Sen. April Weaver Needs to Brush up on her Topic/Rep. Ed Oliver Needs to Go

 

April Weaver is a State Senator from Alabaster. Like many others, Ms. Weaver has jumped on the "Good Time" band wagon. This past week, her opinion on the state's correctional incentive time law was featured in several state political publications.

That law is currently in such a state of flux that the end result may be a deep six of the law altogether. Our problem with Ms. Weaver is that she didn't care enough to check her facts. She claims the name of the program was changed at some point from Correctional Incentive Time to Good Time. No, it wasn't. We're guessing most state lawmakers can't pronounce words of more than two syllables and simply use the latter term instead.

Weaver also claims that the program begins upon day one of incarceration. In truth, it begins on day 31. While it's a small error, it proves the State Senator simply decided to write something without checking her facts.

That leads to State Representative Ed Oliver from Dadeville. He recently took it upon himself to claim thefts of supplies at a VA home in his district. He then took it a step farther and implied nurses had been euthanizing patients. We sincerely hope the nurses working at the Bill Nichols Home in Alexander City are suing him for whatever paltry life savings he may have accumulated.

Our state deserves better. If we don't demand improvement in our representatives, we're not going to get it.