http://cfc.abc3340.com/videoondemand.cfm?id=46828

The Birmingham News is reporting that Birmingham Board of Education District 6 seat candidate, Antwon Womack, lied about his biography. On his campaign facebook page, Antwon claims he is 23 years old, but the News reports that his is only 21.

He also claims that he graduated from West End High School in 2005 and received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Alabama A&M in 2009. The News again disputes this saying he dropped out of Wenonah High School on Feb. 22, 2004, as a freshman.

“I’m currently in Fairfield, but that’s not permanent,” he said Monday evening. “It’s just until I get myself back up and going.”

Womack said he likely will drop out of the race “because when people read this, there’s no way I can win.”

“This is really going to hurt my political career, period,” Womack said. “It’s going to ruin my relationship with key people, like Carole Smitherman,” the City Council president.

I love how he drags the city council president into this.

On his personal facebook page, he is listed as Bishop Antwon Womack. On his campaign website, the Bishop claims he is a graduate of Brevard Community College in North Carolina.

Strangely, one of Bishop Womack’s campaign promises is that he will work to decrease the Birmingham Drop out Rate by offering alternative solutions to at risk students.

Womack says the incumbent Mr. Maye want even hold a community forum or town hall meeting to get interactive with District 6, because he can’t face the truth. Oh, the irony.

Tobais “Toby” Jones has created some pretty funny commercials for his storage and bbq businesses. I think he is located in the Chicago area. I love when he just starts tossing stuff over the fence.

He claims to store anything: Oscillating fans that don’t oscillate, tricycles, old video games, cars, model trains, antique silverware, antique anything. I wonder if he will franchise to the Magic City. We have lots of places to store junk.

He’s started a new venture: a BBQ restaurant where he will fry anything. He claims with his new Target credit card he put a down payment on an abandoned Chinese restaurant. “At Jones’ BBQ we make deliciously cooked food with class. We’ll fry anything, in any style and in any way. The only limit is my imagination and your stomach!” They offer: Alabama Free Range Biscuits, Homemade Soup Soaked Fries, Tossed Catfish, Beer Battered Bacon and more.

Note: There is some language in the commercials…

Storage commercial…

Another storage commercial…

New venture: BBQ restaurant and foot massage commercial…

Ernie Brown Jr., from Lebanon, KY calls himself, “Kentucky’s best-kept secret.” But really he’s just The Turtle Man, known for cleaning out Kentucky’s farm ponds plagued snapping turtles.

“Most people use cane poles, jugs, stakes and hooks.” Not The Turtle Man. He works only with his hands. He invented his method: Look “for (air) bubble trails, dive on top of
them, and it’s a tug of war from there.”

He has his own signature rebel yell and a “Snapper-licious” logo.

The most he’s caught in a season is 333 turtles and has been bit 17 times.

He lost his teeth in a chainsaw accident.

http://www.turtle-man.com/

This is a series of profiling candidates who are running for Birmingham’s (AL) City Council.*

It is without reservation that Festville endorses Willis “Buddy” Hendrix for Place 6 of the Birmingham City Council. The elections are slated for August 25th.

Born in 1926, Hendrix is an attorney and occassional political candidate. He has run unsuccessfully for mayor twice and the board of education once. In the last mayoral race, he garnered 41 of 52,111 votes cast, finishing last in the field of 10.

Buddy is the only candidate that I’ve seen that has embraced the Green movement. His signs use recycled cardboard which are really just cardboard coke flats stapled to power poles near his home and voting precinct. So he is doubly green.

In regards to the Dome stadium, Hendrix is opposed to it. In a 2007 Birmingham News interview, Buddy said, “No, it’s just a good venue for those seeking to tell untruths, from an unsuspecting audience.”

Hendrix fought a 16-year zoning battle with the city over his use of his West End property, where he once kept goats and chickens. He says government should stay out of residents’ business. 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 has suggested putting dams in the creeks that run through Birmingham so people can kayak. Also, he has said Disney officials have told him that Birmingham is an ideal location for a Disney amusement part.

Hendrix is a graduate of the Birmingham School of Law and a WWII veteran.

* Festville reserves the right not to profile any other candidates if none of them are worthy of Festville.

What happens when you go to get your personalized car tag and what you want is taken? And an alternative is taken? You improvise! I would think that option one for this vehicle was “BOSLADY” and option two was “BOSSLDY” but both were unavailable. So a little switch-a-roo and you have “BOSLAYD”. It’s worth noting that the individual driving wasn’t a lady but rather and man. However, you’ve worked hard for that tag…you deserve to be chauffeured around.

For Alabama residents, check tag availability before you wait in line.