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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I had to get some clarification and what the heck
is going on with the Birmingham Waterworks Board? Now they
sold their assets to the City of Birmingham. Make it
make sense? One of the Gavan joins US now state representative,
welcome in Wandalon.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thank you so much. What do you mean, what did
they what did they sell? What they sell?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Make it make sense?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I am I can't even explain it, and I'm rarely
at a.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Loss of words.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
At two forty five, the governor of the state of
Alabama signed a bill that was passed into legislation. I
did not support it, but at the end of the day,
Senate Field three point thirty is law that at the
point it was signed, dismantled the Birmingham Waterworks Board.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
As it was.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I did not support the legislation, but the realization is
it was signed. All day yesterday, Steve Marshall, the Attorney General,
and lawyers from across the state of Alabama were working
to make sure that whatever the governor signed was accurate,
was in law. I'm not sure why they had the meeting.
(01:14):
I called the general manager. I said, please don't this
is embarrassing. We're down here saying that everything that the
Republicans has said about.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The appointments from the city over the years.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
They criticized you all as being competent. Please don't do
this right the bill speaks unless it is overturned by
the courts. Do not do this as a hail mary
to appear as if the City of Birmingham administration has
done something.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You do whatever to stop it.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Don't do it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
This is embarrassing. They want to hand on with the meeting.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You kind of threw this out there the other day
when you said don't do this. Mayor wood Fland with
his lawsuit, the hail mary and last ditch effort to
stop the process. The mayor filed a lawsuit against covernor
Ivy to try and stop this process. Wow, a day
late and a dollar short, this train's already left the station.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Well, I want to be clear. I never said anyone's name.
I was asked the general question.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I always try to do. Make sure I'm in line. JT.
Listen at the end of it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Have a lawsuit right here where the mayor filed a
lawsuit against government.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I understand they filed it, and my I did, I said,
made a comment at the end of the day JT.
This is one time I am totally at a loss,
and it was unnecessary last night to do that. You know,
you had a shot, possibly if the court would overturn it.
Had this been done previous to the Governor's signature, the
(02:45):
board stopped and failed to exist at two forty five yesterday.
Why would you do what you did to give the
appearance as if you all or somebody is working and
attempted to stop it. This is ridiculous, ridiculousness, And I
(03:05):
don't care who tweets me, who criticizes me, who messages me,
who does a meme of me.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I am going to be for what's right.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Yesterday was unnecessary at six fifteen unless they can show
me something different.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It was an.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Attempt once again to give the appearance that someone is
doing something when they are doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And they did not act.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Someone at the city on three twenty eight, twenty five,
that is March twenty, twenty twenty five, knew.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That this bill was circulating.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
No one acted, no one responded until April twenty second,
when I held a town hall meeting and emergency.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Meeting to discuss this.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
And it was at that time jat at fifteen minutes
to my meeting.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, it's like amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's like they show up at your door with a warrant.
They knock on your door, and at the last minute,
after you and your attorney have agreed to, you know,
to follow the law, you're going to run out the
back door and try and run I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Or after you're criticized so bad. This is ridiculous and
it's not fair to the citizens.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well, this is going to be challenged obviously. I mean,
you can selling the assets. Well, I don't even know
what that means. You know, what are you talking about.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
There is no sale of assets when you are not
a board to authorize the sale.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
There's no way it's going to stand. Not only that,
let me just say this.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
At the end of the day, whether you like decisions
of the court or not, there are certain things that
when you go before the court that are so precise
that the interpretation is Listen, however they do this, they
can do it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
My whole thing is.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
That if I'm down in Montgomery, please Lord, as democracy
set sail every day we wake up, I want to
do what's right.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Listen. I cannot make this up. JT.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I am very seldomly at a loss of words, but
I will simply say to you, if you allow me
to say this to the listening audience, I'm disappointed because
someone knew and failed to act before the ball dropped
and everyone started criticizing.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
At the end of the day, what they did was
played into the hands of those my colleagues who have
questioned the competency of these processes, of these appointments.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
And I'll say this this is look at the bill JT.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
You'll notice that under the appointments that will go to
the City of Birmingham, I don't think they listed a
criteria for those two appointments directly. Why because the one
of the criticisms has been that the people they have
been appointing should probably have not been appointed anyway. So
they didn't put a criteria because they know they're just
gonna point. It's gonna be poolery. I'm sorry, I know
(05:59):
I'm gonna beize, but I'm going to right.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I knew I could get the truth out of you.
I knew you'd tell it like it is, and you
did once again. And I appreciate you wandering and I'm
up against the clock, but we're going to follow this
for sure, as you're right, it's illegal what they did.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You can't do it. It's no longer yours to sell.
