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Name:   Contender - Email Member
Subject:   Ivan / Bridge
Date:   2/28/2006 10:06:13 AM

Dear Ivan.
I forgot to tell You that the money that they will use to build the bridge came from a sales tax that they put on the people of the county without telling them what it was for.
Their schools needs help.
Their Police Dept. needs help
Their fire dept. needs help
Their road Dept. needs help.
Their People need a break
do they help? No they tax them and want to build a bridge because the owner of the fertilizer Plant wanted a short cut to Hwy65. and that is all.
so instead of it comming out of His pocket, They TAXED the POOR.
I just thought You might want to know this tid bit. Remember the poor don't want this bridge either.
Contender



Name:   BIGWORMK - Email Member
Subject:   Ivan / Bridge
Date:   6/24/2007 8:39:31 PM

I KNOW I'M A YEAR AND A HALF LATE ON THIS ONE, BUT JIMMY PURSELL WOULD LOVE THAT BRIDGE, NO DOUBT, BUT IT'S NOT JUST A DIRECT LINE FOR TRUCKS FROM SYLACAUGA..SINCE THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE WAS POSTED, THE PURSELL'S SOLD THE FERTILIZER BUSINESS AND NOW SOLELY RUN THE FARMLINKS GOLF COURSE IN FAYETTEVILLE...AS A RESIDENT OF FAYETTEVILLE, I'D LOVE THE BRIDGE, IT'D CUT MY DRIVE TO WORK TO B'HAM BY 20 MIN. A DAY...AND IT'D RAISE MY PROPERTY VALUES EVEN HIGHER..THE REASONS YOU POST FOR OPPOSING IT ARE IDIOTIC...IF IT'D RAISE YOUR PROPERTY VALUES I'M SURE IT COULDN'T BE BUILT FAST ENOUGH...AND AS FOR THE COST, $8 MILLION, FROM BOND ISSUES THE COUNTY HAS $2.5 MILLION AND PURSELL IS SAID TO BE HELPING WITH SOME OF THE FUNDS...NOT TO MENTION THAT TALLADEGA CO. IS FOOTING THE BILL FOR THE WHOLE BRIDGE SO ANY ECONOMIC GROWTH THAT SHELBY CO. GETS FROM THIS WILL BE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR TALLADEGANS....







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