WE WERE WONDERING....V
11-8-06
*Why Mayor Perkins has said nothing about 4 people being shot in Selma's police jurisdiction in the past couple of weeks??? Remember when Bennie Ruth Crenshaw's sister was mugged a couple weeks ago, the Mayor went into a tirade at the City Council about cowards mugging women! Is that any worse than 4 people getting shot OR IS CRENSHAW'S SISTER MORE IMPORTANT TO PERKINS THAN THE LIVES OF OTHER SELMA CITIZENS??? Can we say "double standard"?
*WHY Larry Striplin won't end this controversy over the city paying him $1 million for land he paid $540 thousand for some 23 years ago. ADDING property taxes, he has a little less than $600,000 tied up in the land. BESIDES THAT, NOONE ELSE IS INTERESTED IN BUYING IT...except Perkins.
*WHY it would not be a VIOLATION OF THE ETHICS ACT for Jean Martin to vote to buy the land from Striplin after he had taken her out to his mansion for the day??? We know that Jean Martin is getting dozens of phone calls, letters, and contacts FROM HER CONSTITUIENTS IN WARD 3 ASKING HER NOT TO SPEND THIS $1 MILLION FOR WHO KNOWS WHAT? We hope she will REPRESENT HER CONSTITUIENT'S VIEWS ON THIS ONE and not be intimidated by Perkins!!!
*WHY MAYOR PERKINS WON'T TELL THE PUBLIC WHAT HE REALLY WANTS TO DO WITH THE LAND? It is obvious that (1) a school WILL NOT be built there because the Superintendent and School Board nor the State Department of Education have decided if a new school should be built and (2) a cemetery probably won't be built in an area where 10% of the land is in a flood plain. WE BELIEVE that PERKINS PLANS TO BUILD ANOTHER LOW RENT OR NO RENT SUBSIDIZED HOUSING PROJECT ON THE LAND, MOVE MORE INDIGENT PEOPLE INTO SELMA WHO WILL VOTE FOR HIM AND WHO WILL FURTHER DRAIN THE SOCIAL SERVICES SYSTEM IN THE CITY...Almost 40% of Selma's population lives in free or subsidized housing...There are more than 600 units of conventional low rent housing in the city and more than 1200 Section 8 housing units, apartments, etc in Selma. Perkins sincerely believes that city government exists to care for people from the womb to the tomb...THAT IS WHY CRIME IS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE TO HIM AND TRUSTBUILD IS OF THE GREATEST IMPORTANCE TO HIM.
*WHY Bennie Ruth Crenshaw, who sometimes really seems evil and full of hate for whites, thinks she owns City Hall, even to the point of telling some citizens a short time ago that City Halls was her turf and to get out!
*WHY the Selma Police Department has planned 2 raids on the 12 Stone on Water Ave and both times, THE PLACE WAS CLOSED! Are drugs being sold there? Who is tipping them off that the police are coming? EITHER JIMMY MARTIN SHOULD STOP THESE LEAKS OR HE SHOULD BE FIRED!!
*WHY THE MAYOR HASN'T TOLD ANYONE HE IS PLANNING TO PURCHASE THE OLD WAL-MART PROPERTY ON HIGHLAND AVE FROM CLIFF (THE OUT OF TOWN HOMEBOY) ALBRIGHT'S GROUP AS THE ENTRANCE WAY INTO THE STRIPLIN LAND.
