Again, it's amazing to me that candidates don't feel secure enough in their qualifications and ideas that they have to blatantly lie about issues affecting our city. I've been told by several citizens of Guin that one mayoral candidate claims that the Tombigbee Electric Cooperative will move outside the city if the incumbent mayor is elected. This claim is a scare tactic and has absolutely no foundation. A source close to the company has verified this to be just another falsehood used by the candidate as a way of scaring voters to elect him to office. Unfortunately, we've had to endure deception at many levels of government through the years, but that's not something we've dealt with in our community. Let's not start it now. Know the issues, know the candidates, and call them out when they attempt to pull you into their web of lies.
There's one point of clarification which needs to be made about the Magna project. There still seems to be confusion about the course Magna has chosen to take in relation to building a North American automobile manufacturer. Some believe that Magna chose the site in Virginia, who was our closest competitor during the site selection process, over our site in Guin. That is not the case at all. Magna contracts with several of the world's largest automakers to make vehicles that those automakers cannot make efficiently. In our current economy, those automakers have not yet signed contracts with Magna to build their products. Magna still believes that will happen, but not until later this year. So, no site has been selected as Magna is still working through those contracts. But, if these automakers do sign those contracts, there will be a need on Magna's part to be closer to their key customers and suppliers located in the northern part of the country. Given today's fuel prices, they can't justify shipping product 1200 miles across country. This has even knocked out the Virginia site as a possible location for their project. Plain and simple, the economy cost Guin an opportunity to bring Magna here. Nothing more.
Finally, thank you all for your interest in my site. There's been a lot of activity here this week and that's proof to me that you are concerned about the future of Guin. Please continue to pass a link to the site on to other members of our community so we can all share our ideas for a better Guin.
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Great post!!! I am glad someone is trying to keep the facts straight about the community and the election.
This is a great blog. This is my first time to visit and you can bet that I will be telling everyone in town about this blog. It is good to know that someone cares enough about this town to make sure that the facts are getting out, and I want you to know that I think you are representing your family and community very well. You have my full support and I will do my best to help you serve this city for four more years. Also, I believe that the comments from this blog need to be printed and placed in various locations around town (restaurants and DOCTOR OFFICES) so citizens can read the facts and not hear the rumors. Keep up the good work Bobby.
Thank you so much for your support.
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