Sen. Phil Williams (R, La La Land) wants to take money from a community college (Gadsden State) to fund industrial development and drug enforcement. House Minority Leader Craig Ford calls that idea "psychotic" and "insane."
If a way exists to get funding for Gadsden State, Ford said, that needs to done first.
“We don't need to take money from Gadsden State and then tell them a year from now they'll get money in return,” he said. “Go ahead and put that legislation in place. Then we'll look at something down the road.”
Yes, stealing from the education budget to pay for other things the state needs to do is insane and psychotic. The argument that you should find adequate money for education before you divert tax dollars earmarked for schools to industrial recruitment and other services like drug enforcement or prisons is one Democrats should be making every chance they get.
Education is a long term investment, the best possible investment to attract good jobs to Alabama and, coincidentally, reduce the need for more prisons down the road. Why did 6 House Democrats, including Craig Ford, find it so hard to make this argument last week when they voted to take millions from the education budget to fund ... industrial development?
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Sen. Phil Williams (R, La La Land) wants to take money from a community college (Gadsden State) to fund industrial development and drug enforcement. House Minority Leader 
