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.