This Explains the "Missing" 40K in Muscle Shoals...

 

...and you can thank Mike Lockhart for it.

A few months ago, a friend asked us if we could find out what happened to $40,000.00 in grant money to Muscle Shoals for a veterans' memorial. It seems Lockhart was denying knowledge of it, at least to her. Below are some interesting thoughts and ideas that explain the "missing" money among other things:

Hate elections and campaigns? You're not alone.

Think of the 4 year election cycle as:

1. The elected officials come out of their hiding places and run ads telling you what they "are going to do"

2. The elected officials may, or may not, start returning calls (the ones you placed the past 4 years that have not been acknowledged)

3. You may see some street paving and hear promises of great things to come - November 1st maybe?

4. There is a sudden flurry at city hall to share fabricated documents and other information

There are other tell-tell signs from incumbents.

In Muscle Shoals, the flurry of activity centers around the resurrection of projects that have been on hold for at least 5 years. One in particular is a Veterans Memorial. Before David Bradford retired from politics as our Mayor, the past city council approved an earmark of somewhere around $40,000.00 for a Veterans Memorial with the construction to be in 2020-2021. The money was reserved and was promised to the wonderful veterans of our great city. However, the current mayor (who voted to build the Veterans Memorial) in 2020 did nothing to fulfill that promise. Quite the contrary, Mr. Lockhart in the summer of 2025 has used "a"  Veterans Memorial as a campaign platform in hopes none of us remember the facts. How embarrassing that anyone would insult our veterans with the bait and switch for a political office. Our veterans deserve respect and honor, just as they sacrificed and fought for our freedoms - even Mike Lockhart's freedom to misrepresent this project for his own political posturing.

Interesting facts have emerged after Caitlyn Burns, who professes to be an authority on business and economic development, chastised candidates for not consulting with her and some guy named SEDA for their expert guidance. I'm not sure her "expertise" is what we need, but she could surprise me.

Given the expensive projects this mayor and city council are proposing, you would think Ms Burns would stress the importance to them to spend their money in Muscle Shoals and Colbert County to support local businesses and increase the tax base. NATTA. Councilman Willies Henry Thompson has spent all his campaign funds outside of Muscle Shoals AND Colbert County. Willies has spent thousands of dollars (including sales tax) to a company in Scottsboro, Alabama and another in Lawrenceburg Tennessee (but has a Florence, AL p.o. box). You need only check his finance campaign reports on the secretary of state website. Scottsboro city hall is probably laughing all the way to the bank with the sales tax from people like Willies Thompson. Mr. Lockhart has spent thousands on a young lady that works at the chamber that you and I help finance. Sorry Muscle Shoals & Colbert County, you lose again.

What's with the sudden activity of moving months and years old mounds of rat infested trees and debris? Maybe they will get to cleaning out culverts and drainage ditches in the next week and half while the heat is on them before the election. 

Don't expect any of your phone calls to the mayor or council members to be returned. That, I'm pretty sure is not gonna happen. You can expect more radical, far left liberals to continue to squeal and cry foul if anyone - candidates, you, me, the good Lord himself, dares to voice our opinions. Those who have taken to social media with the most irrational and threatening posts exhibit signs of psychotic paranoia with no chance of logic becoming rooted in their thought process. It's quite obvious people are scrambling to protect their playground and jobs with the status quo. God bless them, I am not sure my saying grace over them will come close to solving their hatred.  Us living rent free in their heads can't be good for their health. 

On a parting note. I believe the old timers say that Caitlyn Burns is the same person that was involved with a Brian Keith Robinson aka Dream Vision when she had a little law office in Sheffield.  Something about forging Mr Robinson's name (or one of the scammers) on legal documents before Robinson was sued by the Alabama Securities Commission around 2015 for a money scheme that cost a lot of business people in the Shoals big money? DREAM VISION. But that was shortly before she was hired as the Shoals Chamber director and became an authority on business and economic development. Of course, I'm sure her stance on this is one of being taken advantage of - does that sound a little familiar with what she is trying to do to us? The old "Trust me", I'm an expert and I wouldn't steer you wrong. Or like an agent that shows up at your door with a "Hi, I'm from the IRS, and I'm here to HELP YOU."  Run Forrest Run.

Lessons we learn from politics are that people who have a lot to lose squeal the loudest.and threaten innocent citizens that dare to ask questions. The people with the most to hide don't like to answer questions or produce documents. 

We the people see through the smoke and mirror politics.We are not fools.The emperor does not have any clothes on. Vote Muscle Shoals.