Alabamians Fear Roy Moore Is Bad For Business
Back in September, then-Birmingham, Ala., Mayor William Bell and other elected officials stood before the media in a downtown park.
"I know everyone's gotten a lot of call[s] about this box in the background," Bell told them.
The box towering over them is made up like a package from Amazon. It was part of Birmingham's campaign to land Amazon's proposed second headquarters.
The city might be a long shot, but the state has landed many big names in the automotive industry and advanced manufacturing including Mercedes, Honda and Airbus. State economic development leaders promote Alabama as a low-tax state with a low cost of living.
But for weeks, much of the news from Alabama has been about Senate candidate Roy Moore. He has denied allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his 30s. Some in Alabama's business community fear the Moore controversy will make recruiting companies and jobs to the state more difficult.
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/03/567797304/alabamians-fear-roy-moore-is-bad-for-business
janterry
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Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Monument - https://www.nps.gov/bicr/index.htm
Sam McGee
(347 posts)Alabama Civil Rights Trail
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Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
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Iahotdog
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(4,894 posts)do after the election.
gademocrat7
(10,678 posts)Revenues will decline.
klook
(12,171 posts)whose family has been vacationing in Bon Secour and on Dauphin Island since she was a kid. They're sending letters to the rental cos. they deal with, as we'll as other local businesses, to tell them if Moore is elected they're never coming back.
world wide wally
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Aristus
(66,481 posts)Alabama for a while.
That's okay. Teenage girls don't usually buy very much stuff...