Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and CHEVROLETS

 

These days, it's hard to go shopping without passing a table with donation buckets set out to help send the area kids to their little league baseball playoffs. I've always been one to throw a few bills in the bucket and encourage the kids.

Since we have little or no control over how our tax dollars are spent - or wasted - I will rethink ever contributing to these kids again after the past weekend vacations taken by Muscle Shoals mayor and several others at our expense.

Last weekend, some of the boy's teams from Muscle Shoals City Recreation were in playoffs in Atlanta - home of the Braves.The City Council donated money to their expenses, but they didn't say anything about paying for the Mayor, City Clerk, Recreation Dept. Manager and one of the Rec Employees to go to Atlanta for a weekend vacation at our expense! City clerk Brittany Walters had a child playing and we're sure the family enjoyed the trip riding in luxury in the new $60,000.00 City Clerk office Chevrolet Tahoe. Maybe it came with a cooler of hotdogs and apple pies.

There were at least 3 CITY CHEVROLET TAHOES headed east to spend our tax dollars. The Mayor, Brittany Walters and Rec Dept Manager Wooddall all drove each of the $60,000.00 Chevrolet Tahoes. There was no car pooling since naturally, they wanted their families to benefit from our tax dollars too.We heard the lame excuse of "supporting our kids". Funny thing, I haven't seen Lockhart and his wife sitting in the stands in our parks at every game while the parents, grandparents, and others PAY to get in the park to "support our kids".

They spend like drunken sailors while cutting the library funding, overtime in the police department & fire department, not repairing equipment in the street department and most heinous of all is how this mayor and city clerk have been cutting the pay and benefits of employees.

So, $180,000.00 worth of Chevrolet Tahoe vehicles were on the road all weekend to send our money to Atlanta Georgia.

Way to go Mikey - We will send you on an extended vacation after the election next year and you can take your friends Walters and Wooddall with you - at your expense.

VOTE 2025 - STOP THE ABUSE OF OUR TAX DOLLARS AND THE EMPLOYEES.