7. The United Auto Workers union
admitted to unauthorized use of the University of Alabama and Auburn University trademarks in their campaign to organize Mercedes-Benz plant workers in Vance. The campaign, which failed in May, included t-shirts and advertisements improperly claiming affiliation with the universities. The universities issued cease and desist letters, and former Alabama football coach Nick Saban denounced the use of his likeness. The UAW agreed to destroy the infringing materials and admitted neither university endorsed their campaign.
6. The Birmingham Public Safety Advisory Committee, a citizens review
group in Birmingham aimed at providing independent oversight of police misconduct, has reviewed only three cases in three years, with only one proceeding without dismissal and they have no ability to review bodycam footage. But the gripe of some members, and the media, is that no one cares with few cases reported and minimal attendance at meetings despite efforts to promote the committee leading to a conclusion that this group is searching for a problem that may not exist.
5. Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon was taken into
custody Monday at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., to begin his four-month sentence for contempt charges after defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol riot, as Democrats complain about what President Donald Trump MIGHT do if elected. Upon surrendering, Bannon called himself a “political prisoner,” stated former President Trump was “very supportive” of him, and criticized Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice while crowds chanted to “Lock Him Up!”
4. Two of Alabama’s Democrat mayors have taken different
views on the disastrously terrible debate performance of President Joe Biden with Tuscaloosa’s Mayor Walt Maddox
argued it was a “disaster” that can not be forgotten while Montgomery Mayor’s Steven Reed
declared that it was no big
deal. Reed’s ability to look away from a horror show has been honed as the mayor’s refusal to deal with the crime in Alabama’s capital city and he believes the debate style caused the problem.
