The cowardly caretaker junior senator from the great state of Alabama in an ill-fitting suit is at it again. Doug Jones is dishonestly taking credit for bringing a $1.6 billion dollar investment and thousands of jobs to North Alabama.
He claimed last week at a Democratic campaign rally, “Clearly if you get down to the bottom of it, that plant would not have come to Alabama with Roy Moore sitting as United States senator.”
The problem? He’s lying.
Sam Givhan, Madison County GOP chairman and candidate for state senate district 7, said on WVNN radio’s “The Dale Jackson Show” that this is just not true.
Partial transcript as follows:
GIVHAN: Well, first of all, there were two politicians in the room when we were negotiating: Tommy Battle and me. And I wasn’t there because I was a politician. I was there because I was paid to work for the city of Huntsville and there are a lot of people out there — I kind of get amused from all these advertisements going on about I did this or posturing here and there so and so did that. You know, Tommy Battle is the reason we get this work that we have. He has got a team together and we work together well. Industry can trust us and we were working on this way before anybody thought Doug Jones was gonna win this thing.
JACKSON: Weren’t you working on this before this race even took place?
GIVHAN: The background of this goes back to before … Bentley was governor.
When asked if the Japanese businessmen who run Toyota and Mazda made an issue of Roy Moore’s election, Givhan made it clear they were not worried about the state’s Federal leadership.
Partial transcript as follows:
JACKSON: Would they fear Roy Moore getting elected?
GIVHAN: I don’t know what the Japanes were thinking about that. We weren’t discussing local or statewide elections. We were discussing incentives.
JACKSON: Did Roy Moore come up at all? Did any guy come up to you and say, “Hey, what’s up with this Roy Moore guy?”
GIVHAN: No.
Jones can, if he wants, pretend that new investment to Alabama is because of him. He can, and will, run ads in 2020 taking credit for Alabama’s booming economy, which will be a nice switch for Alabama Democrats.
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@TheDaleJackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a conservative talk show from 7-11 am weekdays on WVNN
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