The present constitution of Alabama constrains our ability to make the most sound financial movements with our dollars.
For instance, the Treasurer sits on the roads and bridges board and several industrial development boards.
One of the greatest flaws within our present Constitution is that we cannot use roads and bridges tax dollar for anything other than roads and bridges. For pavement, basically. We can't invest in mass transit. We can't use them for matching funds to get federal funds from the federal government.
It is monumentally inefficient for us to constrain ourselves that way. And how you undo that is through constitutional reform.
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Our constitution today was not written for our generation, whether you're conservative or liberal. It does not reflect our values.
The 1901 delegates did not value education. They did not value job growth. They did not have the same values that we have today, whether we're Democrats or Republicans.
This is our generation's opportunity to imprint on Alabama's future our values and where we want to go as a state. And so I believe the constitutional reform movement in Alabama would benefit by election officials - whether they by Republicans or Democrats - who do favor constitutional reform.
Sherer described how the present constitition constrains transportation funding and economic development and - even more important - doesn't refect modern values.
