Now the Whole State is Killing Time in the "Beason Line"

October 1, 2011 by Left in Alabama

Yesterday - September 30 - was the end of the month and a Friday, which meant that car tag renewal lines would be long.  But I was shocked when I passed the satellite office in Parkway Place Mall in Huntsville & saw over 70 people lined up.  The queue spilled out of the office, snaked down the hall, and blocked part of the Belk's store entrance.

I asked one woman near the front how long she'd been in line.  "Almost 3 hours," she said.  "This is a giant f@*kup."

When ADP chair Mark Kennedy spoke in Huntsville last month, he discussed the service cuts in Jefferson County due to Scott Beason killing the bill to preserve funding of county services.  Kennedy described plans to sell t-shirts to those in line:  "I MISSED WORK STANDING IN THE BEASON LINE." 

Now, every county in the state can feel Jefferson County's pain.  Thousands of Alabamians, it appears, got a taste of the "" yesterday while attempting to renew their car tags.

Henrietta Ward, a Birmingham resident who had been waiting in the line for almost four hours, said “We've got to prove who we are, and I was born and raised in the United States all my life right here in Birmingham.”

Here's the "Beason Line" in Hazel Green Meridianville:

No doubt Micky Hammon, Beason's "unintended consequences" partner in legislative crime will blame the delays on those lazy county employees. Pass the buck.  It's the GOP way.

But I'm betting the county employees dealing with this line in Huntsville yesterday were pretty exhausted by the end of the day.

So Beason, Hammon, Mo Brooks, etc. want to make us believe that "illegal immigration" is the biggest danger to the state of Alabama?  Many of those hapless citizens standing in Beason Lines yesterday might disagree.....