BARACK OBAMA DAY (IN ALABAMA?)

[Tarheel]

This might be the start of a trend.

From Breitbart.com and al-AP, all emphasis is my own:

Alabama County sets 'Barack Obama Day' as New Holiday 
 
Dec 3 12:42 PM
 
MARION, Ala. (AP) - A small central Alabama county whose mainly black residents gave Barack Obama more than 70 percent of the vote on Election Day has created an annual holiday in honor of the president-elect. The Perry County Commission voted 4 to 1 to observe the second Monday in November as "The Barack Obama Day." County offices will close and its roughly 40 workers will get a paid holiday.

The sponsoring commissioner, Albert Turner Jr., said the holiday is meant to highlight the Democratic president-elect's victory as a way to give people faith that difficult goals can be achieved.

The majority of the county's 12,000 residents are black.

The county commission's three black members and one of its two white members voted for the resolution.

Commissioner Brett Harrison said Wednesday he voted against the resolution because of the holiday costs to the county, which has a $2.2 million annual payroll and is one of the poorest in the state. He said closing the courthouse would also idle some state employees.

"I'm a Democrat, but just in these financial times, it's not using the county's money wisely," Harrison told The Associated Press by phone Wednesday. "The recognition is certainly well-founded."

Turner said copies of the resolution, adopted at a Nov. 25 meeting, have been mailed to Obama and his transition team.

An Associated Press exit poll found black voters in Alabama almost universally supported Obama while more than eight in 10 whites backed Republican John McCain. McCain carried the state with 60 percent of the vote.

The link:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94RBG180&show_article=1

[Tarheel]

Can I assume there are no X'ers living in this county?  Just curious.

[CCTAU]

I hunt in Marion and I can tell you there are very few white folks. The blacks in charge are corrupt and intent on insuring that blacks get theirs first. I can't tell you how many times our hunting shack has been robbed. Everyone in the community can tell you who did it, yet no one will do anything about it. If you want anything done you have to grease the palm of the commissioner (Turner) involved. The ONLY thing Marion has going for it is MMI and Judson College. Other than that, it pretty much is a welfare town. So it's no wonder they come up with something like this. It's one of those places where if you stop for gas, you might want to have your gun handy. Great hunting though. Beautiful country.

[Tarheel]

I hunt in Marion and I can tell you there are very few white folks. The blacks in charge are corrupt and intent on insuring that blacks get theirs first. I can't tell you how many times our hunting shack has been robbed. Everyone in the community can tell you who did it, yet no one will do anything about it. If you want anything done you have to grease the palm of the commissioner (Turner) involved. The ONLY thing Marion has going for it is MMI and Judson College. Other than that, it pretty much is a welfare town. So it's no wonder they come up with something like this. It's one of those places where if you stop for gas, you might want to have your gun handy. Great hunting though. Beautiful country.

Sounds like The City of Atlanta ain't got nothin' on Marion; although I'll lay wager that Birmingham could beat even Marion for political corruption from what news I gather on this board.