Festville will begin a series profiling the candidates running for the Mayor of Birmingham (AL).

Today we will feature, Willis Buddy Hendrix.

WBRC Fox 6 conducted a really nice interview with Buddy that you can watch here.

First, we’ll highlight some quotes from the mayoral debate that was held on Tuesday, September 18.

“I will help the people of Birmingham in you elect me governor.” Hendrix said. He later added, “I’d make our schools concentrate on teaching everything to everybody.”

“It’s up to you kids to do what you want to do,” Hendrix said. “Don’t go belly-aching down to city hall about it.”

And later, “There is no such thing as discrimination against race,” Hendricks said. “I’ve got many friends among colored people. I give them free plants and they give me free labor. There’s no discrimination out there. There’s no such thing.”

According to Buddy in the Fox 6 interview, he is a real-estate lawyer and a farmer. He has several very expensive plants which he marks on his land with fake roses that can be found on trash piles.

• He states that he is a full-time attorney and that’s what the city needs. He claims he lectures all over the world and is on the ethics committee for the United Nations.
• He claims there is no work or industries in Birmingham.
• Education is his hobby which includes wisdom and intellect. He has 5 earned degrees.
• About halfway through he asks if he is being recorded.
• He says the city has more inspectors than Carter has little liver pills.
• He’d like to see fruit trees planted in the city. He had planted fruit trees along his street, but the city cut them all down.
• He suggests putting dams in the creeks that run through Birmingham so people can kayak.
• Disney officials have told him that Birmingham is an ideal location for a Disney amusement part.

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