such as “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “The Color Purple,” a little best-seller called “The Holy Bible.”

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/524805

Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.

Watch the videos and listen to the audio. A couple of seconds after Perkins yells for the tow truck driver to put the truck down, there is a shout that comes from the area behind Perkins’ truck. It sounds an awful lot like, “Hey! Police!” And immediately, shots were fired at Perkins. Eighteen of them in all, by my count.

There’s a five-alarm fire raging among the kids in this state and our elected officials, from the top on down, are out back peeing on a brush fire. And missing.

Four of Alabama’s members of the House of Representatives voted yes to the resolution while three others voted no. Voting yes were Reps. Jerry Carl, R-Mobile, Mike Rogers, R- Saks, Dale Strong, R-Huntsville, and Terri A. Sewell D-Birmingham.

On the no side were Reps. Robert Aderholt, R-Haleyville, Barry Moore, R-Enterprise, and Gary Palmer, R-Hoover.

Johnson’s conviction for the killing of off-duty sheriff’s deputy William Hardy rested almost entirely on the “earwitness” testimony of a woman who claimed to be on a three-way call with Johnson and heard him confess to the killing. The woman had never met Johnson nor heard his voice, and Johnson’s attorneys, after the trial, learned that the woman had been paid $5,000 for her testimony. No physical evidence linking Johnson to the murder exists.