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
The governor has already signed the law, so it's going
to be blown up in the courts and it'll go
back to where it needs to go. And this thing
will get worked out sooner or later. But will the
tom foolery is still going on behind the scenes around
the Birmingham water Works boarding anybody shocked.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Thank you, Andoal and I appreciate you all right.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Thank you
I had to get some clarification and what the heck
is going on with the Birmingham Waterworks Board? Now they
sold their assets to the City of Birmingham. Make it
make sense? One of the Gavan joins US now state representative,
welcome in Wandalon.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thank you so much. What do you mean, what did
they what did they sell? What they sell?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Make it make sense?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I am I can't even explain it, and I'm rarely
at a.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Loss of words.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
At two forty five, the governor of the state of
Alabama signed a bill that was passed into legislation. I
did not support it, but at the end of the day,
Senate Field three point thirty is law that at the
point it was signed, dismantled the Birmingham Waterworks Board.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
As it was.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I did not support the legislation, but the realization is
it was signed. All day yesterday, Steve Marshall, the Attorney General,
and lawyers from across the state of Alabama were working
to make sure that whatever the governor signed was accurate,
was in law. I'm not sure why they had the meeting.
(01:14):
I called the general manager. I said, please don't this
is embarrassing. We're down here saying that everything that the
Republicans has said about.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
The appointments from the city over the years.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
They criticized you all as being competent. Please don't do
this right the bill speaks unless it is overturned by
the courts. Do not do this as a hail mary
to appear as if the City of Birmingham administration has
done something.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You do whatever to stop it.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Don't do it.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
This is embarrassing. They want to hand on with the meeting.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You kind of threw this out there the other day
when you said don't do this. Mayor wood Fland with
his lawsuit, the hail mary and last ditch effort to
stop the process. The mayor filed a lawsuit against covernor
Ivy to try and stop this process. Wow, a day
late and a dollar short, this train's already left the station.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Well, I want to be clear. I never said anyone's name.
I was asked the general question.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I always try to do. Make sure I'm in line. JT.
Listen at the end of it.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Have a lawsuit right here where the mayor filed a
lawsuit against government.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I understand they filed it, and my I did, I said,
made a comment at the end of the day JT.
This is one time I am totally at a loss,
and it was unnecessary last night to do that. You know,
you had a shot, possibly if the court would overturn it.
Had this been done previous to the Governor's signature, the
(02:45):
board stopped and failed to exist at two forty five yesterday.
Why would you do what you did to give the
appearance as if you all or somebody is working and
attempted to stop it. This is ridiculous, ridiculousness, And I
(03:05):
don't care who tweets me, who criticizes me, who messages me,
who does a meme of me.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I am going to be for what's right.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Yesterday was unnecessary at six fifteen unless they can show
me something different.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It was an.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Attempt once again to give the appearance that someone is
doing something when they are doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And they did not act.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Someone at the city on three twenty eight, twenty five,
that is March twenty, twenty twenty five, knew.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
That this bill was circulating.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
No one acted, no one responded until April twenty second,
when I held a town hall meeting and emergency.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Meeting to discuss this.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
And it was at that time jat at fifteen minutes
to my meeting.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah, it's like amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's like they show up at your door with a warrant.
They knock on your door, and at the last minute,
after you and your attorney have agreed to, you know,
to follow the law, you're going to run out the
back door and try and run I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Or after you're criticized so bad. This is ridiculous and
it's not fair to the citizens.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well, this is going to be challenged obviously. I mean,
you can selling the assets. Well, I don't even know
what that means. You know, what are you talking about.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
There is no sale of assets when you are not
a board to authorize the sale.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
There's no way it's going to stand. Not only that,
let me just say this.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
At the end of the day, whether you like decisions
of the court or not, there are certain things that
when you go before the court that are so precise
that the interpretation is Listen, however they do this, they
can do it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
My whole thing is.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
That if I'm down in Montgomery, please Lord, as democracy
set sail every day we wake up, I want to
do what's right.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Listen. I cannot make this up. JT.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I am very seldomly at a loss of words, but
I will simply say to you, if you allow me
to say this to the listening audience, I'm disappointed because
someone knew and failed to act before the ball dropped
and everyone started criticizing.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
At the end of the day, what they did was
played into the hands of those my colleagues who have
questioned the competency of these processes, of these appointments.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
And I'll say this this is look at the bill JT.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
You'll notice that under the appointments that will go to
the City of Birmingham, I don't think they listed a
criteria for those two appointments directly. Why because the one
of the criticisms has been that the people they have
been appointing should probably have not been appointed anyway. So
they didn't put a criteria because they know they're just
gonna point. It's gonna be poolery. I'm sorry, I know
(05:59):
I'm gonna beize, but I'm going to right.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
I knew I could get the truth out of you.
I knew you'd tell it like it is, and you
did once again. And I appreciate you wandering and I'm
up against the clock, but we're going to follow this
for sure, as you're right, it's illegal what they did.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You can't do it. It's no longer yours to sell.
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
The governor has already signed the law, so it's going
to be blown up in the courts and it'll go
back to where it needs to go. And this thing
will get worked out sooner or later. But will the
tom foolery is still going on behind the scenes around
the Birmingham water Works boarding anybody shocked.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Thank you, Andoal and I appreciate you all right.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Thank you
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