Two Florence Districts Have No Incumbent

 

If you live in Districts 3 or 5 in Florence, you won't have the chance to vote for the incumbent. In District 3, Bill Griffin is running for mayor.

In District 5, long-time member Blake Edwards, who made his initial mark on City politics supporting a new Walmart, has chosen not to run. We always felt Blake was too status quo about most situations in Florence, but he will be missed.

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We regularly have readers ask us what district they live in. Many are not newcomers, but apparently have never taken an interest in City politics before. 

Simply go to this site and enter address. Good luck and keep informed:

Where Do I Vote?

A “Marquis Organization?”

The third candidate for new director of Florence-Lauderdale Tourism Director has stated the current tourism staff is considered a “marquis organization.” That sounds very nice, but what the heck is it? Google couldn't tell us, even when we decided the TD had probably mis-transcribed “marquee.”

Who knows? Florence may have several marquis organizations just lying around and no one knows about it.

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More grandstanding? It was highly publicized when our physician governor chose to stop payments to Planned Parenthood. We agreed with his decision.

However, it seems that in the past two years our state has paid only a few thousand to that organization and none of that was even slightly related to abortions.

We used to hear “If it feels good, do it.” Now it would seem those in Montgomery subscribe to the mantra, “If it sounds good, say it.”

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So Blake Edwards wants a smaller animal shelter. Well, we've always heard he's so great with saving money...



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Blake Edwards Has Some Interesting Opposition

Florence District Five councilman Blake Edwards, co-owner of Hospice of Tennessee Valley, will be having some interesting opposition next year. A Florence youth, who will barely be the required 18 years of age by the 2016 election, will be opposing first time councilman Edwards.

Three years ago Edwards, son of a late long-time city administer, narrowly defeated Coy Bramlett to win his seat in a district rife with controversy over a new Walmart. Edwards has also faced criticism for numerous lawsuits against his hospice during the past four years.

Does Florence High student Chase Holcombe have the proverbial snowball's chance? Anything is possible. Edwards has not yet announced that he will seek a second term, and there's certainly plenty of time for others to announce their candidacy.

It looks like it will be an interesting election...

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We had only just declared J. Redmon missing in action on our restaurant blog when he posted a most interesting review:

The French Quarter

As with all our blogs, rebuttals and comments are welcome.

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We're waiting for Cherry Pitts to send us her rebuttal to some extremely caustic criticism of her review of the The Crazy Chicken; however, we pass that way frequently and have never seen a deck, nor did Cherry mention one in her review. We made a point to look yesterday...no deck in sight. Perhaps it's around back?

We wish the small cafe' the best of luck in a hard market.

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